News by subject: AVO

The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) is calling for the immediate resignation of Tractor Supply President Hal Lawton following the company's recent decision to cut diversity-focused positions and withdraw its carbon-emissions goals in...

Statement attributable to:Octavia Peck Palmer, PhDPresident, Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) "On June 28, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine and...

Our Bodies, Our Sports' landmark "Take Back Title IX" Summer 2024 Bus Tour across America to build widespread support to repeal the Biden administration's new Title IX rewrite and protect women's sports wrapped up its final rally in Nashville on...

Family Research Council Action Chairman Tony Perkins, who is an elected member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee from Louisiana, is announcing, in conjunction with scores of other conservative groups, the launch of the...

As the City Council prepares to make its final vote on the budget, unions representing Oakland city employees assert their firm stance that anticipated revenue from the Coliseum sale must be used to protect public services. The coalition of unions...

Mass General Brigham (MGB) Home Care nurses and healthcare professionals have exercised their right to unionize, joining the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) with a successful election on Friday, June 28. Their overwhelmingly yes vote enables...

Following is a statement from National Press Club President Emily Wilkins on the finding by a United Nations panel that Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich is being arbitrarily detained by Russia....

In a landmark move to strengthen individual rights within the European Union, Mr. Robert Szustkowski has issued the Open Letter to the European Commission, advocating for the expansion of the EU's "Right to be Forgotten" law. This proposal seeks to...

Today, the Teamsters applauded Representative Jimmy Gomez's (D-CA) oversight request sent to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Department of Transportation (DOT), outlining serious concerns regarding...

In a historic vote during National PTA's Level Up PTA 2024 Virtual Convention, delegates voted to adopt an amendment to the association's resolution on Safe Storage of Firearms that calls for the association to support legislation requiring adults to...

Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), the legislative arm of Family Research Council, today released its 2023 Vote Scorecard and announced its One Hundred Percent Award winners. The annual award recognizes the members of Congress who displayed...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Canada Day: "Happy Canada Day! "No matter where you are today, I hope you are celebrating the incredible people, the land, and the story that is Canada. It's a story that...

Following is a statement by National Press Club President Emily Wilkins on China's decision to extend detention for journalist Yuyu Dong ? a former Nieman Fellow -- being held in jail in Beijing.  ...

Supreme Court Justice Alito referenced The PPROM Foundation this past week in his dissenting opinion on Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States. The PPROM Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Vladimir Kara-Murza: "Last June, Canada's House of Commons granted Vladimir Kara-Murza honorary citizenship and, shortly after, the Senate of Canada confirmed the same. "In...

In response to criticisms of balancing the budget with one-time funds, unions representing Oakland city employees assert their firm stance that the Coliseum sale must move forward on time and be used to protect public services. The coalition of...

Today, Rosanne Haggerty, President and Chief Executive Officer at nonprofit Community Solutions, a leader in homelessness solutions, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to rule in favor of the City of...

Lawmakers, Hindu students, researchers, and community leaders came together in a packed room during the 3rd National Hindu Advocacy Day on the Hill, to discuss the concerns Hindus living in the US face. Close to 25 lawmakers (a mix of congressional...

Last night, at the urging of Moms First and nearly 15,000 moms and allies, the presidential debate moderators asked the candidates about child care at the first debate of the 2024 election. In a victory for American families, CNN's Jake Tapper asked...

On January 18, 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this old Chinese proverb when delivering a keynote speech titled Work Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Humankind at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland....

The Concord Coalition expressed disappointment that tonight's presidential debate failed to give the American people any idea what President Biden and former President Trump would do about the nation's spiraling debt burden, which both men have...

The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) applauds the House Ways and Means Committee for favorably reporting an amended version of the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act with a strong bipartisan vote of 36-4. This significant milestone reflects a commitment from...

Teamsters are condemning the decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to allow Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart to go before voters this November with an anti-worker, anti-taxpayer referendum. The ballot question, if passed, would...

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to uphold the right of Idaho to protect the unborn in the case of Idaho v. U.S. The case was a challenge to an Idaho law which...

Do No Harm, the nation's leading medical watchdog group, launched a campaign to fire Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine following bombshell reports revealing Levine pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender...

On June 26, SoundExchange CEO and President Michael Huppe and country music icon Randy Travis testified before Congress on the American Music Fairness Act (H.R. 791), which would require AM/FM radio stations to pay artists royalties when their songs...

Today the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California (CSHC) announced that despite opponents spending nearly $61 million on deceitful efforts to repeal a California law (SB...

A broad coalition of global food security leaders, nutrition advocates, former senior government officials, national security leaders, farmers, suppliers, and producers have issued the following statement regarding increased funding for global...

The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), an advocacy organization representing two million active dues-paying members nationwide, is beyond proud to announce that we have recently filed an amicus brief with the United States Court of...

Nine community groups and local businesses in the Beverly Fairfax neighborhood have filed appeals with the City of Los Angeles Planning Department, challenging the City's Advisory Agency's May 28, 2024 approval of the Vesting Tentative Tract Map...

As Marineland is set to open its doors on Friday, doubling down on its substandard beluga whale exhibit while seemingly abandoning its other animal attractions, the City of Niagara Falls has joined growing calls for the Government of Ontario to bring...

Today, Internet for Growth, representing more than 2,000 small businesses depending on digital advertising, expressed grave concerns about anti-advertising provisions in the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) H.R. 8818, which will undergo markup by...

Following is a statement from Emily Wilkins, President of the National Press Club on the first day of trial for Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg, Russia.  ...

With hundreds of members from diverse backgrounds, Americans for IVF, a new national organization launched today, aims to educate and engage the American public and Members of Congress on the importance of IVF as a morally just pathway to parenthood...

Loopholes in the latest regulation proposed by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara will enable continued insurance redlining and non-renewals in fire zones, not spur the coverage expansion Lara promises, Consumer Watchdog will testify this afternoon...

Imagine your child goes missing?they run away, are abducted, or vanish while playing outside. Or imagine being a child, sexually abused, with videos of your suffering distributed online. Or a teenager who's being sextorted online, feeling helpless...

The following is a statement from Karla Schumann, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 104, regarding Waymo's decision to recall its entire fleet following an incident where one of its vehicles crashed into a telephone pole:...

Members of the National Federation of the Blind...

Educators and their allies at more than 170 sites held events to raise awareness about the threats to our democracy posed by book bans and anti-history education laws. The events included pop-up Teach Truth displays, banned book swaps, teach-ins,...

Following is a statement by National Press Club President Emily Wilkins on the release of a letter to President Joseph R. Biden calling for the State Department to officially recognize Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva as...

Human trafficking stands as the greatest public health crisis and fastest-growing criminal enterprise of our time, affecting millions. In response to this urgent issue, Bill Woolf and Brittany Dunn present their groundbreaking work, "Eradicating...

Today, one day before the first presidential debate, hundreds of AARP employees and volunteers from all 50 states and nearly two dozen actors from The Creative Coalition will embark on Capitol Hill to urge elected representatives to support family...

San Francisco city departments operate within vertically structured silos that obstruct the effective delivery of critical city services, a new San Francisco Civil Grand Jury report has found. The city needs governance approaches that encourage...

Last night, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA, AB 886) successfully passed out of...

OPSEU/SEFPO has been informed that more than 50 food services workers at the Ontario Science Centre will receive indefinite layoff notices in the next few days in the wake of the unnecessary closure of the Ontario Science Centre to the public. "Four...

Global leaders gathered at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy and issued an urgent letter to the UN Secretary-General expressing outrage that Afghan women are excluded from the upcoming UN-convened meeting of Special Envoys and the...

Following reports that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved Waymo's expansion of autonomous vehicles (AVs) throughout California, the Teamsters Union is condemning commissioners who recklessly supported the corporate move while...

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post on June 24, Concord Coalition Co-Chair Bob Kerrey says: "The 90 minutes allotted to...

Ontario's financial services regulator, FSRA, believes companies providing home insurance can improve their claims handling processes to better support the fair treatment of consumers. This was the conclusion of FSRA's first Home Insurance Thematic...

Today, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) released its InsurEconomy 2024 report, which highlights the substantial impact that the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry has nationally in supporting jobs and contributing to economic growth....