Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement about the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Last year, a powerful coalition of labor, environmental, consumer, public health and allied groups came together to stop the TPP. Today’s announcement that the US is withdrawing from TPP and[Read More…]
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Planned Parenthood to Sean Spicer: Access to Abortion Is An American Value
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. Today, in his first official White House briefing, when asked about Trump’s signing of an Executive Order reinstating the Global Gag Rule, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that opposition to abortion was an “American value.†He also incorrectly characterized what the Global Gag[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights: Trump Orders Global Gag Rule, Cuts Off Vital, Safe Abortion Services For Women
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. As one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump imposed a sweeping new policy that restricts access to safe abortion services for women worldwide. Trump’s Global Gag Rule dictates that U.S.-supported international family planning groups abroad may no longer use their own money to provide[Read More…]
Human Rights Watch: Trump’s Gag Rule Puts Women’s Health and Lives at Risk Globally
Marchers Demand Women’s Rights, But Trump Sets Them Back People gather for the Women’s March in Washington U.S., January 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017 By: Janet Walsh , Acting Director, Women’s Rights Division Two days after some 5 million people around the globe marched demanding respect[Read More…]
NARAL Statement on Reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. Today, just three days into his presidency, President Donald Trump reinstated the global gag rule, which denies family-planning funds for overseas health centers unless they comply with dangerous restrictions. NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue issued the following statement in response: “It’s telling that one of Trump’s first[Read More…]
Audubon Society: Removing Mentions of Climate Change from White House Website Ignores Reality
Deleting words from the internet does not eliminate the threat climate change poses to birds and people. Brown Pelican. Photo: Steve Torna/Audubon Photography Awards NEW YORK, N.Y.—(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. On Friday, the White House website erased any mention of climate change. Climate change is the biggest threat facing birds and[Read More…]
ACLU: Spicer Comments on Media Ring of McCarthyism, Will Lead to Losing Legal Battles
NEW YORK -(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. On Saturday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused news media of falsely reporting the size of yesterday’s Inauguration Day crowd, saying that “we’re going to hold the press accountable.”American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero offered the following reaction: “It is shameful[Read More…]
People’s Action: Trump’s First Act: Big Giveaway to Wall Street Elite
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2017. Immediately after he was sworn in as America’s 45th President on Friday, Donald J. Trump signed a series of executive orders, including the rollback of a Federal Housing Authority insurance premium cut. Liz Ryan Murray, policy director for People’s Action, a national progressive grassroots advocacy organization,[Read More…]
National Organization for Women Statement on the Inauguration
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2017. Statement by NOW President Terry O’Neill: Today Donald Trump took the oath of office, and became 45th president of the United States. Today, and every day for the next four years, we will resist his white nationalist agenda. Throughout a long and divisive campaign, Mr. Trump[Read More…]
Nearly 120 With Military and Civilian Intelligence Experience Write to Donald Trump To Tell Him To Stop Smearing Intelligence Officers
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Just days before he takes office, nearly 120 people with military and civilian intelligence experience have written to Donald Trump, to express their anger at his ongoing campaign against the intelligence community, and to urge him to stop. The full letter can be seen here:[Read More…]
