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April 20, 2009
April 20, 2009- Following a meeting in Washington, D.C., the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a national coalition of major Islamic organizations, issued a statement re-affirming opposition to FBI tactics and government policies targeting the Muslim community. Full release.
In a recent study, U.S. researchers have reprogrammed cells found in circulating blood into cells that are molecularly and functionally indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, a revolutionary achievement that provides a readily accessible source of stem cells and an alternative to harvesting embryonic stem cells. The findings were prepublished online in Blood, the official journal of the American Society of Hematology. Full release.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement following President Obama's first Cabinet meeting today, in which he challenged his cabinet to cut a collective $100 million in the next 90 days:"I applaud President Obama's continued commitment to fiscal responsibility and share in his commitment to ensuring that taxpayer dollars are protected and spent wisely." Full release.
Pressure is mounting for an expanded probe of Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their alleged roles in the 1970 bombing murder of a San Francisco policeman. Larry Grathwohl, former FBI informant in the Weather Underground and author of Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, will repeat his sworn testimony that points to the involvement of the Weather Underground in the bombing murder of Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell at a 12:30 p.m. News Conference on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the Marriott Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 Second Street, in the Rincon Hill room. Grathwohl says that he was at a meeting where Ayers said that his wife Dohrn had planted the bomb. Full release.
The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called on the FBI to confirm or deny a claim by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) that "a number" of Long Island mosques are under law enforcement surveillance. Full release.
Newsroom jobs held by black journalists were cut by an alarming 13.5 percent in 2008, making African-Americans the single most targeted group for job losses in newsrooms across the country according to a study released by ASNE, the American Society of News Editors. Full release.
At Citigroup's Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 21, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Pension Plan will urge shareholders to VOTE NO on the re-election of long-term members of the Audit & Risk Management Committee. Members of the committee include C. Michael Armstrong, Alain Belda, John Deutch, Andrew Liveris, Anne Mulcahy and Judith Rodin. Full release.
A counselor at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis, TN was caught on hidden camera coaching a 14-year-old girl to lie to a judge so he would not find out about her reportedly 31-year-old boyfriend. This is the sixth Planned Parenthood clinic implicated in a developing multi-state child abuse scandal involving the deliberate suppression of evidence of statutory rape. Full release.