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2007 Farm Bill: Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy 
Emerging Black Farmers throughout the United States and abroad join the effort to seek balance in the U.S. Farm and Food Policy. A new opportunity to demonstrate our unique cultural expression as equal partners in Food, Fiber, Fuel and Financial markets of our global Agriculture industry is at hand. Broad based community support is necessary to assist the Congressional Black Caucus reduce the impacts of race and poverty directly related to food insecurity. Black Farmers and Agriculturalist...
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 9:00pm PST
New Push for Social Security "Reform" Flushed with "Surge" Surrender,Democrats Eye Fresh Sell-Out Scheme...
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 8:37am PST
California's Food Landscape Encourages Obesity Fast food stores outnumber healthier eating options all across the state, according to a new study released Jan. 19. Viji Sundaram is health editor for New America Media....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 8:11am PST
2007 Farm Bill: Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope 
Urban Agriculture is a viable solution to many of the adverse health impacts in low, low, food security communities. Let us duplicate and support the positive examples of success in the 2007 Farm Bill. California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association will help celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Congressional Black Caucus with a strong push to highlight our queen sista consistent efforts to bring seeds of justice and seeds of hope to black folk who need it most....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:47pm PST
Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs The new documentary “Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs ” looks at how illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created by pharmaceutical companies to make greater profits. We play an excerpt....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:47am PST
Historic mobilizations will usher in "new phase" in Campaign for Fair Food! PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announces a major mobilization for farmworker justice, April 13 14, 2007, in the greater Chicago area. Make your plans to join us for historic actions that will usher in a new phase in the Campaign for Fair Food.
CIW: "Today, we are tired, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., of`relying on the good will and understanding of those who profit by exploiting us.'"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 7:43am PST
Why Children's Hospitals Sell Junk Food The majority of children’s hospitals sell fast food on-site because just like public schools they’re desperate for funding, writes New America Media contributor Rahul K. Parikh, MD, FAAP....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 10:08am PST
Report details spread of global AIDS epidemic Last year saw a major spread of the global AIDS epidemic. According to the report “2006 Aids Epidemic Update” published by the United Nations bodies UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 39.5 million people now live with HIV, and in 2006 alone 4.3 million became infected with the HIV virus and 2.9 million died from the effects of AIDS....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 10:39am PST
Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless The Paris Administrative Tribunal has twice defended the right of an openly racist organisation, Solidarité des Français (SDF), to offer pig soup to homeless people in Paris, deliberately excluding those whose religion or customs forbid this food....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 10:37am PST
House Approves Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research The House today passed, by a bipartisan vote of 253-174, a bill that would allow federal funding of stem cell research utilizing donated human embryos, and would have the effect of greatly expanding the number of stem cell lines available to researchers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 5:27pm PST
Support Stem Cell Research Funding -- Contact the House Today Next on their agenda and ours is stem cell funding and, with your help, we can secure a victory on this issue...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 12:21pm PST
Dems '100 Hours' Agenda Does Little to Address Economic Divide Between Whites and People of Color House Democrats are set to begin their first "100 legislative hours" today. A new study has found their new agenda does little to address the economic divide between whites and people of color. We speak with the executive director of United for a Fair Economy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:12am PST
Report: Gates Foundation Causing Harm With the Same Money It Uses To Do Good The Los Angeles Times has revealed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made millions of dollars each year from companies blamed for many of the same social and health problems the Foundation seeks to address. We speak with the lead reporter on the LA Times investigative team that broke the story....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:11am PST
Hundreds missing after Indonesian ferry sinks Nine days after the Indonesian ferry, Senopati Nusantara or Archipeligo Commander, sank in stormy conditions in the Java Sea, 15 people who had been drifting in a life raft were rescued on Sunday by a passing ship. One of the survivors, an 18-year-old suffering from asthma, died within hours. The others, who had survived by sharing water and emergency rations, were weak and sunburned, but otherwise safe....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:05am PST
New York City’s new transit boss gets $40,000 raise The newly appointed chief of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority last week was awarded a raise of $42,000, a pay boost that is approximately equivalent to the annual salary of many of the city’s transit workers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:05am PST
Medical research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll In December 2006, it was revealed that Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, had taken large amounts of money from industry. The revelation caused little more than a ripple of interest in the media, as the entire British scientific establishment stepped forward as one man to defend the reputation of Doll, who died last year....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 8:51am PST
The High Price of No Health Insurance Health insurance is a luxury for California’s 6.6 million uninsured, which live under financial strain or the fear of deportation. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new health plan could help some of the state’s neediest by redirecting tax money to buy insurance for the uninsured. Viji Sundaram is health care editor at New America Media....
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 11:32am PST
AIDS AND IMPERIALISM: THE WORLD AIDS AGENDA We are currently witnessing the criminal negligence of the pharmaceutical industry, of the Bush administration and of other governments and institutions, in the limitation of access to antiretrovirals (ARV) for people who live with HIV or AIDS, particularly in Africa, a continent besieged by HIV/AIDS. Neither the pharmaceutical companies who have ARVs, nor the governments who have the money, nor the governments who could amend their laws to make inexpensive generic ARVs available, none are p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 4:02pm PST
Dirty War Against Defenders of Human Rights in Oaxaca January 2nd, 2007 - Civil Organizations in Oaxaca write: Slander Campaign Against the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights (LIMEDDH), and its director, Yésica Sánchez Maya....
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 12:49pm PST
India’s Social Safety Net Fraying On a return home, an Indian American notices India’s social safety breaking under the weight of industrialization and globalization....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 2:15pm PST
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