HENDERSON, Nev. –-(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. The National Union of Healthcare Workers– an organization representing 11,000 health care workers at hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics throughout California– on Monday endorsed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for president. “We’ve had a great relationship with Sen. Sanders for years,” said NUHW President Sal Rosselli,[Read More…]
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Roosevelt University Inaugural Frank Untermyer Event to Honor African American Spirit
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. Roosevelt University’s St. Clair Drake Center for African and African American Studies will host a lecture October 19 by African American media expert Sonja Williams and will give its first-ever teaching award named for founding Roosevelt University professor Frank Untermyer. The event is from 2 to 3:30[Read More…]
Bosnian Immigrant Lives Roosevelt University Legacy
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. Choosing the right direction hasn’t always been easy for Roosevelt University Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) major Ermina Veljacic, who frequently has felt confused and disconnected since fleeing war-torn Bosnia as a child with her parents and siblings. A resident of Chicago’s southeast side since eight years of[Read More…]
Majority of EU Countries Opt-Out of Approved GE Crops
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. Nineteen European Union (EU) member states (Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Solvenia, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales) have opted out of approving GE cultivation except for research purposes. In the past, the EU[Read More…]
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on the Dutch Safety Board Report on the Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. The release today by the Dutch Safety Board of its investigatory report on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014 is an important milestone in the effort to hold accountable those responsible for the shoot-down of the aircraft[Read More…]
Governors State University Receives $1.99 Million Grant to Create Center for Increasing Student Retention and Graduation Levels
UNIVERSITY PARK, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 13, 2015. Governors State University (GSU) has been selected to receive a Title III grant of $1.99 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP). The GSU grant will be used to fund a program called “Integrating Pathways: Student Success and Retention[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Statement on Recent Violence in Israel
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2015. “I am alarmed by the recent wave of attacks against Israelis, including more than a dozen separate attacks since last Saturday. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Men and women living in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere cannot carry groceries or travel to prayer without[Read More…]
UN Agency Calls for Robust Political Action to Halt Escalating Violence in West Bank
Many Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the West Bank are prevented from improving or building shelters by the Israeli authorities. Photo: UNRWA/Alaa Ghosheh West Bank–(ENEWSPF)–12 October 2015 – Deeply alarmed by the escalating violence and widespread loss of civilian life in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East[Read More…]
Statement from Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on Kunduz Condolence Payments to Victims of Doctors Without Borders Hospital Incident
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 12, 2015. The Department of Defense believes it is important to address the consequences of the tragic incident at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. One step the Department can take is to make condolence payments to civilian non-combatants injured and the families of civilian non-combatants[Read More…]
In and Around Park Forest Week of October 12, 2015
Looking east down the Cal Sag bike trail just east of Willow Springs road. Source: www.traillink.com. Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 12, 2015. The Sauk-Calumet Group of the Illinois Sierra Club will be meeting on Monday, October 12th at 7:15 p.m. at the Frankfort Public Library. This program will be about the[Read More…]
