Has anybody here ever volunteered for the ACLU?

[Pushed To The Left]

An office just opened up out here, and they are looking for volunteers. What kind of volunteer work do they usually do? I don't know when I would have a chance, but the words of O'Reilly and the right wing are really pushing me to want to help out more.

[realisticphish]

1. Well

I am a member of my campus ACLU, and we organize events, mostly. I think that probably a lot of ACLU volunteers are office work, etc, since a large majority of the work is legal

[Coastie for Truth]

2. Three kinds of volunteer work

1. "Events" and "Membership" - fund raisers

2. "Office Work" (Including PR)

3. Legal
Legal
Legal
Legal

*Paralegal (library and on-line research)
*Legal (always looking for lawyers, law students -- free "pro bono" of course)

[newswolf56]

3. Have belonged to ACLU for decades and whenever asked...

contribute by writing letters and formal statements, the latter typically submitted as testimony during public hearings in defense of the First Amendment. With the amendment's guarantees under attack not only from Fundamentalists but from authoritarian feminists as well, such controversies are increasingly common at the local-government level, and ACLU surely needs all the help it can get. If you are a good writer or a competent editor -- especially someone adept at crafting compelling arguments -- your skills will always be useful to the ACLU: I'd merely phone the new office, describe what you can do and ask if they need your particular offerings.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I would volunteer for them in a heartbeat as long as I can decide

where I can work, and for whom.

I was born to be a whistleblower, which is why I'm not marketable for these times.