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• ACLU Advises University General Counsels on Legal Limits on ICE’s Authority
  The American Civil Liberties Union this week shared an open letter to general counsels at colleges and universities across the nation outlining their responsibilities and rights when dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations and enforcement actions.Amid the growing retaliatory crackdown against noncitizen students for their First Amendment-protected speech and advocacy, the open letter […]
• Home Growns Are Next
  In a "breathtaking departure from the rule of law" - and facing multiple legal routs - Trump and his fascist flunkies continue to lie, stall and gaslight on their right to disappear a Maryland sheet metal worker and other brown-skinned migrants to an El Salvador gulag with zero evidence of wrongdoing, even as ICE Gestapo […]
• Over 30 Scholars of Antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish History Challenge Trump’s Attack on Free Speech
  Over 32 prominent Jewish scholars of antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish History today challenged the Trump administration’s authoritarian crackdown on free speech by demonstrating the danger and falsehood of its false claims to care about Jewish safety. The Trump administration uses the guise of fighting antisemitism in order to attack the Palestinian rights movement and […]
• USA: Google must move to a rights respecting approach after court declares its Adtech function a monopoly
  Responding to a US court ruling declaring Google’s online advertising monopoly illegal, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “A rights respecting break-up of Google’s monopolistic hold could be an important first step towards an online world that respects human rights. By eroding the dominance of a single corporation and weakening Google’s control over […]
• AFT’s Weingarten on Florida State Shooting
  AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after a mass shooting today at Florida State University, following other incidents this week in Dallas and San Antonio. One of the people injured was a member of United Faculty of Florida, which is affiliated nationally with the AFT.“This is the third incident of devastating gun violence […]
• Google’s Illegal Internet Ad Monopoly Blunts America’s Competitive Edge in Tech
  On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Google maintains an illegal online advertising monopoly. The internet search megacompany faces another court date soon to determine remedies after another federal judge ruled last fall that it broke the law by maintaining an illegal monopoly over online searches. Demand Progress Education Fund previously joined a letter asking […]