(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Group, Representing the Views of Over 75 Million American Catholics, Asks Catholics to Only Fund Parishes Which Publicly Oppose the Bishops’ Political Campaigns and to Vocally Stand Up Against Political Messages and Activity at Mass. WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of Catholics who[Read More…]
Day: April 20, 2012
State Department Briefing by Victoria Nuland, April 20, 2012
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Syria Human Rights Forum / Additional Funding UNESCO World Press Freedom Day / Highlighting Cases Ban Ki-moon / Rio+20 Efforts SYRIA Syrian Aid / UN Humanitarian Organizations / Food Shortage Ongoing Violence / Homs / Monitors / UN Security Council /[Read More…]
Presidential Proclamation — Establishment of the Fort Ord National Monument
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. In the heart of California’s Central Coast, the former Fort Ord encompasses a sweeping landscape of vivid beauty and rich natural diversity. One of the few remaining expanses of large, contiguous open space in the increasingly developed Monterey Bay area, this area is a rolling landscape[Read More…]
Representative Schakowsky & St. Margaret Mary Students Observe Earth Day
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012 -Today U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) joined students from St. Margaret Mary School in Rogers Park for a celebratory release of classroom-raised rainbow trout in Rogers Park in observance of Earth Day. The students raised the fish from eggs through a program with Trout Unlimited. Rep.[Read More…]
Sierra Club Praises Designation of Fort Ord National Monument
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. President Obama today will designate the nation’s newest national monument, Fort Ord National Monument in California. From 1902 to 1994, Fort Ord served as a unit garrison site and basic training base for Army soldiers who served in America’s conflicts from the Spanish-American War to Operation[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Experts on Environmental Standards, Green Jobs, and American Treasures to Protect this Earth Day
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–Aprill 20, 2012. Today policy experts from the Center for American Progress released a series of columns and analyses outlining a number of important priorities to keep in mind this Earth Day, which include the importance of environmental standards, ways that green jobs help communities of color and the[Read More…]
Continued Uncertainty and Recession in Eurozone Weaken Recovery in Emerging Europe and Central Asia
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012 ― The moderate recovery in Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) in 2010-2011 is now threatened by continued uncertainty and recession in the Eurozone, resulting in slowing growth across most of the region in 2012, World Bank officials said at a press briefing during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings[Read More…]
Alliance for Retired Americans Weekly Alert, April 20, 2012
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. Buffett Rule, CEO PayWatch Website Address Economic Unfairness The “Buffett Rule” – the Democratic-authored effort to impose a minimum tax on millionaires – failed on a largely partisan Senate vote on Monday. The 51 to 45 procedural vote fell short by 9 votes, since 60 are[Read More…]
North Carolina Judge Finds Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty, Commutes Death Sentence to Life Without Parole
Ruling Under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Says No One Should Be Sent to Death Because of Racial Bias FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. A North Carolina judge Friday issued a landmark decision finding intentional and systemic discrimination by state prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in capital cases and commuted the[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Proposes Bold Plan to Stabilize the Public Pension System
Plan Eliminates Unfunded Liability by 2042; Changes Will Save Taxpayers Billions CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today announced a bold plan that secures public workers’ retirement while fixing the state’s pension problem that has been created over decades of fiscal mismanagement. The proposal is expected to save taxpayers $65[Read More…]
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