In a 2015 ACLU-PA report — Guilty Property: How Law Enforcement Takes $1 Million in Cash from Innocent Philadelphians Every Year — and Gets Away with It — we argued for specific reforms to fix Pennsylvania’s broken and unfair civil … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Trump has issue an executive order to roll back protections for the Arctic Ocean. He also instructed his administration to review expanding offshore drilling – making it easier to drill in our coastal waters. In … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/05/01/head-smacker-misnamed-working-families-flexibility-act/#.WQiRbPkrIdU By Lecia Imbery May 1, 2017 Bills in Congress are named by those who write them, which means the name can sound good even if the bill actually does the opposite of what the title implies. That’s the … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-05-01/environment/message-to-gov-wolf-stop-methane-leaks/a57497-1 May 1, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Existing oil and gas infrastructure in Pennsylvania leaks 1,300 tons of air pollutants every year. (Jeremy Buckingham/Flickr) PHILADELPHIA – It’s time to … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/27/first-time-ever-majority-house-dems-support-medicare-all-bill Published on Thursday, April 27, 2017 by Common Dreams A record-breaking 104 House Democrats are co-sponsoring a Medicare-for-All bill By Nika Knight, staff writer A sign at a February Medicare-for-All rally in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/flickr/cc) As … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/26/because-its-time-new-radical-ideas-ted-talk-universal-basic-income-gets-thunderous Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 by Common Dreams ‘Just imagine how much talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all,’ said historian Rutger Bregman during talk By Andrea Germanos, staff … Continued
From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): Our friends at the Interfaith Network on Drone Warfare have made a 30 minute film designed to introduce faith groups to the topic of lethal drones: Moral and Safe? War, Peace, Drone … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/04/28/head-smacker-trump-plan-slashes-taxes-companies-already-dodging-taxes/#.WQiGBvkrIdU By Melissa Roark April 28, 2017 On April 26, the Trump Administration released a barebones outline of a tax agenda that would slash taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals. The plan would cut the tax rate by almost 60 percent … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): It’s crunch time. We still expect the GOP to call a floor vote on the ACA repeal bill, including the MacArthur Amendment, before Thursday when the House Members are scheduled to go on … Continued