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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for 2024-03-23 ( 5 items )  
Apple's Monopoly Abuses are a Human Rights Issue. Statement From U.S.-Based, Fight for the Future and China-Based GreatFire (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 23 -- Fight for the Future, an advocacy group for digital rights, issued the following statement on March 22, 2024: * * * Today the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of 16 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for maintaining a monopoly in the smartphone market. Digital rights group Fight for the Future, who have worked to highlight the human rights issues with Apple's monopoly, issued the following statement, which can be attributed to the group more PR

Broad Institute: Messenger RNAs With Multiple "tails" Could Lead to More Effective Therapeutics (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 23 (TNSres) -- The Broad Institute issued the following news on March 22, 2024: Messenger RNA (mRNA) made its big leap into the public limelight during the pandemic, thanks to its cornerstone role in several COVID-19 vaccines. But mRNAs, which are genetic sequences that instruct the body to produce proteins, are also being developed as a new class of drugs. For mRNAs to have broad therapeutic uses, however, the molecules will need to last longer in the body than  more PR

CLF Calls Final Offshore Wind Area in Gulf of Maine a Major Step in Clean Energy Future (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 16 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: The Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management finalized today its designation of a Wind Energy Area in the Gulf of Maine. Conservation Law Foundation released the following statement in response. "The designation of a Final Wind Energy Area in the Gulf of Maine is a major step in the transition of our energy economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean wind energy. BOEM did a tho more PR

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Jewish MIT Graduate Students Slam BDS-Linked Union With Federal Discrimination Charges (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 22 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation issued the following news release: Graduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have filed federal discrimination charges against the United Electrical Workers (UE) and MIT Graduate Students Union (GSU), stating that union officials have illegally denied their requests for religious accommodations to the forced payment of union dues. The students submitted their charges at the Equal  more PR

Oxfam Reaction to Russia's Attacks on Ukraine's Critical Infrastructure (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 23 -- Oxfam America issued the following statement on March 22, 2024: * * * In reaction to today's Russian attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, and Vinnytsia regions, which have left thousands of people without electricity or water, and caused disruptions to transport and communications, Sarah Redd, Oxfam's Advocacy Campaigns and Engagement Manager for the Ukraine Response, said: "Oxfam strongly condemns these attacks more PR