CAA Launches ‘Full Story Initiative’ to Improve Portrayals of Marginalized Communities
Effort aims to help creators shape more authentic and representative content connected to underrepresented communities and social issuesUmberto Gonzalez | April 13, 2021 @ 11:13 AM Last Updated: April 13, 2021 @ 11:19 AM
Creative Artists Agency and the CAA Foundation, in collaboration with leading nonprofit and international organizations, launched the Full Story Initiative, providing resources for content creators in film and television seeking to responsibly and authentically address social issues and portray historically underrepresented communities in their work, the agency announced on Tuesday.
The resources include a specialized content integration toolkit developed with subject-matter experts from leading nonprofit and international organizations; research reports that illustrate the impact of culturally competent and authentic narratives among audiences; and event-base
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Saturday, Maryland’s legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto to enact meaningful policing reform. In response, Kristina Roth, Senior Advocate for Criminal Justice Programs at Amnesty International USA, released the following statement:
“We are pleased to see Maryland now joins the majority of U.S. states in enacting a law, the Maryland Use of Force Statute, to limit police use of force. There now are just seven states in the U.S. without such a law. Maryland’s new law places it among just a few states that require police officers not to use force unless it is ‘necessary and proportional’, and makes it the first in the country to have a law that directs officers to cease using force if an officer determines that force will no longer accomplish a legitimate law enforcement objective.
Pentagon to study land mine rules that Biden promised to reverse Follow Us
Question of the Day This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Defense officials say the Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and will issue new rules that broaden their access . more > By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
The Pentagon is keeping for now a Trump administration policy that loosened restrictions on the use of land mines by the U.S. military, as the Biden administration weighs whether to re-impose tougher rules.
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Today, Amnesty International USA released the following statements to support President Joe Biden’s plan to announce several actions geared towards reducing gun violence. The actions include:
Increasing available federal funding for community gun violence intervention programs through the American Jobs Plan, Medicaid funding, as well as through agencies such as the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Labor;
A proposed rule from the Department of Justice to help stop the proliferation of ghost guns;
Model red flag legislation for the states from the Department of Justice;
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in
Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), courts have grappled with what constitutes a sufficient injury in fact to satisfy Article III standing requirements.
Predominant Issues has regularly reported how the lower courts have sometimes diverged in their conclusions about the types of injuries that are “concrete” versus merely “speculative” (see previous
Spokeo reporting here). Most recently, the Northern District of California has entered the fray, concluding that plaintiffs lacked standing to bring claims against Apple for alleged privacy violations that the court deemed overly speculative.
In
Lopez et al. v. Apple, plaintiffs filed a putative class action against Apple for alleged violations of various state and federal privacy laws. Plaintiffs owned Apple iPhones that came pre-installed with Siri, a virtual assistant trained in voice recognition.