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ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights- litigating, legislating and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States. The mission of the ACLU is to assure that the Bill of Rights - amendments to the Constitution that guard against unwarranted governmental control - are preserved for each new generation. The ACLU is a 50-state network of staffed affiliate offices in most major cities, more than 300 chapters in smaller towns, and regional offices in Denver and Atlanta. Work is coordinated by a national office in New York, aided by a legislative office in Washington that lobbies Congress. The ACLU has more than a dozen national projects devoted to specific civil liberties issues such as: AIDS, arts censorship, capital punishment, children's rights, education reform, lesbian and gay rights, immigrant's rights, national security, privacy and technology, prisoners' rights, reproductive freedom, voting rights, women's rights, and workplace rights. LAST UPDATED: 7/14/2003.