Racial Justice
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Opposes Nomination of Congressmember Tom Price As Health and Human Services Secretary
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WASHINGTON - As a national civil rights organization, Asian Americans Advancing Justice opposes the nomination of Congressmember Tom Price (R-Ga) as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. As a member of Congress, Rep. Price has been one of the lead critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and has repeatedly attempted to repeal or gut the ACA.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Opposes Selection of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC condemns the President-elect’s choice of Senator Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General. Sessions has opposed civil rights and been a proponent of anti-immigrant policies at every turn. Sessions’ record of disenfranchising and denying the rights of people of color, immigrants, and Muslim communities should disqualify him for the nation's top legal position.
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.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Invocation of Japanese American Incarceration As Precedent for a Proposed Muslim Registry
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WASHINGTON – Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, called for swift condemnation of prominent Trump supporter Carl Higbie’s statements on Wednesday night suggesting that the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II could serve as precedent for the proposed registry of immigrants from Muslim and Arab countries.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Comments Justifying Internment Camps
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WASHINGTON - As Asian American civil rights organizations, we condemn the statement of Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Virginia, in which he cites the mass incarceration of “Japanese nationals” during World War II as rationale for his decision to bar Syrian refugees from Roanoke.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns President-elect’s Choice of Steve Bannon as Senior Advisor and Demands Bannon Be Replaced
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WASHINGTON – As a national civil rights organization, Asian Americans Advancing Justice condemns the President-elect’s choice of Steve Bannon as his chief strategist. His potential appointment gives tacit approval to Bannon’s known agenda against racial minorities, women, immigrants, Muslims, and the LGBT communities.
Statement: Advancing Justice | AAJC President Calls for President-elect Trump to Reverse Aggressive and Hateful Rhetoric
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WASHINGTON – Mee Moua, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, issued the following statement: