Past Events

Expungement Clinic- Waianae Public Library

We would like to extend a huge mahalo to all of our community partners for the successful Expungement and Bench Warrant Recall Clinic at the Waianae Library on September 28.

September 28, 2024

Natural Law in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Executive Director of ACLU Hawaiʻi, Salmah Y. Rizvi, gives a lecture at Mindful Hawaii entitled: “Natural Law & Human Spirituality in the Modern Civil Rights Movement”.

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July 28, 2024

Know Your Rights: Students Free Speech Lecture

The ACLU of Hawai‘i organized an educational presentation for students and activists who wanted to know more about exercising constitutional rights to free speech and when/how public institutions can restrict speech. 

April 10, 2024

Interfaith Iftar 2024

In partnership with the Hawai'i Bestuin, the ACLU of Hawai'i held the first Iftar Dinner in ACLU history, along with an Interfaith Community Town Hall.

April 2, 2024

Hawai‘i Homebirth Collective Press Conference

This event was held at  at the Hawai‘i State Capitol by community activists and legislators to highlight the dangers of Hawaii’s MidwiferyRestriction Law (Act 32, HRS 457-J) - an unconstitutional law that criminalizes practitioners of midwifery, as well as postpartum healers who are unlicensed.

February 29, 2024

Lobby Week 2021

In early 2020, we brought community members from all over the neighbor islands together to meet our lawmakers and tell our stories. With your tireless backing, we have advocated for bills that will decriminalize poverty, reimagine policing, and move our state towards smart justice.

March 15, 2021 to
March 19, 2021

ACLU of Hawai‘i (virtual) Advocacy Training

Join us for our digital advocacy training. You will hear from ACLU of Hawai‘i Field Organizer, Shayna Lonoaea-Alxander, about what we need to accomplish in the 2021 legislative session. We have work to do on criminal justice reform, reproductive rights, and ending police violence.

February 6, 2021