Backbone Campaign, an advocacy organization based on Vashon Island, is bringing a 20’ blimp of Baby Trump to fly during VP Pence’s visit to Spokane on Tuesday. Spokane, Washington—(ENEWSPF)—October 2, 2018 Contact: Bill Moyer, Executive Director, Backbone Campaign “The Vice President is complicit in an administration that continually engages in[Read More…]
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New FBI Report: Every 20 Seconds, Someone is Arrested for a Drug Law Violation in the U.S.
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 28, 2018 By: Suchitra Rajagopalan According to the FBI’s latest Uniform Crime Report, released today, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made 1.63 million arrests for drug law violations in 2017, a 3.83% increase over the previous year. More than 85% of these arrests – over 1.4 million[Read More…]
Several States See Declines in Manufacturing Jobs
Largest loss of manufacturing jobs seen in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Illinois Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 27, 2018 By: Alan Barber Nationally, employment in the blue collar sectors grew by 26,000 in August, an increase of 0.1 percent compared with July. The total number of jobs in these sectors has increased by 789,200[Read More…]
Damaging Drug War Bill Excluded From Congressional Opioid Package
SITSA Would Have Given Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department Broad Powers to Ban Any Drug They Want and Enact Draconian New Criminal Penalties; Bill Passed the House, But Its Exclusion is a Victory for Health-Based Approaches to Drug Policy Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 27, 2018 Contact: Tony Newman Late last night, the final[Read More…]
We Officially Flipped Senator Dianne Feinstein on Cannabis
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—September 14, 2018 By: Anthony Johnson Politics can make strange bedfellows and it has long been extremely weird that California was represented by an anti-cannabis United States Senator, the extremely powerful Dianne Feinstein. While Oregon paved the way for decriminalization in the early 1970s, California really led the charge for the[Read More…]
8 in 10 Puerto Rican Residents Report Hurricane Maria Affected Lives in Major Ways from Loss of Power for Months, Job Losses, Drinking Water Shortages, New/Worsening Health Problems
A Quarter Say Day-to-Day Life is Still Disrupted. Majorities Rate Government Response to Hurricane Maria Negatively and Say Rebuilding after Maria Not a Priority for the Federal Government PUERTO RICO—(ENEWSPF)—September 13, 2018 By: Chris Lee Nearly a year after Hurricane Maria swamped their island, eighty-three percent of the residents of[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Tracker Monitors Progress of North Korea Diplomacy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 10, 2018 By: Michael Fuchs, Abigail Bard, and Mathew Brady To keep track of the ever-changing status of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea, the Center for American Progress has launched an interactive feature that monitors the progress—or lack thereof—of efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. The North Korean[Read More…]
Fishermen on Front Lines of Climate Change Reveal Impact of Warming Oceans in New CAP Report
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—September 10, 2018 By: Avery Siciliano, Alexandra Carter, Shiva Polefka, and Michael Conathan In a new report from the Center for American Progress, fishermen on the front lines of climate change—from Alaska and California to Maine and Florida—reveal the impact of warming oceans and what it means for[Read More…]
NOW Calls for US Tennis Association to Dismiss Chair Umpire Carlos Ramos
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2018 Contact: Brittany T. Oliver Statement by NOW President Toni Van Pelt: In what was a blatantly racist and sexist move, tennis umpire Carlos Ramos unfairly penalized Serena Williams in an abhorrent display of male dominance and discrimination. This would not have happened if Serena Williams was[Read More…]
Former President Barack Obama Slams Donald Trump and GOP Ahead of Midterms (Video)
Obama: How hard is it is to say that Nazis are bad? URBANA—(ENEWSPF)—September 7, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser In his strongest remarks since leaving office, former President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump and the GOP urging every one of the importance of voting in the 2018 mid-term elections. In his[Read More…]
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