“Simply put, President Duterte’s new powers under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 are a threat to democracy and human rights in the Philippines because, despite the title, this legislation is not about terrorism,” Chu remarked. “It’s about silencing dissent. The true targets of this law are advocates for human rights, the environment, workers and indigenous communities.”
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., wrote: “Want to see @CDCgov numbers for yourself? Yeah, so do I. But @realDonaldTrump and @WhiteHouse have other plans for this #coronavirus data…”
And former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden wrote: “We’re in the middle of the worst pandemic in 100 years. More than 137,000 Americans have died. Covid is exploding in Arizona, Texas, South Carolina,… Read more »
“The Trump Administration has failed to adequately set forth its motives for this action, identify the specific needs it is trying to address, explain why it needs more political appointees running the Census than previous Administrations, or justify why the American taxpayers should be forced to pay for these partisan appointees running what should be an ideologically neutral count of… Read more »
Congress is working to make sure large numbers of Americans don’t become homeless because of the pandemic.
States like California with high costs of living were already grappling with a homeless crisis before COVID-19, and now…
“The people that were struggling with their rent and their mortgages before, are struggling even more,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., said.
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But Democrat Jimmy Gomez says any DACA deal from Congress or through Executive Order must include a path to citizenship.
“These kids are here. They’re American through and through except on paper,” Representative Jimmy Gomez, D-California, said.
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Union leaders are preparing a list of labor cases they could bring under the new agreement’s dispute settlement provisions, including that of a Mexican labor lawyer, Susana Prieto Terrazas, who was arrested while trying to establish an independent union. But it remains to be seen what kind of punishment the independent panels that review these cases could hand down, if… Read more »
Civil-rights advocates have long complained that facial recognition tools promote bias by misidentifying people of color. But it’s taken the widespread anger and sorrow over the death in police custody of George Floyd, an African-American Minneapolis man, to galvanize the debate.
“What I’ve learned is when there’s public sentiment around an issue, you can move mountains,” said… Read more »
At the federal level, Congressional representatives including Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are bringing legislative pressure to bear on facial recognition. Just yesterday, the Boston City Council banned facial recognition, joining a few other locales in Massachusetts and California that have done the same. And today, members of… Read more »
These concerns have pushed lawmakers to consider how a facial recognition moratorium would work. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat from California, has been looking into a bill that would impose a moratorium on facial recognition for at least two years, starting from January 2021.
Merkley proposed the Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Act in February, which would put a moratorium on… Read more »
When the American Civil Liberties Union tested Amazon's controversial facial recognition technology on photos of Congress members in 2018, the software incorrectly matched 28 members with the mugshots of people who had been arrested for a crime, with the mis-identifications disproportionately affecting people of color.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California was one of the ones affected. He… Read more »
