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.

On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and its Media/Telecommunications Task Force, we submit our views regarding the critical need for a permanent broadband affordability and inclusion plan. We consider the Emergency Broadband Benefit program to be an important watershed moment in helping to connect millions of households to affordable broadband—but it is only the first step. A rapid and bold effort to support a permanent broadband benefit and digital inclusion program is necessary to meaningfully address the serious gaps in broadband adoption.

On behalf of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) we submit the following comments in response to the Federal Communication Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) Public Notice, released on March 19, 2021. We believe the Lifeline program is essential to connecting low income Asian American and Pacific Islander and other minority households to all facets of everyday life.

As organizations focused on protecting the privacy of the American public, we express our strong support for the confirmation of Prof. Lina Khan as a commissioner for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Prof. Khan brings a critically important set of skills and knowledge that will ensure the FTC is best positioned to play a leadership role safeguarding U.S. consumers as they navigate the digital environment.

Advancing Justice | AAJC signed on to a letter from civil rights and human interest organizations expressing concern for the federal government’s use of facial recognition technology provided by private company Clearview AI. Face recognition has been shown to return false positives in law enforcement use. In each confirmed instance of a false positive, the arrested individual was a person of color. These inherent biases are all the more concerning given that Clearview AI was founded by individuals with reported ties to far-right and white nationalist organizations

Advancing Justice | AAJC signed on to a letter from civil rights and human interest organizations asking President Biden have Congress adopt a long-term federally-funded broadband benefit program that the FCC would manage and administer to provide low income individuals with enhanced financial support for broadband long after the pandemic ends.

Advancing Justice | AAJC signed on to a letter from civil rights and human interest organizations asking Congressional leaders to create a predictable, sustainable, long-term broadband subsidy to ensure all people are empowered to fully share in the possibilities and opportunities that come with access to the internet.

Advancing Justice | AAJC signed on to a letter from civil rights groups on April 6, 2021 that submitted comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) Public Notice regarding Verizon Wireless Communications Inc.’s (“Verizon”) application to acquire TracFone Wireless, Inc., (“TracFone”). The transaction presented potential public interest harms to Lifeline subscribers and competition in the wireless market, impacting the ability of low-income communities to access critical communications services.