January 5, 2009 -- In a victory for constitutional rights, two Transportation Security Authority (TSA) officials and JetBlue Airways have paid Raed Jarrar $240,000 to settle charges that they illegally discriminated against the U.S. resident based on his ethnicity and the Arabic writing on his t-shirt. TSA and JetBlue officials prevented Jarrar from boarding his August 2006 flight at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport until he agreed to cover his shirt, which read "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic, and then forced him to sit at the back of the plane.
The New York Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Rights Project (RRP) today released a report calling on New York City lawmakers to maintain and expand support services for pregnant and parenting teens in the city’s public schools.
The New York Civil Liberties Union today strongly condemned regulations proposed by the Bush administration that could jeopardize access to contraception and other basic health care services for millions of women in New York and across the country.
The Binghamton City Council unanimously passed a human rights law on Monday that outlaws discrimination against people in employment, housing, education and places of public accommodation on the basis of their gender identity or expression.
Tomorrow, elected officials, community members and advocates will attend a community forum in the Bronx to discuss the challenges facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families after the passage of Proposition 8 in California and as same-sex marriage becomes a central issue in the election of a new New York State senate majority leader.
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