NEW YORK, July 4 -- The International Refugee Assistance Project issued the following news release on July 3, 2025: * * * "Broken Priorities": IRAP Decries Expansion of Anti-Immigrant Agenda Under Reconciliation Bill The bill's environmental provisions will also worsen global climate displacement * (WASHINGTON, DC) -- Today, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a reconciliation bill 218-214 that amounts to an all-out assault on immigrant communities. The bill vastly expands funding   more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release on July 3, 2025: * * * Civil Rights Organizations, Community Leaders and Members Demand Answers on Disappearances of Dripping Springs Raid Detainees San Marcos, TX - Community members, local officials, faith leaders, and civil rights organizations gathered today at the Hays County Historic Courthouse to mark three months since the raid in Dripping Springs that led to the detention of 49 immigrants, including several mi  more

NEW YORK, July 1 -- The New York City Bar Association issued the following news release: * * * Ensuring Humanitarian Access to Gaza: A Call for Legal Compliance and Protection of Civilians The New York City Bar Association (the "City Bar") expresses deep concern over the catastrophic and escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and calls on all parties to the conflict--including the Government of Israel, Hamas, and relevant international actors--to ensure immediate, unimpeded, and sus  more

NEW YORK, July 4 [Category: Sociological] -- Everytown for Gun Safety posted the following news release: * * * Everytown Statement on Trump Signing Reconciliation Bill * WASHINGTON -- Today, President Trump signed a reconciliation bill that includes a provision weakening the National Firearms Act by eliminating the $200 tax on purchasing or making silencers, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and other dangerous weapons -- regulations that have been in place for nearly 100 years. Everytown   more

WASHINGTON, July 4 -- The House Education and Workforce Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology" at 10:15 a.m. on July 9, 2025, at 2175 Rayburn House Office Building: Republican Witnesses: * Dr. Robert M. Groves, Interim President, Georgetown University * Dr. Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, Chancellor, The City University of New York * Dr. Rich Lyons, Chancellor, University of Californ  more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- Immigration Equality issued the following news release: * * * Immigration Equality Raises Alarms Over Trump Spending Bill's Impact on LGBTQ Immigrants New York, NY (July 3, 2025) -- Immigration Equality condemns the budget reconciliation bill passed by Congress today as the most extreme expansion of immigration enforcement in modern U.S. history. The bill will supercharge detention and deportation while imposing unprecedented financial and legal barriers on LGBTQ and HIV-  more

NEW YORK, July 4 (TNSrep) -- The National Employment Law Project issued the following news release on July 3, 2025: * * * June Jobs Report: Workers Feel Uneven Impact of Federal Policies Amidst Economic Uncertainty Nationwide-- In June, 7 million workers were unemployed and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1% according to new data (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_04032025.htm) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate increased for Black workers to   more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release on July 3, 2025: * * * LatinoJustice Appalled at NYPD Commissioner Decision to Clear Officer in Fatal Shooting of Allan Feliz Despite Misconduct Findings New York, NY - New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch has cleared Lt. Jonathan Rivera of any wrongdoing in the 2019 fatal shooting of Allan Feliz, a Bronx during a traffic stop. Commissioner Tisch concluded that Rivera acted within department policy  more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release on July 2, 2025: * * * LatinoJustice Condemns Plan to use JAG Officers as Immigration Judges Undermining Due Process Orlando, Florida - President Trump said yesterday that he would approve a plan proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis to deputize members of the National Guard to serve as immigration judges. The officers, known as Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps officers, would be assigned to work on site at the new D  more

NEW YORK, July 1 -- The New York State Nurses Association issued the following news release: * * * NYSNA Demands Congress Vote No on Dangerous Bill That Will Harm Millions Of New Yorkers NYSNA Vehemently Opposes Budget Bill That Will Rob Healthcare, Livelihoods, and Futures from Millions of New Yorkers * New York, NY -- NYSNA nurses are deeply alarmed by the Senate's decision to pass a harmful budget reconciliation bill that will deepen cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare programs, remove  more

NEW YORK, July 4 [Category: International] -- The Center for Human Rights in Iran posted the following news release: * * * Op-Ed: Iran Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens. The World Needs to Respond. * This article was originally published in The New York Times July 4, 2025 By Karen Kramer, deputy director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran. Over the past week, Iran has begun a quiet campaign of terror -- not against an outside adversary but against its own people. After the U.S.-br  more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project issued the following news release on July 2, 2025: * * * S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD 'Cartoon Cop' Drones (New York, NY 7/2/2025) - Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, condemned NYPD's plan to launch drones that fire mesh nets to catch "hostile drones" midair and then parachute them down to the ground. Developed by American Robotics, the drones cost nearly  more

NEW YORK, July 4 -- The Women's Refugee Commission issued the following news release: * * * Women's Refugee Commission Gravely Fears The Impact Of The Reconciliation Bill On Immigrant Women and Families Yesterday the Senate voted to pass H.R.1, the Reconciliation bill also known as the "Big Beautiful Bill Act." The bill contains provisions that would be catastrophically harmful to immigrant women and families, including survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. A  more