November 4th National Protest Movement to Demand: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 25, 2017 By: RefuseFascim Communications Alt-Right, conservative, white supremacist, and outright fascist organizations have threatened violence and even issued death threats against nationwide nonviolent protests organized by RefuseFascism.org scheduled for November 4. Spreading[Read More…]
Analysis
Study: Retail Cannabis Sales Associated With Fewer Opioid Deaths
Fort Worth, TX—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2017 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Retail cannabis distribution in Colorado is associated with a reduction in opioid-related mortality, according to data published online ahead of print in The American Journal of Public Health. A team of investigators from the University of North Texas School[Read More…]
Study: 73% of Fortune 500 Companies Used Offshore Tax Havens in 2016
$2.6 Trillion in Offshore Profits, $752 Billion in Unpaid Federal Taxes. WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)—October 17, 2017 By: US PIRG A new study reveals the extent to which companies are using tax havens to avoid U.S. taxes and undermines the case for any tax proposal that would allow companies to repatriate their[Read More…]
VoteVets Responds to Trump Admission That He Hasn’t Bothered To Contact Families of the Fallen
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: VoteVets In a stunning admission, Donald Trump today admitted he hadn’t yet contacted the families of American troops who were killed in Niger, nearly two weeks ago. After falsely claiming that President Obama never called family members, Trump struggled to explain why he hadn’t[Read More…]
Harvard Study: More Than Half of Police Killings Not Officially Documented on U.S. Death Certificates
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015—and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due to[Read More…]
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Candidates Blast Sewage Dumps into Lake Michigan
“Tunnels cannot fully cope” — Green Party candidates call for rain-absorbing organic infrastructure CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: [email protected] In a statement released Monday morning, Green Party candidates for the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District blasted the current administration for its release of raw sewage and[Read More…]
Tom Price’s Revenge: HHS Makes Discriminating Against Reproductive Rights Central To Its Mission
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017 By: NOW President Toni Van Pelt Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made turning back the clock on women’s reproductive rights central to its new mission. A draft of its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan states unequivocally that the goals of HHS are[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Bipartisan Bill Halting Ban on Transgender Military Service Members
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2017 By: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Democratic and Republican members of Congress introduced a new bill in Congress (H.R. 4041) today that seeks an immediate halt to the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. The bill was introduced by Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.),[Read More…]
Poll: 7 in 10 Want the Trump Administration to Make the Affordable Care Act Work Rather Than Make it Fail
Large Majorities of Democrats, Republicans and Independents Favor Continuing Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments as Part of Bipartisan Deal in Congress to Give States More Flexibility Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2017 By: Kaiser Family Foundation As the Trump administration begins implementing Thursday’s executive order aimed at providing alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s[Read More…]
Poll: Most Americans Say Puerto Ricans Are Not Yet Getting the Help They Need After Hurricane Maria
More Blame Federal Government than Local Authorities for Problems Restoring Basic Services Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 12, 2017 By: Kaiser Family Foundation As President Trump threatens to scale back the federal response to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, most Americans say that Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria are not[Read More…]
