What We Do At The ACLU, Told By Our Kids

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🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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For a special year-end holiday episode, we decided to ask some ACLU staff to have a conversation with their kids about the work they do. On this episode, you’ll hear kids learn about gerrymandering, how we inform legislation, the Keystone XL Pipeline and what kinds of snacks we keep nearby. Thanks for all of your support in 2019! We have some great conversations to share in the new year.

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0:00.0	From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.
0:09.0	I'm Emerson Sykes.
0:10.8	Hey, no, I'm Emerson Sykes.
0:13.0	I'm a staff attorney at the ACLU and the hosts.
0:16.5	And how do we know each other?
0:18.5	Because you're my coach.
0:20.6	And your dad.
0:27.9	This week, we have a special holiday episode featuring some of the most important people in our lives, our kids.
0:34.0	We've asked some of my ACLU colleagues to have conversations with their kids about the work they do.
0:39.3	The results were insightful and entertaining.
0:42.0	In fact, this could be a great episode to listen to with the whole family.
0:45.4	Hope you enjoy.
0:48.2	What do you think the ACLU does?
0:50.7	I think that you help people who don't really have the chance to get their voices heard, and I think you sue people too.
1:01.0	What do you think your mom does at work all day? She fills out paperwork and does a bunch of phone calls and tries to make things equal for everybody.
1:11.6	She saves people.
1:13.6	What do you think your daddy does all day at work?
1:16.6	Work so the world can have their choices.
1:22.6	I think that you do homework.
1:29.6	You also try to help people.
1:32.3	Fight Trump.
1:34.1	Works on the computer, talks with people, and fight lots.
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