New Review Announces Top Jewelers Supporting Conflict-Free Gold Trade; Holiday Season ‘Jewelry Leaders Review’ Offers Shoppers Way to Support Peace in Mining Communities in Congo Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014 — Two giants of the jewelry world, Signet Jewelers (parent company of jewelry retailers Zales®, Jared®, and Kay®) and Tiffany & Co.,[Read More…]
Opinion
New Study Outlines Ways to Better Help Youths in Juvenile Justice System
Photo above is by photographer Richard Ross, whose Juvenile in Justice documentary collection was exhibited at a Roosevelt University Gage Gallery show co-sponsored by the Mansfield Institute in 2012. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. The Cook County Juvenile Justice system needs to get smarter about the way it handles adjudication of young people, a[Read More…]
Overwhelming Majority of Americans Say Supreme Court Should Side with Employee Who Was Denied Reasonable Accommodations During Pregnancy
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the pregnancy discrimination case Young v. United Parcel Service, a new poll released today finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans—79 percent—believe that the Supreme Court should side with Peggy Young. Young, a former United Parcel Service, or UPS, driver,[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights: Administrative Action on Immigration Provides Relief to Millions
The Crucial Next Step: Access to Health Care for Immigrant Women and Families NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. Last night’s executive action on immigration by President Barack Obama will protect up to 5 million immigrants, many of them women, from deportation and allow them to receive work authorization. But the administrative[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood Statement on President Obama’s Executive Action to Address Nation’s Broken Immigration System
WASHINGTON DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 21, 2014. Planned Parenthood Federation of America commends President Obama for taking long overdue executive action addressing key issues in our nation’s broken immigration system, and calling on the administration and Congress to work to extend healthcare coverage to these individuals. Statement from Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood[Read More…]
New Post-Election Poll Shows Battleground Voters Want Action to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Survey Shows Strong Support for Clean Energy and the Clean Power Plan Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. Today, the Sierra Club released the results of a new post-election poll conducted by Hart Research Associates showing that, regardless of whom they supported, voters in six key states in the 2014 midterm[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement on President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Reform
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. Last night, President Obama announced executive action to provide temporary immigration relief to millions of undocumented immigrants. Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director, issued the following statement in response: “This is what leadership looks like. In the wake of Republican obstruction on immigration reform, President[Read More…]
Statement of Earthjustice’s President Trip Van Noppen on the President’s Immigration Announcement Last Evening
Immigrants, like many of our nation’s farmworkers who will have put the food on our Thanksgiving tables, play a fundamental role in our country Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. The following is a statement by Earthjustice president Trip Van Noppen on President Obama’s immigration announcement on the evening of Thursday,[Read More…]
Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Responds to NYPD Killing of Akai Gurley
New York –-(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Executive Director Vincent Warren released the following statement in response to reports that a rookie NYPD officer fatally shot an unarmed black man in Brooklyn last night. The man, 28-year-old Akai Gurley, was shot in a stairwell in the[Read More…]
Center for Constitutional Rights: End to Secure Communities Welcome
End to Ongoing Abuses Should Follow New York –-(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. In response to yesterday’s announcement that, as part of his new immigration policy, President Obama has terminated the Secure Communities deportation program, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: While Obama’s announced immigration reforms have not[Read More…]
