From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): Cameroon is facing three human rights crises — all at the same time. In the Far North, government forces battle with the armed group Boko Haram in ongoing conflict that threatens to catch millions in … Continued
From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/): Donald Trump and Jared Kushner set into motion a scheme to privatize Medicare, just a bit at a time, before they left the White House in disgrace. Kushner set up, and Trump approved, a pilot … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): Sign up to be notified when registration opens for the new film offering from Interfaith Power & Light! This year’s Faith Climate Action Week featured film is Youth v Gov, a powerful film that … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): We did it! All eyes are finally on public education funding in PA! We are so proud of the work you are doing to support the school funding lawsuit in your communities and in Harrisburg. … Continued
From the #ShutDownBerks Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownBerksCoalition/): The Biden administration & ICE resumed immigrant detention at Berks. A year into his presidency, Biden fails to close down this prison. Now ICE is currently incarcerating as many as 65 women at Berks. The … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Clean Air Council has helped our supporters submit almost 1,800 official comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support and strengthen the proposed pollution standards for new and existing gas drilling sites, … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): Climate can’t wait. Every day of inaction costs us dearly. Many of our communities have experienced the severe impacts of climate change: wildfires, superstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and increasingly intense weather phenomena that cause … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/04/major-breakthrough-south-african-scientists-replicate-moderna-vaccine “We didn’t have help from the major Covid vaccine producers, so we did it ourselves,” said Gerhardt Boukes, chief scientist at the South African company Afrigen. JAKE JOHNSON February 4, 2022 South African scientists have created a close replica … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Many of us probably remember catching chicken pox from a sibling—and maybe having your mom rubbing calamine lotion on you before leaving for work and instructing you to not scratch and to get some rest. She’d … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-02-07/education/report-pa-scholarship-tax-credit-lacks-transparency/a77728-1 February 7, 2022 – Emily Scott, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window A corporate tax break in Pennsylvania funding scholarship programs for K-12 private and religious schools lacks sufficient data to determine its success, … Continued