NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  Today, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced a revised version of the USA FREEDOM Act.  The bill, which would prohibit bulk collection of Americans’ business records and increase transparency and accountability in surveillance, has the best chance of any stand-alone bill of becoming law in this session[Read More…]

SEIU Launches New Radio Ads Urging Latinos to Register to Vote, Targeting Republican Party and Congressmen Gardner, Coffman, Valadao and Heck WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  At the height of a national debate where Republican members of Congress have veered to extremist tactics and rhetoric to address immigration and the children[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2014. The New York Times editorial board made history Sunday, as the first major national paper to call for an end to marijuana prohibition. And how they did it is half the story — with rare flash and panache, as well as the intellectual and moral substance[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2014. Members of Veterans For Peace will deliver a letter to Israel’s Embassy, 3514 International Dr. NW, Washington, D.C. 20008, at 1:30 pm Monday afternoon, July 21. The letter calls on the government of Israel to immediately halt the bombing of Palestinian civilians and to withdraw all its troops and[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2014.  John Boehner has acknowledged that the Republican House of Representatives will not hold a vote on the bipartisan Senate immigration bill. Responsibility for the historic failure to enact comprehensive immigration reform lies squarely, completely and embarrassingly at the feet of the Republican leaders of the U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  The extreme views of today’s Supreme Court aimed at home care workers aren’t just bad for unions – they’re bad for all workers and the middle class. But the attacks on the freedom of workers to come together are nothing new. They are part of an[Read More…]

 An Attack on Working People Is an Attack on Everyone Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—June 30, 2014. Following today’s Supreme Court ruling in Harris v. Quinn, Jobs With Justice Executive Director Sarita Gupta issued the following statement: “Today, in an overreaching decision, the Supreme Court limited collective bargaining rights of Illinois care workers[Read More…]

Decision Elevates Employers’ Religious Views Over Employees’ Rights, Church-State Watchdog Says Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the owners of some secular, for-profit companies to deny their employees access to birth control is a blow to individual conscience and medical privacy rights, says Americans United for Separation of[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  Today, President Barack Obama announced that he is directing the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General to make recommendations for taking administrative action to fix the country’s broken immigration system. In reaction to the president’s announcement, Marshall Fitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  Today, in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Harris v. Quinn, which held that partial public employees cannot be required to pay union bargaining fees, Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden issued the following statement: Today’s Harris v. Quinn decision is the latest Roberts Court attack[Read More…]