Community Group’s New Space Offers Access to Jobs, Immigrants’ Rights Programs Chicago, IL –(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2017. Latino Union of Chicago’s new office, which opened last week in the heart of the thriving Lawrence Avenue business district, will provide employers and community members alike with easier access to economic development and[Read More…]
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In Case You Missed It: Drug Policy Alliance — Why Conservatives Should Oppose Jeff Sessions and the Drug War
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2017 The Hill Jeff Sessions will double down on failed drug war By: Grant Smith, opinion contributor, February 2, 2017 With Jeff Sessions’ inching closer to becoming the next attorney general, concerns continue to mount that Sessions will use his newfound powers to escalate the failed war[Read More…]
Marian Catholic Takes Top Honors in IHSA Regional Individual Speech Events; Southland College Prep Places First in Performance in the Round Event
RICHTON PARK, IL.—(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017—Marian Catholic High School, the Chicago Heights, Illinois speech powerhouse, won first place in the Illinois High School Association’s Regional Individual Speech Event tournament for 12 Chicago southwest suburban area high schools hosted by Southland College Prep Charter High School, Richton Park, Saturday, February 4. Marian[Read More…]
Kassandra Frederique, Drug Policy Alliance’s Black History Month Series Visionary, Talks Owning Our Narratives
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017 By: Kirsten West Savali Crack babies, welfare queens, superpredators, thugs. That’s what they call us; those are the lies they tell about us. The war on drugs—a war on the most vulnerable and targeted black and brown communities in the United States of America—shapes black history[Read More…]
Black History Month Conference at Roosevelt University Marks 50 Years of Black Power Movement
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017. Fifty years after the first shout of “Black Power” rang out during a pivotal Mississippi civil rights march, Roosevelt University will host a conference, “From Civil Rights to Black Power: Tracing the African American Freedom Struggle” on Feb. 17 and 18. Presented by Chicago Student Nonviolent Coordinating[Read More…]
Must Watch Video: Speaker of British House of Commons Opposing Trump Visit to Parliament
UK–(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017 By VTGenie “[A]s far as this place [the House of Commons] is concerned, I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons.” Text[Read More…]
VoteVets Releases Blistering New Ad, Telling Trump To Start Acting Like a Legitimate President (Video)
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—February 6, 2017. The largest progressive group of veterans in America, with over 500,000 supporters, VoteVets.org, is today releasing a blistering new television ad that takes on Donald Trump’s initial moves as President. The spot debuted on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” a show Trump reportedly watches daily, to get[Read More…]
Hour of Code Connects Computer Scientists with Young Students
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017 By Carla Reiter By the time most students get to middle school, they are experts at using cell phones and playing video games. But few understand how the technologies work or who writes the programs that make them run. Changing that is the idea behind Hour of[Read More…]
Artists Selected for Nationwide Women Veterans Art Exhibit
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–February 6, 2017. Ten women Veteran artists have been selected to showcase their work at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers around the country in March, to coincide with Women’s History Month. “It is our hope that this exhibit will provide insight into the diverse experiences of women[Read More…]
UN Renews Call for Protection of Afghan Civilians, After Casualty Figures Spike in 2016
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–6 February 2017 – Attacks in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and pro-Government troops killed or injured more children and other civilians in 2016 than at any other time since the United Nations began keeping records, it was announced today. According to[Read More…]
