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Regional powers provide a pittance in aid to tsunami victims in Solomon Islands The response of the Australian and New Zealand governments to the humanitarian crisis in Solomon Islands underlines their callous indifference toward the people of the Pacific island states. A massive earthquake triggered a tsunami on April 2, devastating much of the Western and Choiseul provinces and causing a series of landslides on Ranonga Island. Thousands of people have been displaced, leaving them vulnerable to disease and food shortages....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:02pm PDT
Our Broken Mental Health System Leaving aside the issue of WMM (Weapons of Mass Murder, aka guns), the massacre at Virginia Tech has something to teach us about the American mental health system. It's farcically easy for an American to be diagnosed as mentally ill: All you have to do is squirm in your fourth grade seat and you're likely to be hit with the label of A.D.D. and a prescription for Ritalin. But when a genuine whack-job comes along--the kind of guy who calls himself "Question Mark" and turns in essays on bloodbat...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 7:47pm PDT
Mexico City lawmakers pass abortion bill The article discusses how Mexico City finally passed a law to legalize abortion. Even though the law has passed, women can still be imprisoned for getting an abortion late too late in pregancy....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 1:43am PDT
Volunteer work is food for 90-year-old's soul Article about a 90 year old woman, Novelean Harris , is still volunteering at her church. Her work over the years has made a great different in her community....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:08pm PDT
Response to SF Chronicle This is a response to the SF Chronicle's criticism of Pro-Choice advocates using scientific/confusing terminology to further their cause....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:56pm PDT
Prozac Madness: A Killer Cocktail The lard-assed cops at Virginia Tech spent two hours interrogating the wrong suspect and failed to prevent the massacre. Now they're "investigating." What is there to investigate - which brand or brands of anti-depressant Seung Hui Cho was taking?...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:00am PDT
The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:28am PDT
Labour plans to gut National Health Service in Wales A statue of Aneurin Bevan in his characteristic oratorical posture stands in the centre of Cardiff commemorating the local left-wing MP who, as Minister of Health in the 1945 Labour government, founded the National Health Service....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:22am PDT
200 000 médicos y más! 
El Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez y el vicepresidente cubano Carlos Lage ratifican el Compromiso de Sandino. Se graduarán 200 000 médicos latinoamericanos en la década actual......
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:31am PDT
Climate Change and Affordable Housing: Time to Make a Strong Connection There’s no question the issue of climate change has reached a tipping point in America. Once relegated to technical journals and PBS documentaries, the national news media now splashes climate change issues across front pages and news broadcasts daily. States and cities throughout the country have begun their own initiatives to combat the problem, and the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate look poised to push the dialogue even further. One strategy in particular - increasing density i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:13am PDT
Breast Cancer Action E-Alert for California 1. TAKE ACTION: Educate and Advocate for Universal Health Care; Attend the Environmental Health Legislative Education Days; Support Breast Cancer Research in California
2. SAVE THE DATE: BCA Talks on the Politics of Cancer in Poplar and Monterey...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Yellowstone Park? No, Farragut Square park "The crime is camping, and here apparently it is a crime to lay on a bench because protecting a statue of David Farragut from everything except the pigeon shit is more important to our national heritage than are the poorest residents of our city who have no rooves over their heads."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 8:40am PDT
Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement 27 year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. Daniels is suffering from a deadly strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Doctors say he is virtually untreatable. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:17am PDT
BCA E-Alert April 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:18pm PDT
Free Market "Champions" Oppose Single-Payer Health Plan State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who represents Santa Monica, has authored one of the four prominent health care plans that challenge Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal. Kuehl’s plan—known as SB 840—is the only plan that offers comprehensive, single-payer health coverage to everyone in California. SB 840 calls for replacing the private health insurance companies with a statewide trust fund responsible for funding the program....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:41am PDT
Solomon Islands: tsunami causes humanitarian disaster At least 30 people are confirmed to have died in Solomon Islands after a massive earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale triggered a tsunami, which struck the western part of the country on Monday morning. The final death toll may be significantly higher and more than 5,000 are believed to be homeless. The Solomon Islands government has appealed for international assistance and declared a state of emergency for the Western and Choiseul Provinces and the northern part of Isabel Island....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:36am PDT
Subprime Lending Crisis: Millions of Families Face Losing Their Homes to Foreclosure 
Subprime loans have led to one million American families losing their homes in the past decade, a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending has found. In the last ten years, the subprime loan industry has emerged as a major, and controversial, player in the housing market. We speak with an attorney at the Center for Responsible Lending....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 7:11am PDT
The Subprime Tsunami Awards A tsunami has swept the land of sub-prime mortgages: most of which lies in the southern reaches of California, home of New Century Financial Corp, where the executives are cut from the same cloth that made Enron infamous. Soon the dry-cleaning will begin, and Robert K Cole, one of the founders of New Century Financial, is among the first ......
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 3:25pm PDT
Poverty rises in Britain as money poured into Iraq war The number of people living in poverty in Britain last year rose from 12.1 million to 12.7 million, a rise of 600,000 people, according to the latest government figures. The number of poor children increased by 200,000 to 3.8 million between 2005 and 2006, in what is the fourth richest country in the world....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 6:12am PDT
Shoddy structures led to workers’ deaths during West Australian cyclone Official investigations are still continuing into the deaths of three people, including two mining workers, and injuries of 28 others, in a category 4 cyclone (on a scale of 5) that hit the northwest coast of Western Australia on March 9....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 6:11am PDT
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