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Updates From Human Rights Watch! Hong Kong & Bahrain 12/13/21

Updates From Human Rights Watch! Hong Kong & Bahrain 12/13/21

  Hong Kong: Quash Convictions for Peaceful Expression Publisher Jimmy Lai, Tiananmen Vigil Organizers Sentenced for ‘Incitement’ A Hong Kong court on December 13, 2021, sentenced seven prominent pro-democracy figures, including Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai and former legislator Lee Cheuk-yan, to prison from four-and-a-half months to 14 months. The court found them guilty of inciting, organizing, and participating in an annual vigil in[Read More…]

by — December 14, 2021 — 0 comments — Politics
America's First Legal Claims "Monumental Victories": SCOTUS Rejects Efforts To Block Texas Heartbeat Act & Rejects Biden DOJ’S Emergency Appeal. AFL Head Honcho Stephen Miller Spikes The Football

America’s First Legal Claims “Monumental Victories”: SCOTUS Rejects Efforts To Block Texas Heartbeat Act & Rejects Biden DOJ’S Emergency Appeal. AFL Head Honcho Stephen Miller Spikes The Football

On Friday, December 10, America First Legal issued the following statements: This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered emphatic victories to AFL in two cases involving SB8, the Texas Heartbeat Act. In the first decision, the Supreme Court rejected abortion providers’ attempt to immunize themselves from private civil lawsuits authorized by SB8. The Court held that judges, court[Read More…]

by — December 12, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Rhode Island Governor McKee Issues Statement On The Discovery Of Omicron Variant In Rhode Island

Rhode Island Governor McKee Issues Statement On The Discovery Of Omicron Variant In Rhode Island

Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) today announced that Rhode Island’s first case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant (variant B.1.1.529) has been identified. The case was identified through the ongoing genomic surveillance program coordinated by RIDOH’s State Health Laboratories. As the Governor shared yesterday, he will be announcing a comprehensive set of actions[Read More…]

by — December 11, 2021 — 0 comments — Politics
Magaziner Ties McKee To Campaign $$ From Notorious Sackler-Opioid Pill Pushers - Decries Failure Of Most Opponents To Take The People's Pledge

Magaziner Ties McKee To Campaign $$ From Notorious Sackler-Opioid Pill Pushers – Decries Failure Of Most Opponents To Take The People’s Pledge

Gubernatorial candidate Seth Magaziner today released an update on the status of his call for a People’s Pledge to keep independent expenditures out of the 2022 Democratic primary. On November 17, 2021, Magaziner sent a letter to his opponents calling on them to meet and formalize the terms of a People’s Pledge to keep dark money out of the race[Read More…]

by — November 30, 2021 — 0 comments — Politics
Is The Rhode Island Department Of Labor & Training About To Employ Facial Recognition Technology? They Won't Say. And The ACLU Is Suing Them

Is The Rhode Island Department Of Labor & Training About To Employ Facial Recognition Technology? They Won’t Say. And The ACLU Is Suing Them

    Is the R.I. Department of Labor and Training (DLT) planning to use facial recognition technology to process unemployment claims? The agency doesn’t want the public to know, so the ACLU of Rhode Island today filed an open records lawsuit to find out. The suit is in response to the DLT’s refusal to provide the ACLU any documents in[Read More…]

by — November 30, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
CDC Statement on B.1.1.529 - Omicron

CDC Statement on B.1.1.529 – Omicron

  From The Center For Disease Control On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new variant, B.1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and has named it Omicron. No cases of this variant have been identified in the U.S. to date. CDC is following the details of this new variant, first reported to the WHO by South Africa. We are grateful to the South African government and its scientists who have openly communicated with the global scientific[Read More…]

by — November 27, 2021 — 0 comments — Uncategorized

Mayor Elorza, PWCVB Encourage Providence Residents To Shop Local Ahead Of Small Business Saturday

  Restaurants and other local retailers are highlighted as businesses to patronize during the holiday season Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today joined Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (PWCVB), Stephen White, co-owner of Res American Bistro, Julia Broome, owner of Kin Southern Table + Bar, Sandra Enos, founder and CEO of Giving Beyond the Box, and community members to encourage[Read More…]

by — November 25, 2021 — 0 comments — Business
AFL Files Lawsuit Against Biden Administration, Challenging The Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees

AFL Files Lawsuit Against Biden Administration, Challenging The Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees

This week, on behalf of a courageous federal employee, America First Legal sued the Biden Administration to block its unlawful and unconstitutional federal civilian employee vaccine mandate. Representing a dedicated, twenty-year civilian employee of the Department of the Navy with natural immunity to COVID-19, AFL has brought this case because no law authorizes what President Biden and his Administration have[Read More…]

by — November 25, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
CPJ-The Committee To Protect Journalists Calls On Facebook To Restore Press Freedom Awards Video Following Takedown

CPJ-The Committee To Protect Journalists Calls On Facebook To Restore Press Freedom Awards Video Following Takedown

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Facebook to restore a video honoring the winners of the International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA) at CPJ’s annual awards ceremony held on November 18 and streamed on social media during the event. Less than an hour after the stream ended, Facebook notified CPJ that the video had been withheld worldwide because of[Read More…]

by — November 25, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Mayor Elorza Announces Theresa M. Agonia as Acting Chief of Staff

Mayor Elorza Announces Theresa M. Agonia as Acting Chief of Staff

  Agonia to Serve as Acting Chief of Staff During Chief of Staff Nicole Pollock’s Leave Mayor Jorge Elorza today announced that Chief of External Affairs Theresa M. Agonia will transition to serve as Acting Chief of Staff starting December 6th, 2021 during Chief of Staff Nicole Pollock’s parental leave on an interim basis. Agonia will retain her role as[Read More…]

by — November 24, 2021 — 0 comments — Politics
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