Statement: A presidential pardon for Bradley Manning The Green Shadow Cabinet calls on President Obama to pardon Bradley Manning for his courageous work exposing U.S. war crimes and State Department deception. Thanks to Manning’s revelations of Iraqi deaths and human rights abuses by the American military, Iraq refused to renew immunity[Read More…]
Commentary
SEIU Mourns Loss of Former Union Organizer, Health Pioneer Ruth Rothstein
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2013. Following is a statement by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry regarding the death of Ruth Rothstein, a Chicago health leader who began her career as a union organizer. “Ruth Rothstein was an undeniable force for workers’ rights as well as a brilliant reformer in the field[Read More…]
Statement on First Anniversary of Oak Creek, Wisconsin Gurdwara Shooting
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2013. On August 5, 2012, a gunman with neoNazi ties stormed into a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and opened fire killing six American Sikh worshippers and injuring three others. It was one of the most lethal attacks on an American house of worship since the 1963[Read More…]
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on July 2013 Jobs Numbers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 2, 2013. Current economic and labor market conditions do not deserve to be labeled a “recovery” — except as they concern the very richest among us. For the vast majority of Americans, the economy remains mediocre —more than four years after the official end of the recession. A[Read More…]
Center for American Progress; Economist Adam Hersh on July 2013 Jobs Report
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 2, 2013. Today Center for American Progress Economist Adam Hersh issued the following reaction to the announcement of July’s employment figures: The U.S. job market appears to be stuck in the slow lane. Despite the modest gains in this report, we’re still not moving fast enough to repair the[Read More…]
Center for American Progress’ Laura Durso on the Introduction of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—August 2, 2013. This week, Reps. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act, which would prohibit federal programs serving runaway and homeless youth from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, homeless young people. If signed into law, the bill[Read More…]
Is It Time To Change Partners In Our Economic Development Dance?
Commentary By John A. Ostenburg Over the past nearly 30 years, Dr. Harriet Lerner has written several Dance of… books. They’ve focused on such topics as anger, intimacy, fear, and deception. The basic premise of the books is that human behavior often is similar to a circular dance in which partners always[Read More…]
Statement by Julian Assange on Verdict in Bradley Manning Court-Martial
UK–(ENEWSPF)–30 July 2013, 19:30 UTC. Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with information, including five counts of ’espionage’. He now faces a maximum sentence of 136 years. The ’aiding the enemy’ charge has fallen away.[Read More…]
The 48th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid
A statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 30, 2013. Today, we mark the 48th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid becoming law, a sacred promise our country made to older Americans and low-income working Americans and families that they will have the medical care they need to live healthier[Read More…]
Mobile Rail Management Fires Two IWW Organizers – Workers Will Respond
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2013. On Friday the 26th, Management at Mobile Rail Solutions fired Eric and Dwayne, two non-CDL service-helpers who are active participants in the ongoing Unionization effort. They further alluded to the possibility of firing all remaining non-CDL carrying employees. While management claims this is part of a restructuring,[Read More…]
