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Monday March 18, 2013
We’ve written a number of times about the lack of transparency around the administration’s drone policy and its constitutional implications. As the administration continues to face scrutiny for its use of drones abroad, state legislators are introducing legislation to combat the use of drone surveillance domestically. More than twenty state, including New Jersey , have considered creating laws that would limit or ban the use of unmanned aerial systems, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Read More »
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Thursday December 20, 2012
Lawmakers from the Senate and House met in a closed-conference and released the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report Tuesday night, whereby conferees re-inserted language in the bill that allows for the indefinite detention of Americans without charge or trial. The NDAA is unconstitutional and un-American. Tell your Representative to say NO to indefinite detentions and vote NO on the NDAA! To close the Guantanamo prison was a hallmark of the President’s 2008 campaign. Urge the President to VETO the 2013 NDAA and tell him that he campaigned on the promise of a renewed commitment to the rule of law, and by signing the Defense bill, he will not be able to fulfill his commitment to closing the infamous detention center in Guantanamo once and for all. Read More »
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Friday December 14, 2012
On its last day in session, the Michigan Legislature will not be voting on an “anti-Sharia” law. While it is troubling that we continue to deal with these initiatives (spearheaded by David Yerushalmi, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center and “the man behind the anti-Sharia movement”), it is good news that the bill didn't make it to the floor. Read More »
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Friday December 14, 2012
The bill in its current form not only discriminates on the application of the Due Process Clause afforded to immigrant communities but also makes it exceedingly difficult for the President to live up to his promise of once and for all closing the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center. Read More »
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Wednesday June 13, 2012
A few weeks ago, we wrote about two legislative efforts to impose independent oversight on the NYPD. The New York City Police Department is currently the only New York City agency without an independent Inspector General. At the City level, two City Council Members are introducing legislation today to change that. If the measure passes (34 out of 51 votes plus the support of the City Council Speaker are needed to push the bill through without opposition), the NYPD will have to answer to an independent Inspector General who would in turn make regular reports to the public. Read More »
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Tuesday May 15, 2012
The tide is finally turning against racial profiling and Islamophobia, but it won’t happen without your help. Read More »
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Thursday March 22, 2012
In the four events, I spoke to over 400. We signed hundreds of letters of concern to local Congresssmen and Senators, developed strategies to pass an anti-war plank and a Palestinian rights plank at the Iowa State Democratic Convention, and mapped out a plan to lobby Congressmen to sign onto Congresswoman Barbara Lee's House Resolution promoting negotiations and not war as the way to resolve tensions with Iran. Read More »
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Wednesday February 29, 2012
Yesterday, the Florida Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Subcommittee pushed through SB1360, the Sunshine State’s own anti-Sharia bill in a 5-2 vote. The next step is a vote by the full Senate. Read More »
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Friday December 16, 2011
So no longer is she only alleging that Iran said things they actually didn’t, but now we know “without a shadow of doubt” that the attack will happen, unless we do something about it. That’s the sort of lying that makes the Iraq war propaganda of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld seem like honest straight-talk by comparison. Read More »
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Wednesday November 09, 2011
Since surely no AIPAC National Council Member would ever be so foolish as to falsely impersonate an “Arab Palestinian” in an effort to afford undue credibility to her condescending lecturing of Arabs, Pinkus must really be an Arab Palestinian! Read More »
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Wednesday October 12, 2011
Several weeks ago, we wrote about the problematic language in the Department of Homeland Security Reauthorization Act, which singles out “Islamist extremism” without considering other, more prevalent manifestations of extremism in American society. Today AAI issued a statement as follows Read More »
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Friday September 16, 2011
The U.S. and Israel are having a panicked reaction to this initiative. The Obama Administration has been clear in stating that should the Palestinians try to push their bid through to the UN Security Council, the U.S. will veto the proposal. Read More »
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Wednesday September 14, 2011
Tomorrow evening, hundreds of people are expected to march from the State Department to the White House, in a show of support for Palestinians’ bid for UN membership, greater democracy in the Middle East, and an end to US military aid to Israel. Read More »
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Tuesday September 13, 2011
“Today we commemorate 18 years since the launch of a process that was supposed to lead us to freedom and independence. It was meant to last only for a transitional period of five years. Unfortunately, almost two decades later, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is entrenched and Israel’s occupation has turned into de facto annexation" Read More »
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Friday September 02, 2011
This is like a man wrongly accusing a woman of stealing his wife’s purse, but rather than apologizing upon realizing that the woman was in fact holding her own purse, says instead, “you idiot, you must have stolen your own purse.” Read More »
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Tuesday July 12, 2011
A couple of days ago, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 268 with a vote of 407-6-13. As previously noted in an AAI action alert, H. Res. 268 is an anti-Palestinian bill that was introduced by Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), blaming the failure of the peace process entirely on the Palestinians (ignoring Israel’s steps that have rendered productive negotiations impossible), prohibiting assistance to the Palestinian national unity government, and calling for vetoing Palestinian efforts for recognition by the UN. Notwithstanding its distortion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the bill had collected 356 cosponsors by the time it passed. Read More »
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Wednesday February 16, 2011
After last week’s stunning House vote rejecting the extension of key Patriot Act provisions, this week both the House and Senate passed those provisions. Those provisions include the “roving wiretap” provision, the “libraries provision,” and the “lone wolf” provision. Read More »
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Wednesday January 05, 2011
Today marks the first day of the 112th Congress. At 12:00pm today both the House and the Senate will be called to order. In the House, outgoing Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, will deliver remarks followed by incoming speaker, Rep. John Boehner. Read More »
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Thursday December 16, 2010
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Howard Berman (D-CA) brought to the floor and passed a resolution “condemning unilateral declarations of a Palestinian state." But what is really worth highlighting in this case was that a Congresswoman who reluctantly supported the resolution made arguments about its counterproductive nature. Read More »
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