Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/systemic-violations-worker-rights-us-comes-dead-last-labor-rankings-wealthy-nations Published on Thursday, June 18, 2020 by Common Dreams The U.S. was identified as a country where “the government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers, putting fundamental rights under … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/now-thats-how-you-hold-bible-pope-francis-calls-fossil-fuel-divestment-serve-planet Published on Thursday, June 18, 2020 by Common Dreams “The Vatican’s call for divestment is a breath of hope in times when faith is more needed than ever,” said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben. “It is a powerful … Continued
From Pennsylvania Common Cause: (https://www.commoncause.org/pennsylvania/): Pennsylvanians across the state, especially Black and Latinx voters, faced barriers to the ballot box during our primary election — but Election Day might have been even more difficult had a vote-by-mail option not been … Continued
Posted at https://www.clasp.org/press-room/press-releases/supreme-court-rules-daca-cancellation-was-illegal-over-250000-american Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The 5-4 ruling concludes that the Trump Administration violated the Administrative Procedures Act when terminating the program, and therefore the … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): On June 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the 800,000 DACA recipients living in the U.S., overturning the administration’s cruel termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. While this … Continued
Posted at https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-pa-is-one-of-three-states-recognized-by-cdc-for-covid-19-reduction-success/ June 17, 2020 As states across the country begin to reopen and nearly half are seeing COVID-19 cases rise, Governor Tom Wolf announced Friday that Pennsylvania is not one of them. Today at a daily COVID briefing with Health … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): No mother should ever have to fear the death of a loved one at the hands of those charged with the duty to protect and serve. Ever. *Join in the mobilization being led by the Movement … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): As the 2019-2020 school year comes to a close, school district administrators, teachers, staff, and board members are turning their attention to planning how they will safely educate students when the new school year … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Scroll down for action. Over the past three years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a series of regulatory rollbacks to the Clean Water Act — a bedrock environmental law that protects our nation’s waterways.1 Under … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): After the second warmest January to March since national temperature began being recorded in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is projecting a 75% chance that 2020 will be recorded as the … Continued