Unprecedented Momentum for Drug Policy Reform Continues to Spread Throughout Latin America NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—March 24, 2014. This week, legislators from the Mexican Congress and the Mexico City Assembly will be in DC and NY to discuss the bills they introduced to decriminalize the consumption and purchase of marijuana for personal[Read More…]
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In and Around Park Forest Week of March 24, 2014
See the movie Do The Math Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—March 24, 2014. If you’re concerned about the environment, or are a ‘climate change skeptic,’ join your neighbors at Park Forest’s Unitarian Universalist Community Church, 70 Sycamore Drive for the screening of the documentary film ‘Do the Math.’ The event will be[Read More…]
Sir Richard Branson, LT. Gov. Gavin Newsom, and SF DA George Gascon to Discuss More Humane Approach to the Failed War on Drugs
Event will feature special screening of Film ‘Breaking the Taboo’ CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. Sundog Pictures announced it will be holding a special screening of its groundbreaking documentary “Breaking the Taboo,” about the failed war on drugs, in San Francisco. The screening will be held at 5.30pm on Tuesday, March 25at[Read More…]
As Chicago’s Policies Turn Away Mental Health Patients, Protesters to Hold Vigil at Cook County Jail to Show Where They End Up
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 24, 2014. With the city poised to terminate hundreds of paying clients from its mental health clinics, mental health advocates will hold a vigil outside of the state’s largest mental health provider – Cook County Jail – to draw attention to the place that people struggling with mental illness[Read More…]
STEM@PSC Program Gives Chemistry Student Opportunity to Thrive
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. Prairie State College (PSC) student Daniel Eichler tried the traditional path to higher education. The 2007 Marian Catholic Academy graduate actually spent one year enrolled at Eastern Illinois University studying chemistry right after high school. But, after that year, he began to question the path he[Read More…]
Gene Implicated in Progression and Relapse of Deadly Breast Cancer
Finding Points to Potential Achilles’ Heel in Triple Negative Breast Cancer NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014 — Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Houston Methodist have found that a gene previously unassociated with breast cancer plays a pivotal role in the growth and progression of the triple negative form of[Read More…]
Study Finds Rapid Cross-Resistance to Bt incorporated GE Maize
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. A study by an entomologist at Iowa State University in Ames Iowa found that western corn rootworm is now resistant to two varieties of Bt-incorporated genetically engineered (GE) maize and that resistant insects are likely to be cross-resistant. This study adds to the growing scientific literature[Read More…]
California to Comply with Voter Registration Law According to Settlement
ACLU, Demos, and Project Vote threatened legal action if state failed to act SACRAMENTO–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. In a victory for voting rights, the state of California has agreed to mail voter registration cards to nearly 4 million Californians who have signed up for health insurance through the state health exchange,[Read More…]
Navy Prepares Black Box Locator for Flight 370 Search
PHILIPPINE SEA—(ENEWSPF)–MMarch 24, 2014 – U.S. Pacific Command has ordered U.S. Pacific Fleet to move a black box locator into the region where searchers are continuing efforts to locate Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8 shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing. Officials said the order[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry With OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu Re: Removal of Chemical Weapons from Syria
The Hague, The Netherlands–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. DIRECTOR GENERAL UZUMCU: Mr. Secretary, we are very pleased to receive you here at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This is the first visit by a Secretary of State from the United States to our organization. We are, of course, very[Read More…]
