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THE NEXT GENERATION All of the work detailed in this report would not be possible without the full weight of the ACLU community.
We believe it is not about the few—but the many.
Ph ot o co ur te sy o f K im L ew whose founders care deeply about the ACLU’s racial justice mission.
Lew’s experiences with the ACLU have deepened her appreciation for the organization, an enthusiasm shared by her daughters Kalli and Kaamila, who have both eagerly taken up the torch for the next generation.
As a high school student, Kalli attended the ACLU’s National Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C.
That experience led to an internship at the ACLU’s national office the following summer, where she was thrilled to meet the lawyers behind the important cases of the day.
Now a senior at Wesleyan University, Kalli plans to apply for law school.
Kalli’s younger sister, Kaamila, who just entered high school, similarly “has a very strong moral compass,” says Lew, recalling a recent discussion on the importance of addressing people by their correct pronouns.
She credits much of her daughters’ passionate views on social justice to her late husband, Virgil Jackson, who died of cancer in 2020.
He “had a lot of moral indignation” over race and gender issues and encouraged debate and discussion at the family dinner table.
When Kalli left for college, Lew recalls, her husband told Kaamila it was her turn to lead the conversation.
“The legacy of who their father was lives loudly in them,” Lew says with pride.
That legacy endures in the family’s dedication to the ACLU.
But it was the unique eulogy written by his three adult children, Jeanne, George, and Liz, that perhaps best captured the indefatigable spirit behind their father’s storied accomplishments.
The eulogy lovingly and humorously compiled a list of including: #28, Vote in every election; #58, Civil liberties require defending; and #70, Prioritize the next generation.
In considering how to honor their father’s legacy, #minds.
That’s what led to the establishment of an ACLU college internship in their father’s name.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY The ACLU is composed of two organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union (the 501(c)(4) arm), whose focus is legislative work at the federal and state levels; and the ACLU Foundation (the 501(c)(3) arm), whose focus is litigation and public education.
well as the ACLU Foundation and subsidiary (page ending March 31, 2021, and March 31, 2020.
ACLU affiliates are not included in these financial statements.
You can defend and advance civil liberties by donating to either the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) or the ACLU Foundation.
Gifts to the ACLU support our legislative work at the federal and local level and are not tax deductible.
Gifts to the Foundation are tax deductible and support our litigation, communications, and public education efforts.
For more information about supporting the ACLU through your will, trust, or retirement plan, please contact our Gift Planning Office at (aclu.org/legacy.
up for the principles of equality, justice, liberty, and democracy.
GET INVOLVED People Power is the ACLU’s platform for grassroots action.
Get involved with People Power in your area by visiting peoplepower.org.
Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.
VISION Rainforest Action Network works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
Without question, the need to rally and combat the climate crisis is more urgent than ever.
And while difficult for environmental organizing as the pandemic continues to impact the world, it has equally offered us opportunities to innovate, adapt, and secure milestone achievements across our campaigns.
That’s because at RAN, we don’t do what is considered politically or logistically feasible, we do what is necessary.
This year we saw new climate commitments — albeit weak ones — from key target banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
We watched one of the biggest insurance companies in the world, Chubb, share that it is not providing insurance coverage for any tar sands projects.
We witnessed three massive brands, Unilever, ColgatePalmolive and Nestle, publicly respond to our Keep Forests Standing campaign by releasing their forest footprints, acknowledging their destructive impact.
And this past summer, after over a year of lockdowns, I was honored to be back on the frontlines in solidarity with hundreds of water protectors on Anishinaabe land in northern Minnesota.
For ten hours I was locked to Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline as it underwent active construction.
I ended up being extracted and detained and spent the night in the county jail with other activists.
It gave me a lot of time to reflect on the important role that RAN has played in the resistance for over thirty-five years, and to think critically about where we are going.
Always, it comes back to our mission: We will preserve the rainforests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights.
It may not be easy, but it is that simple.
Preserve the Rainforests Tropical forests are one of our best natural solutions against the climate crisis, but big corporations continue to profit from their destruction.
ecosystems and Indigenous territories must adopt and enforce policies to keep forests standing and uphold rights, immediately.
Protect the Climate This year we saw finance take center stage in the discussions at the global UN climate summit, COP26.
To halt the worst of the climate crisis we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground — and in order to do so, banks and insurers must immediately cut off the money pipeline supporting fossil fuel expansion.
That’s why RAN has been leading the way with our cutting-edge data analysis and reporting on the worst financiers of climate chaos.
And with the support of our network, we will continue to put our energy into outing and pressuring the corporations fueling the crisis.
Uphold Human Rights The recognition of the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples to decide what happens in their own territories is crucial and urgent.
Indigenous water protectors, pipeline fighters and many other grassroots organizations are dedicating themselves to defending land rights.
The IPCC has confirmed that strong and organized local and Indigenous communities are a key defense against deforestation and ecological collapse.
As headlines for the last several months have recounted one climate disaster after the other, securing the systemic change that is urgently needed sometimes feels like an impossible task.
But when I think on the incredible movement we have seen this year, in spite of the challenges we faced, I feel a renewed sense of hope and determination, and commitment to doing what is necessary.
We are all on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been challenging the expansion of the fossil fuel sector any way we can — even through the challenging times of a global pandemic.
But RAN, our partners and our community of supporters have shown up in force, peacefully and safely.
In early June, the entire RAN Organizing Team was on the ground for the Treaty Peoples’ Gathering in Northern Minnesota to stand in opposition to the Line 3 pipeline.
fighting to protect their water, their community and our future.
action, locking down to the pipeline and temporarily halting construction.
from our Community Action Grants program to frontline organizations, such as the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women-led effort to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line group supporting resistance to the pipeline.
There is simply no form of climate leadership compatible with support for this pipeline and we continue to call on elected officials to drop charges against peaceful protestors and to reverse this climate disaster.
Slices through hundreds of sensitive rivers and waterways at the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
» Illegally cuts through Indigenous treaty lands and waters.
75,700 Active Donors 90,000 Twitter Followers 435,000 Facebook Followers RAN supporters took 850,000 urgent actions in the last year.
RAN only has a staff of 50 people stationed across the globe, but we have always had a major impact thanks to our network of supporters, which includes people from all 50 states, and 151 countries on every continent except Antarctica.
“Net Zero by private sector players in the lead up to COP26.
However by carbon emissions may have already reached levels that could spark catastrophic impacts.
Far too often, false solutions like carbon offsets or climate goals set decades in the future are simply used to delay real and meaningful action.
RAN sent a delegation of staff members to Glasgow with this message: We need action now.
We must reduce emissions to as close to zero as possible as soon as possible.
With fossil fuels as the main contributor to global emissions, this means corporate and government net zero commitments cannot be taken seriously without an immediate end to fossil fuel expansion and a clear and actionable plan to phase out fossil fuels overall as quickly as possible.
Protecting forests, which act as carbon sinks and maximize carbon removal from the atmosphere, is also one of the cheapest and fastest means of reducing emissions.
Net zero commitments from global brands cannot be taken seriously without proof of an immediate end to the expansion of industrial logging, monoculture plantations and livestock ranches into forests and other natural ecosystems in their supply chains.
fossil fuels are extracted and burned, massive amounts of greenhouse gasses are released into our atmosphere.
And the very forests and peatlands that serve as carbon sinks are not only destroyed, but instead release CO2, contributing to the rise in temperatures.
Our planet needs a climate deal that holds corporations and financial institutions accountable for their contribution to these existential threats.
Even the conservative International Energy Agency has made it clear that in order to salvage a livable future, countries should end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and stop fossil fuel subsidies.
And yet, Wall Street and banks around the globe continue to pump billions into the fossil fuel sector.
In March and the fossil fuel sector, Banking on Climate Chaos — the most comprehensive report of its kind.
We found an alarming if unsurprising disconnect between the global scientific consensus on climate change and the continued practices of the world’s largest financial institutions — the world’s have poured $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement.
To make matters worse, over the past five years these banks pumped $ sector.
and Sierra Club, and is endorsed by over organizations from 50 countries around the world.
drivers of emissions in remaining the world’s worst fossil bank.
From through 2020, Chase’s lending and underwriting activities have provided nearly $317 billion to fossil fuels.
But the numbers don’t lie — and they don’t add up to the empty promises by these banks.
Commitments for point climate delay equals climate denialism.
That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been pressuring insurance companies to stop insuring disastrous fossil fuel projects that are threatening the very future of our planet.
Activists took to the streets in dozens of actions at insurance offices across four continents as part of the “Stop Insuring Trans Mountain” week of action, many thousands signed petitions and sent emails, and hundreds have made phone calls to insurance executives.
largest insurance companies in the world, became the sixteenth insurer to rule out support for the Trans Mountain pipeline — including five in the past year alone.
This milestone comes after a lot of hard work as RAN’s insurance team coordinated a pressure campaign targeting the insurance backers of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline.
This past April, we also escalated our campaign to pressure insurance giant Liberty Mutual around the corporation’s annual meeting.
In the lead up, we delivered via billboard truck to make sure that they got the message to stop insuring fossil fuels.
Liberty Mutual spends $435 million on advertisements each year.
What their ads don’t say is that they are a top fossil fuel insurer, backing tar sands pipelines, coal mines, and oil and fracked gas extraction that is polluting communities and fueling climate destruction globally.
to meet from Indigenous leaders and frontline communities impacted by its insurance and investment practices — and have hardly changed their practices.
In a scorecard report just released evaluating the climate progress of ranked #20 on fossil fuel insurance, #14 on fossil fuel investing, and tied for last on other climate leadership.
That’s why we wanted to set the record straight on Liberty Mutual’s climate and human rights policies.
In financing going into deforestation across all three tropical forest basins.
Tropical deforestation and degradation contribute up to greenhouse gas emissions.
This is largely due to the burning and bulldozing of forests and peatlands for palm oil plantations, pulp and paper production, or for the rubber, timber, soy, and beef industries.
Our goal is to challenge the social and market license for those financing toxic and destructive industries and to pull back the curtain on those profiting from climate chaos.

THE NEXT GENERATION All of the work detailed in this report would not be possible without the full weight of the ACLU community.

We believe it is not about the few—but the many.

Ph ot o co ur te sy o f K im L ew whose founders care deeply about the ACLU’s racial justice mission.

Lew’s experiences with the ACLU have deepened her appreciation for the organization, an enthusiasm shared by her daughters Kalli and Kaamila, who have both eagerly taken up the torch for the next generation.

As a high school student, Kalli attended the ACLU’s National Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C.

That experience led to an internship at the ACLU’s national office the following summer, where she was thrilled to meet the lawyers behind the important cases of the day.

Now a senior at Wesleyan University, Kalli plans to apply for law school.

Kalli’s younger sister, Kaamila, who just entered high school, similarly “has a very strong moral compass,” says Lew, recalling a recent discussion on the importance of addressing people by their correct pronouns.

She credits much of her daughters’ passionate views on social justice to her late husband, Virgil Jackson, who died of cancer in 2020.

He “had a lot of moral indignation” over race and gender issues and encouraged debate and discussion at the family dinner table.

When Kalli left for college, Lew recalls, her husband told Kaamila it was her turn to lead the conversation.

“The legacy of who their father was lives loudly in them,” Lew says with pride.

That legacy endures in the family’s dedication to the ACLU.

But it was the unique eulogy written by his three adult children, Jeanne, George, and Liz, that perhaps best captured the indefatigable spirit behind their father’s storied accomplishments.

The eulogy lovingly and humorously compiled a list of including: #28, Vote in every election; #58, Civil liberties require defending; and #70, Prioritize the next generation.

In considering how to honor their father’s legacy, #minds.

That’s what led to the establishment of an ACLU college internship in their father’s name.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY The ACLU is composed of two organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union (the 501(c)(4) arm), whose focus is legislative work at the federal and state levels; and the ACLU Foundation (the 501(c)(3) arm), whose focus is litigation and public education.

well as the ACLU Foundation and subsidiary (page ending March 31, 2021, and March 31, 2020.

ACLU affiliates are not included in these financial statements.

You can defend and advance civil liberties by donating to either the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) or the ACLU Foundation.

Gifts to the ACLU support our legislative work at the federal and local level and are not tax deductible.

Gifts to the Foundation are tax deductible and support our litigation, communications, and public education efforts.

For more information about supporting the ACLU through your will, trust, or retirement plan, please contact our Gift Planning Office at (aclu.org/legacy.

up for the principles of equality, justice, liberty, and democracy.

GET INVOLVED People Power is the ACLU’s platform for grassroots action.

Get involved with People Power in your area by visiting peoplepower.org.

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

VISION Rainforest Action Network works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Without question, the need to rally and combat the climate crisis is more urgent than ever.

And while difficult for environmental organizing as the pandemic continues to impact the world, it has equally offered us opportunities to innovate, adapt, and secure milestone achievements across our campaigns.

That’s because at RAN, we don’t do what is considered politically or logistically feasible, we do what is necessary.

This year we saw new climate commitments — albeit weak ones — from key target banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

We watched one of the biggest insurance companies in the world, Chubb, share that it is not providing insurance coverage for any tar sands projects.

We witnessed three massive brands, Unilever, ColgatePalmolive and Nestle, publicly respond to our Keep Forests Standing campaign by releasing their forest footprints, acknowledging their destructive impact.

And this past summer, after over a year of lockdowns, I was honored to be back on the frontlines in solidarity with hundreds of water protectors on Anishinaabe land in northern Minnesota.

For ten hours I was locked to Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline as it underwent active construction.

I ended up being extracted and detained and spent the night in the county jail with other activists.

It gave me a lot of time to reflect on the important role that RAN has played in the resistance for over thirty-five years, and to think critically about where we are going.

Always, it comes back to our mission: We will preserve the rainforests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights.

It may not be easy, but it is that simple.

Preserve the Rainforests Tropical forests are one of our best natural solutions against the climate crisis, but big corporations continue to profit from their destruction.

ecosystems and Indigenous territories must adopt and enforce policies to keep forests standing and uphold rights, immediately.

Protect the Climate This year we saw finance take center stage in the discussions at the global UN climate summit, COP26.

To halt the worst of the climate crisis we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground — and in order to do so, banks and insurers must immediately cut off the money pipeline supporting fossil fuel expansion.

That’s why RAN has been leading the way with our cutting-edge data analysis and reporting on the worst financiers of climate chaos.

And with the support of our network, we will continue to put our energy into outing and pressuring the corporations fueling the crisis.

Uphold Human Rights The recognition of the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples to decide what happens in their own territories is crucial and urgent.

Indigenous water protectors, pipeline fighters and many other grassroots organizations are dedicating themselves to defending land rights.

The IPCC has confirmed that strong and organized local and Indigenous communities are a key defense against deforestation and ecological collapse.

As headlines for the last several months have recounted one climate disaster after the other, securing the systemic change that is urgently needed sometimes feels like an impossible task.

But when I think on the incredible movement we have seen this year, in spite of the challenges we faced, I feel a renewed sense of hope and determination, and commitment to doing what is necessary.

We are all on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been challenging the expansion of the fossil fuel sector any way we can — even through the challenging times of a global pandemic.

But RAN, our partners and our community of supporters have shown up in force, peacefully and safely.

In early June, the entire RAN Organizing Team was on the ground for the Treaty Peoples’ Gathering in Northern Minnesota to stand in opposition to the Line 3 pipeline.

fighting to protect their water, their community and our future.

action, locking down to the pipeline and temporarily halting construction.

from our Community Action Grants program to frontline organizations, such as the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women-led effort to protect Anishinaabe territory from the destruction of Enbridge’s Line group supporting resistance to the pipeline.

There is simply no form of climate leadership compatible with support for this pipeline and we continue to call on elected officials to drop charges against peaceful protestors and to reverse this climate disaster.

Slices through hundreds of sensitive rivers and waterways at the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

» Illegally cuts through Indigenous treaty lands and waters.

75,700 Active Donors 90,000 Twitter Followers 435,000 Facebook Followers RAN supporters took 850,000 urgent actions in the last year.

RAN only has a staff of 50 people stationed across the globe, but we have always had a major impact thanks to our network of supporters, which includes people from all 50 states, and 151 countries on every continent except Antarctica.

“Net Zero by private sector players in the lead up to COP26.

However by carbon emissions may have already reached levels that could spark catastrophic impacts.

Far too often, false solutions like carbon offsets or climate goals set decades in the future are simply used to delay real and meaningful action.

RAN sent a delegation of staff members to Glasgow with this message: We need action now.

We must reduce emissions to as close to zero as possible as soon as possible.

With fossil fuels as the main contributor to global emissions, this means corporate and government net zero commitments cannot be taken seriously without an immediate end to fossil fuel expansion and a clear and actionable plan to phase out fossil fuels overall as quickly as possible.

Protecting forests, which act as carbon sinks and maximize carbon removal from the atmosphere, is also one of the cheapest and fastest means of reducing emissions.

Net zero commitments from global brands cannot be taken seriously without proof of an immediate end to the expansion of industrial logging, monoculture plantations and livestock ranches into forests and other natural ecosystems in their supply chains.

fossil fuels are extracted and burned, massive amounts of greenhouse gasses are released into our atmosphere.

And the very forests and peatlands that serve as carbon sinks are not only destroyed, but instead release CO2, contributing to the rise in temperatures.

Our planet needs a climate deal that holds corporations and financial institutions accountable for their contribution to these existential threats.

Even the conservative International Energy Agency has made it clear that in order to salvage a livable future, countries should end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and stop fossil fuel subsidies.

And yet, Wall Street and banks around the globe continue to pump billions into the fossil fuel sector.

In March and the fossil fuel sector, Banking on Climate Chaos — the most comprehensive report of its kind.

We found an alarming if unsurprising disconnect between the global scientific consensus on climate change and the continued practices of the world’s largest financial institutions — the world’s have poured $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement.

To make matters worse, over the past five years these banks pumped $ sector.

and Sierra Club, and is endorsed by over organizations from 50 countries around the world.

drivers of emissions in remaining the world’s worst fossil bank.

From through 2020, Chase’s lending and underwriting activities have provided nearly $317 billion to fossil fuels.

But the numbers don’t lie — and they don’t add up to the empty promises by these banks.

Commitments for point climate delay equals climate denialism.

That’s why Rainforest Action Network has been pressuring insurance companies to stop insuring disastrous fossil fuel projects that are threatening the very future of our planet.

Activists took to the streets in dozens of actions at insurance offices across four continents as part of the “Stop Insuring Trans Mountain” week of action, many thousands signed petitions and sent emails, and hundreds have made phone calls to insurance executives.

largest insurance companies in the world, became the sixteenth insurer to rule out support for the Trans Mountain pipeline — including five in the past year alone.

This milestone comes after a lot of hard work as RAN’s insurance team coordinated a pressure campaign targeting the insurance backers of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline.

This past April, we also escalated our campaign to pressure insurance giant Liberty Mutual around the corporation’s annual meeting.

In the lead up, we delivered via billboard truck to make sure that they got the message to stop insuring fossil fuels.

Liberty Mutual spends $435 million on advertisements each year.

What their ads don’t say is that they are a top fossil fuel insurer, backing tar sands pipelines, coal mines, and oil and fracked gas extraction that is polluting communities and fueling climate destruction globally.

to meet from Indigenous leaders and frontline communities impacted by its insurance and investment practices — and have hardly changed their practices.

In a scorecard report just released evaluating the climate progress of ranked #20 on fossil fuel insurance, #14 on fossil fuel investing, and tied for last on other climate leadership.

That’s why we wanted to set the record straight on Liberty Mutual’s climate and human rights policies.

In financing going into deforestation across all three tropical forest basins.

Tropical deforestation and degradation contribute up to greenhouse gas emissions.

This is largely due to the burning and bulldozing of forests and peatlands for palm oil plantations, pulp and paper production, or for the rubber, timber, soy, and beef industries.

Our goal is to challenge the social and market license for those financing toxic and destructive industries and to pull back the curtain on those profiting from climate chaos.