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May 8: Rally Against the Muslim Ban
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Join us on Monday, May 8 to rally against the Muslim ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, on the day the Fourth Circuit appellate judges will hear the administration’s appeal to reinstate the ban.
Cecelia Chang, legal director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), said that the uptick in racially and religiously motivated hate crimes over the last year underscores what's at stake.
"There's a real world cost to normalizing that kind of speech, particularly in a country of immigrants," she said.
USA Today: There is no First Amendment right to compel government aid for disparaging private speech
There is no First Amendment right to compel government aid for disparaging private speech
Preventing officially sanctioned disparagement is not a quirk of trademark law. In many contexts, the government has recognized the harm of disparaging names and has acted to disassociate itself from those names and labels.
One month after the election of Donald Trump, Asian Americans Advancing Justice takes stock of the post-election landscape. While many details are not yet clear, we do have a sense of the looming challenges on civil rights and social justice issues. We examine what lays ahead for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities on issues such as DACA, deportations, targeting of Muslims, hate attacks, the Affordable Care Act, voting rights, educational access, and the 2020 Census. Follow-up webinars will be scheduled to focus specifically on each issue.
Advancing Justice | AAJC Leads Fight to Save Federal Ban On Disparaging Trademarks
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WASHINGTON – Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) and eleven Asian American organizations filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court to warn the Court about the dangers of opening the federal trademark program to racial slurs and other disparaging trademarks.