TOKYO -(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2016. Today, 350.org Japan and Green Peace Japan held a “#NoDAPL Japan” photo action to highlight the massive financing that Japanese banks are pouring into the Dakota Access Pipeline project in the U.S., a project that has endangered water access rights among minority populations in the country.[Read More…]
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Trump Supporters Praying Banker Who Foreclosed On Their Home Won’t Be Treasury Sec. He Will Be.
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 30, 2016 By pollwatcher How many stories of buyers remorse and suckers who got conned by the GOP’s P.T. Barnum production machine will we be reading over the next few years? I suspect it will be a constant stream. The people who failed to fulfill their responsibility to[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Challenges to Abortion Restrictions in Three States
Women’s health organizations take fight against unconstitutional measures to state, federal courts Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 30, 2016. Abortion rights groups today announced a new wave of litigation to protect and expand access to abortion, with more to come. The three simultaneous lawsuits announced today challenge medically unnecessary abortion restrictions in Alaska,[Read More…]
Senator Chuck Schumer: “We Say to Republicans Who Want to Privatize Medicare, Go Try It. Make Our Day”
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016 By TomP Senator Chuck Schumer may not be the most left wing of our senators, but he has a keen political mind and will ally with us on some important things. First, he wants to win: “When you lose an election the way we did, you don’t[Read More…]
2,000 Veterans Plan to be a ‘Human Shield’ for the North Dakota Pipeline Activists
NORTH DAKOTA–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016 By Walter Einenkel No justice. No Peace. As more and more signs point towards the government trying to strong-arm Dakota Access Pipeline protectors and activists in the coming days, a movement called Veterans Stand for Standing Rock plan on lending their help and their bodies. As[Read More…]
First Lady Welcomes Service Members, Families to White House Holiday Preview
First Lady Michele Obama speaks to nearly 200 military families in the White House East Room during the eighth annual military family preview of White House holiday décor, Nov. 29, 2016. DoD photo by Terri Moon Cronk Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016 By: Terri Moon Cronk WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016 — First[Read More…]
Senator Warren Calls on Democrats to Resist: ‘Republicans Do Not Have Majority Support in This Country’
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016 By Kerry Eleveld Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday told Democrats to stiffen their spines, reminding them that “the majority of voters supported Democratic Senate candidates over Republicans ones, and the majority supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican one.” The remarks came as Warren took[Read More…]
Amid Battle for Mosul, ISIL Forcing Civilians ‘Squarely in Harm’s Way,’ UN Rights Wing Warns
A young girl carrying a teddy bear and waving a white flag, heads towards an army outpost in the Samah neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, away from the heavy fighting engulfing the city. Photo: UNHCR/Ivor Prickett IRAQ–(ENEWSPF)–29 November 2016 – As the Iraqi military intensifies its operations to[Read More…]
Syria: Amid ‘Chilling’ Situation in Aleppo, 16,000 Flee Intense Fighting, UN Aid Chief Warns
On 20 November 2016, a group of children push a cart trying to sell some radish in Al-Sha’ar neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. Food and other basic commodities are running out at one of East Aleppo’s once busiest markets. Photo: UNICEF/Zayat GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–29 November 2016 – Citing preliminary reports that that up[Read More…]
Water Protector Legal Collective Files Suit for Excessive Force Against Peaceful Protesters
Above: Law enforcement uses water canon, teargas, and other munitions against peaceful Water Protectors, November 20, 2016. (Photo: Shanna Merola) CANNON BALL, ND —(ENEWPSF)–November 29, 2016. Yesterday, the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC-formerly Red Owl), an initiative of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), filed suit in US District Court against[Read More…]
