WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Fifty years ago today, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted a major portion of the law in Shelby County v. Holder, and some states have since passed laws that prevent[Read More…]
Opinion
Food & Water Watch: Ignominious 10th Anniversary of Fracking’s ‘Halliburton Loophole’ This Weekend
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch: This Saturday, August 8 marks the 10th anniversary of what largely enabled America’s oil and gas fracking boom: the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and a key provision of it known commonly as the “Halliburton Loophole.” The provision[Read More…]
SEIU’s Henry: We Can Honor 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act by Protecting Right to Vote
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement today, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act: “I am proud to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act—an historic and hard-won victory of the Civil Rights[Read More…]
AFL-CIO: Voting Rights Act is Crucial to Ensuring Every Voice is Heard at the Ballot Box
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: Today we commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the country’s most successful civil rights laws. The Voting Rights Act has played a central role in preventing the discriminatory practices that[Read More…]
Americans for Safe Access Statement on DOJ Memorandum Regarding Guidance on Effect of Rohrabacher-Farr Medical Cannabis Amendment
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 6, 2015. Yesterday, press reports revealed a February 2015 memorandum from Department of Justice on the Rohrabacher-Farr Medical Cannabis Amendment’s impact on federal law enforcement actions related to the Controlled Substances Act. The memorandum argues that federal prosecutions against private citizens participating in state-level medical cannabis programs would[Read More…]
New Study: 2016 Fundraising Shifts to ‘Shadow Campaigns’
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2015. Outside groups set up to benefit specific candidates have raised twice as much as the candidates themselves so far in the 2016 presidential race — and groups reported to have close ties to a candidate account for 96 percent of total outside fundraising, according to a[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth: EPA Includes Carbon Tax in Final Power Plant Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—August 4, 2015. Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. The final rule has explicitly allowed a carbon tax as a means of complying with the Clean Power Plan (p. 899). If states do[Read More…]
Food & Water Watch: New Information on WTO COOL Case Demonstrates Folly of Rash Congressional Action
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 4, 2015. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter on Recent Filing by U.S. Trade Representative’s Office on WTO COOL Dispute: “The Obama administration filed a legal brief in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute over the U.S. mandatory country of origin (COOL) labeling law[Read More…]
New NARAL TV Ads Slam Sens. Ayotte, Portman and Johnson For Working To Defund Planned Parenthood
Immediately Following Senate Vote, NARAL Pro-Choice America Releasing Hard Hitting Ad Campaign In Key Senate Races — NH, OH and WI Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2015. Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America released a new TV ad campaign in New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin hitting the Republican senators for working to deny funding[Read More…]
CAIR Stands with New Mexico Christians After Twin Church Bombings
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–AUgust 4, 2015. – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed solidarity with the Christian community in New Mexico following a pair of bombings yesterday targeting churches in that state. CAIR also urged that the bombings be investigated as[Read More…]
