Colombian leader Juan Manuel Santos receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Berit Reiss-Andersen in Oslo (Source: cnn.com) Says War on Drugs “Equally or Perhaps More Harmful Than All the Wars the World is Fighting Today, Combined” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2016. On Saturday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used his acceptance[Read More…]
Commentary
Garrison Keillor: ‘He Will Never Be My President’—Here’s Why
MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016 By Leslie Salzillo Entertainer, author and beloved NPR radio personality Garrison Keillor has had plenty to say about Donald Trump during and after Election Day. On November 10, an article about Keillor’s Washington Post op-ed went viral. Keillor wrote — with disgust: “Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely[Read More…]
‘He’s Not President Yet’—Michael Moore Believes Trump May Not Make it to Inauguration Day (Video)
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016 By Leslie Salzillo Michael Moore on Late Night with Seth Meyers, December 8, 2016 Filmmaker, actor, activist and liberal rabble-rouser Michael Moore made a stunning statement last summer. He predicted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would win, even though Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was way ahead in the[Read More…]
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Letter to the Editor of USA Today, December 9, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016 For more than a month we have been working with a USA Today reporter on a story looking closely at our internal quality improvement tool called Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL) and the rankings it uses to help our facilities improve. The story posted online[Read More…]
National Audubon Society: Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Trump’s Pick for Interior, Tasked with Important Responsibility
Our public lands, wildlife and climate progress depend on a strong and steady Interior Department. Northern Harrier. Photo: Doug German/Audubon Photography Awards WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. Today, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is expected to announce Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) as his choice for Secretary of the Interior. The National Audubon[Read More…]
Statement of Southern Poverty Law Center Legal Director on the Nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor
ALABAMA–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016.The following statement is from Rhonda Brownstein, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Andrew Puzder as Labor secretary – a position charged with protecting the rights of[Read More…]
Western Environmental Law Center Statement on Nomination of Public Lands Privatization Advocate to lead U.S. Department of Interior
OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. The nomination of Cathy McMorris Rodgers to lead the U.S. Department of Interior, tasked with “protecting America’s great outdoors and powering our future,” affirms the president elect’s intent to undermine public lands protections and hand over our public resources to dirty fossil fuel interests. This nomination serves[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Andrew Puzder Unfit for Labor Secretary
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2016. Today, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he plans to appoint fast food CEO Andrew Puzderas the head of the U.S. Department of Labor. In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement: “Andrew Puzder and Donald Trump are trying to pull one[Read More…]
SEIU’s Henry: Trump Grossly Out of Touch With What Working America Needs, Labor Nominee Puzder Dead Wrong for America’s Working Families
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement on President-elect Trump’s intended nomination of Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, to be Secretary of Labor: “With the intended nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor, President-elect Trump has once again shown how[Read More…]
Civil and Human Rights Coalition Blasts Trump’s Anti-Jobs, Anti-Family, and Anti-Worker Labor Secretary Pick
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in response to news that President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate the anti-family, anti-worker, and anti-jobs CEO of a fast food chain, Andy Puzder, to lead the Department[Read More…]
