Source: prisonhandbook.com Advocates will push next Administration on Sentencing Reform Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Today, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 330 more people incarcerated in federal prison for drug offenses. This brings the number of prisoners who have been granted clemency under President Obama to 1,715. The commutations[Read More…]
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In Case You Missed It – AlterNet: Looking Back: President Obama’s Historic Efforts to Roll Back the Drug War and Tackle Mass Incarceration
Source: weedblog.com From legalization laws to embracing harm reduction, to acknowledging the failures of mandatory minimums, we have a to be thankful for, and a lot to lose. Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017 By: Tony Newman Tomorrow, Barack Obama’s historic presidency will come to an end. It is hard to believe[Read More…]
Women Will Lose Tremendously If Congress Attacks Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood
Source: AP/Sue Ogrocki Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Repealing the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, and defunding Planned Parenthood would cause millions of women to lose access to affordable health care and would most harm low-income women and women of color, according to a new column by the Center for[Read More…]
Consumer and Environmental Groups Praise Klobuchar, Question if Sessions Can Be Trusted on Antitrust Enforcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Yesterday, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, questioned Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on his commitment to enforce antitrust laws, after President-elect Donald Trump’s meetings with agrichemical giants Monsanto (NYSE: MON) and[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth: Rick Perry Uniquely Unqualified to Lead Department of Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee is holding its hearing on Donald Trump’s nominee for the Department of Energy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Friends of the Earth Senior Political Strategist Ben Schreiber issued the following response: Perry is uniquely unqualified to run[Read More…]
Doctors Who Support ‘Medicare for All’ Among Those Opposing Price as HHS Secretary
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. More than 2,000 physicians and medical students who oppose the nomination of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — and who support the creation of a single-payer national health program to cover all Americans — are among the signers of[Read More…]
Comedian Lewis Black on Trump’s Inauguration (Video)
Source: Huffington Post OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. I’m a big fan of Lewis Black’s. He helped me laugh through the George W. Bush days and now I’m counting on him doing the same during the reign of Der Pumpkin Fuhrer, i.e., Donald Trump. Lewis was on the Daily Show this week[Read More…]
Health, Environmental, and Tribal Groups Applaud Order Denying Industry Efforts to Halt BLM Methane Waste Rule Implementation
Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health CASPER, WY —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming federal judge Scott W. Skavdahl rejecting industry and state efforts to halt[Read More…]
In Case You Missed It: Highlights from Drug Policy Alliance Press Teleconference Featuring Speakers Reacting to Confirmation Hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions
Call Highlighted Sessions’ Record on Criminal Justice Reform, Marijuana Reform, and Civil and Human Rights Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. On January 12, the Drug Policy Alliance hosted a press teleconference with speakers from a broad spectrum of organizations who shared strong concerns that, if confirmed, Jeff Sessions as Attorney General[Read More…]
NOW Stands With Rep John Lewis, Calls on Donald Trump to Apologize
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2017. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Donald Trump’s bullying tweets aimed at civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis are appalling. The candidate who said that African Americans should vote for him because their lives were so bad that they “had nothing to lose” now perpetuates[Read More…]
