Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. TEPCO Successfully Tests Cover for Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1 Plant Status Tokyo Electric Power Co. reports that pilot tests of the ventilation system associated with the cover it has installed over Fukushima Daiichi reactor 1 showed the system successfully filtered more than 90 percent of[Read More…]
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Occupy Boston Declares Solidarity With Oakland, Actions Planned
November 2nd: A Day of Action at Occupy Boston BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. The following events will be held on Wednesday, November 2: Higher Education for the 99% March at 12:30 PM *Gather outside the Federal Reserve Bank, (600 Atlantic Ave. Boston 02210)* By 2012, student debt will hit a trillion dollars.[Read More…]
Occupy Boston: One Month Old, Still Going Strong
BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. We celebrated our one month birthday yesterday with a dance party and cake in sunny Dewey Square! Here’s a video! Source: www.occupyboston.org
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Heads to G-20 to Call for Job Creation and Wall Street Reforms
Joins Global Calls for a Speculation Tax on Wall Street to Aid 99% Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. As the G-20 prepares to meet AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be in France to participate in the Labour Summit and meet with international leaders on how to solve the global economic[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Victoria Nuland, October 31, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. Index for Today’s Briefing MIDDLE EAST PEACE Palestinian Membership as a State in UNESCO Legislative Restrictions Trying to Get the Parties Back to the Negotiating Table Implications of Vote for U.S. Businesses Abroad / World Intellectual Property Organization TURKEY Humanitarian Assistance to Turkey Following the Earthquake[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama at Signing of Today’s Executive Order, Oct. 31, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011 – 12:50 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all for being here. The United States, I think rightly, takes pride on having the most innovative and most successful drug industry in the world, and as a consequence the health of a lot of people, both[Read More…]
USW Demands Fair Wages at Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia
Pitssburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011. Steelworkers demanding fair wages for thousands of workers on strike at a Freeport-McMoRan mine in Indonesia held a demonstration at the company’s headquarters in Phoenix today. Around 10,000 workers have been on strike for higher wages since mid-September at Grasberg, the world’s largest gold mine in[Read More…]
Three UN Refugee Agency Staff Killed in Afghan Suicide Attack
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 October 2011. Three employees of the United Nations refugee agency were killed and two others wounded today when suicide bombers and gunmen carried out an attack near the world body’s compound in southern Afghanistan. The “organized” attack happened at around 6 a.m. local time in Kandahar, according to[Read More…]
UNESCO Votes to Admit Palestine as Full Member
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 October 2011. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voted to admit Palestine as a full member of the Paris-based agency. UNESCO’s General Conference, the agency’s highest ruling body, took the decision by a vote of 107 in favour to 14 against, with 52 abstentions,[Read More…]
NATO Secretary General Makes Historic Libya Trip
Libya–(ENEWSPF)–31 October 2011. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is making an historic visit to Libya, the first ever of a NATO Secretary General. The visit marks the conclusion of the NATO-led Operation Unified Protector for Libya, which comes to an end at midnight on October 31, exactly seven months since it began.[Read More…]
