CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. Spring 2016 registration is open at Prairie State College (PSC), and the schedule brings special opportunities for musicians to join one of the various ensembles the college offers during the semester. Classes for the spring semester begin Tuesday, Jan. 19. The Wind Ensemble, directed by music[Read More…]
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky Statement On Planned Parenthood Lawsuit
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–Januarty 14, 2016. Today, Rep. Jan Schakowsky released the following statement after Planned Parenthood announced that it would be filing a lawsuit against those who tried to spread lies about the organization’s activities: “I fully support Planned Parenthood’s decision to file suit against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)[Read More…]
Chicago Man Sentenced To More Than 16 Years In Prison For Selling Shotguns And Rifles Imported To Chicago From Indiana
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. A Chicago man was sentenced yesterday to more than 16 years in federal prison for selling nearly a dozen firearms that had been transported from Indiana to the streets of Chicago. TERRENCE GRIGGS, 36, sold eleven firearms and a bulletproof vest to an individual he believed[Read More…]
Collective Action has the Power to Defeat Racist Rhetoric in 2016
Ian Haney-Lopez releases new report outlining strategies for collective action against racist rhetoric in politics Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016 – Today, the AFL-CIO and University of California Berkeley Law Professor Ian Haney-Lopez, in partnership with Demos and the University of California-Berkley Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, released[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood Files Federal Lawsuit Against People Behind Fraudulent Smear Campaign
‘The people behind this fraud lied and broke the law in order to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood’ SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016 – Today, Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the people behind an ongoing, widely discredited video smear campaign – charging that anti-abortion activists engaged in an[Read More…]
Study: Marijuana Decreases Migraine Frequency
Aurora, CO–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. Cannabis administration is associated with decreased migraine headache frequency, according to data published online in the journal Pharmacotherapy. Investigators at the University of Colorado, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences retrospectively assessed cannabis’ effects on monthly migraine headache frequency in a group of 121[Read More…]
Study: Cannabis Use Not Predictive Of Lower IQ
London, United Kingdom–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. Marijuana use by adolescents is not associated with lower IQ or poorer educational performance once adjustments are made for potential confounders, specifically cigarette smoking, according to longitudinal data published online ahead of print in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. British investigators assessed the relationship between cumulative[Read More…]
Starvation ‘As a Weapon’ is a War Crime, UN Chief Warns Parties to Conflict in Syria
On 11 January 2016 in Madaya, Rural Damascus, women and their families wait for permissions to leave the besieged town. Photo credit: UNICEF/UN07229/Al Saleh, WFP NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–14 January 2016 – With United Nations humanitarian teams witnessing scenes in Syria that “haunt the soul,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said the situation[Read More…]
U.S. Represenatives Lofgren, Roybal-Allard & Gutiérrez Statement on Central American Refugee Screening and Resettlement
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. Today, U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), and Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) issued the following statement regarding refugee screening and resettlement for El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala: “The Administration’s recently announced recognition that many Central Americans qualify as refugees under international law[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Calls for End to Ban On Centers for Disease Control Gun Violence Research
Since 1996, nonsensical provision in law has prohibited the CDC from studying the epidemic of gun violence in America CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today called for the end of a longstanding prohibition on federally funded gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control and[Read More…]
