Syndicated Stories Amnesty International 0
For years I have felt great apprehension and uneasiness whenever I visited Sudan, my home country. Not this time. As I touched down in Khartoum airport ten days after the deposition of Omar al-Bashir, I felt a connection to the land that I had forgotten. Instead of fear for my family, I felt a newfound […]
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Mueller Report House Members Begin Public Reading of Mueller Report Members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA, @RepMGS), have begun a public reading of the Muller Report. The reading is being broadcast live on C-SPAN. EPIC (@EPICprivacy) sued the Department of Justice for the release of the full, unredacted […]
Syndicated Stories Cool Green Science, Nature.org 0
Conservationists across the United States celebrated in February when a massive public lands package was signed into law. It reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund. It protected more than a million new acres of wilderness. It added three national parks. But one item was often overlooked in the flood of good conservation news: The […]
Syndicated Stories Human Rights Campaign 0
TODAY — HOUSE POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH FIRST-EVER CONGRESSIONAL VOTE ON THE EQUALITY ACT: Ahead of this historic vote for LGBTQ civil rights, the coalition to pass the Equality Act hand-delivered petitions signed by over 168,812 Americans to original sponsor Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) urging Congress to pass H.R. 5. The measure has unprecedented […]
Syndicated Stories Radio Liberty 0
If you write a book in Manx Gaelic, a Celtic language thought dead until recently, you can use Amazon’s self-publishing service to get your book to the estimated 1,800 people who can read and speak Manx, most of them on the Isle of Man. If you write in Persian, on the other hand, a language […]
Syndicated Stories Electronic Frontier Foundation 0
It has taken more than a year, but the California Attorney General’s Office has implemented steps to protect immigrants from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies that abuse the state’s public safety network, the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS). Following calls for reform from EFF and immigrant rights advocacy groups, the Attorney […]
Syndicated Stories Environmental Working Group 0
Friday, May 17, 2019 Soren Rundquist, Director of Spatial Analysis In the summer, millions of lush green acres of corn and soybeans blanket the Midwest. Come fall, many harvesters scrape crop fields until they are black and barren, exposing large swaths of vulnerable land to heavy rains, melting snow and powerful winds. Until the following […]
Syndicated Stories American Civil Liberties Union 0
On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal and state governments’ disregard for protecting the right to counsel for people charged with crimes. She did so by introducing the Ensuring Quality Access to Legal Defense Act (EQUAL Defense Act) a bill that uses federal money – $250 million dollars annually for […]
Syndicated Stories Friends of the Earth 0
Home News Releases United Shareholders, Customers and Concerned Citizens call on Dominion to Embrace Change Now May 7, 2019 COLUMBIA, S.C. – A diverse coalition today called on Dominion Energy to take concrete and meaningful actions to address climate change and help low-income families reduce their bills through increased efficiency. The coalition, which includes Friends […]
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Friday the Washington Post published an essay by Gregory Jaczko, who served on America’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005 to 2009 and was its chairman from 2009 to 2012. He says he’d believed nuclear power was worth the reduction they produced in greenhouse emissions — until Japan’s 2011 nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant. […]
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“The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor,” reports the Associated Press: Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology highlighted the April 2017 episode in “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” a report on what it […]
Syndicated Stories Amnesty International 0
The arbitrary detention of labour rights lawyer, Haytham Mohamdeen, and former political activist, Mostafa Maher, this week has raised fears that the Egyptian authorities might be embarking on a fresh crackdown targeting peaceful dissent or individuals with history of activism, said Amnesty International. “These latest arrests have reignited a climate of fear amongst independent activists […]
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data protection EPIC Calls for Suspension of White House Data Collection on Social Media Use EPIC has sent a letter to President Trump, urging the White House to suspend the collection of personal data concerning the use of social media. The White House is seeking to collect detailed personal information including unique social profile names […]
Syndicated Stories Friends of the Earth 0
Home News Releases Senate Confirmation of Export-Import Bank Directors Means Billions More Dollars in Federal Fossil Fuel Financing May 8, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm three nominees to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The confirmation allows Ex-Im to establish a board quorum, clearing the way […]
Syndicated Stories Radio Liberty 0
Most politicians can’t be seen enough when running for office. Delyan Peevski isn’t most politicians. The Bulgarian multimillionaire hasn’t made a public appearance since April 19, 2017, when he attended the first meeting of that Balkan country’s current National Assembly after being elected as a lawmaker. Now Bulgaria’s purportedly “undisputed media mogul” appears headed to […]
Syndicated Stories Human Rights Campaign 0
HRC hailed the historic passage of the Equality Act by the U.S. House of Representatives, the first time a chamber of Congress has approved a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill. The crucially important, bipartisan legislation will finally provide clear, comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people across the country in employment, housing, public spaces, education, jury […]
Syndicated Stories American Civil Liberties Union 0
In cities and towns across New York state — and around the country — you can be evicted just for calling for police or emergency assistance. Fortunately, that’s about to change in New York. The State Legislature recently passed a bill — unanimously in the Assembly and 58 to 1 in the Senate — to […]
Syndicated Stories Environmental Working Group 0
For Immediate Release: Friday, May 17, 2019 WASHINGTON – A bill introduced today in Congress would ban the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS from use in a primary source of exposure to the compounds. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) introduced the “Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019.” The act would ban the […]
Syndicated Stories Center for Democracy and Technology 0
CDT’s Tech Talk is a podcast where we dish on tech and Internet policy, while also explaining what these policies mean to our daily lives. You can find Tech Talk on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Play, as well as Stitcher and TuneIn. Did you miss CDT’s Tech Prom? Fear not – in this episode of Tech Talk we are bringing it to […]
Syndicated Stories Electronic Frontier Foundation 0
When social media platforms enforce their content moderation rules unfairly, it affects everyone’s ability to speak out online. Unfair and inconsistent online censorship magnifies existing power imbalances, giving people who already have the least power in society fewer places where they are allowed a voice online. President Donald Trump and some members of Congress have […]