The undersigned call upon the members of the Virginia Redistricting Commission (“Commission”) to end English-only community engagement practices and actions that impair the equal opportunities of limited-English proficient (LEP) and disabled Virginians from participating in the redistricting process. As the Commission engages in a critical phase of its work, nearing the end of the redistricting process, we strongly urge it to quickly improve the ability of LEP and disabled Virginians and communities to understand and comment on the work of the Commission.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) submitted a comment in response to the request for input on the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-33) implementation guidance by Director Eric Lander on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). We provided implementation guidance recommendations and expressed our concerns about the mass profiling and discriminatory investigations and prosecutions of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars, particularly of Chinese descent.

We urge Speaker Pelosi and Leaders Schumer, McConnell and McCarthy to swiftly pass the Expanding Broadcast Ownership Opportunities Act introduced by Reps. G.K. Butterfield and Steven Horsford and the Broadcast Varied Ownership Incentives for Community Expanded Service Act (Broadcast VOICES Act) introduced by Sens. Gary Peters and Robert Menendez. Supporting these pieces of legislation would eliminate barriers and create new opportunities for women, people of color and socially disadvantaged individuals to own local TV and radio stations.

As the COVID-19 health crisis continues to expose the depth of our country’s digital divide and the essential role that broadband access plays in sustaining critical aspects of our everyday lives-- it has also revealed how the continued lack of broadband and digital skills education have resulted in higher rates of poverty, underemployment, and limited vaccine distribution for multicultural communities nationwide.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) has been vital to the prevention of actual and threatened discrimination aimed at Asian Americans in national and local elections, and for increasing the community’s access to the ballot. It is our nation’s most successful and consequential civil rights law; Advancing Justice – AAJC has worked to reauthorize, restore and enforce the VRA throughout the organization’s history as it has protected and advanced the voting rights of Asian Americans across the country.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (together, the “ACLU”) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (“Advancing Justice | AAJC”) appeals the decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to administratively close the Freedom of Information Act request for records pertaining to the government’s efforts to scrutinize, investigate, prosecute, and take other measures against U.S.-based scientists and researchers believed to have connections to China.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, American Association of University Professors NYU Chapter (AAUP-NYU), and the Union for Graduate Employees at New York University (GSOC) delivered a petition to NYU President Andrew Hamilton with over 1,100 signatures from the academic community, including NYU faculty, staff, and students, concerned citizens, and community members in response to the unjust suspension and elimination of proper due process protections of two tenured professors of Asian descent at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

 Advancing Justice | AAJC sent a letter today asking the acting U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee to drop the charges against Dr. Anming Hu, an Asian immigrant professor who has been unjustly investigated and prosecuted under the DOJ's “China Initiative.”

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submitted testimony for the record for the Democratic Member Roundtable entitled, “Researching while Chinese American: Ethnic Profiling, Chinese American Scientists and a New American Brain Drain” held on June 30, 2021 by the U.S.