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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
Medicare premiums to rise significantly for 1.6 million in US A new mechanism for determining income-based premiums for Medicare’s Part B program has gone into effect beginning January 1, driving up monthly premium costs for 1.6 million enrollees. Senior citizens enrolled in the plan could see their Medicare costs rise from $1,122 per year to as much as $1,937 by 2009....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 7:04am PST
Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out On the eve of the second anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, a WSWS reporting team visited Matara to meet tsunami survivors. Matara, one of the worst hit areas, is a coastal town, 160 kilometres south of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 10:24am PST
Two years after the Asian tsunami: thousands still suffering in India On the second anniversary of the December 2004 Asian tsunami, many survivors in Indian coastal villages and the Andaman and Nicobar islands still face atrocious conditions, including lack of proper housing, sanitary conditions and livelihoods. The disaster killed around 14,000 people in India and another 2.7 million people were affected. Most of the victims were from fishing communities....
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 6:18am PST
Angela Davis Speaks Out on Prisons and Human Rights Abuses in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Scholar and former prisoner Angela Davis was in New Orleans this month to speak out against human rights violations and demand amnesty for those imprisoned during Hurricane Katrina. We hear from her keynote address at the event "Amnesty for Prisoners of Katrina: A Weekend of Reconciliation and Respect for Human Rights."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 9:19am PST
Praise for Bush HIV Waiver Is Premature The White House's move to provide waivers for HIV-positive individuals to enter the U.S. was greeted with much praise in the HIV/AIDS community, but the devil is in the details, warns Adam Francoeur, program coordinator for the New York-based Immigration Equality. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 9:17am PST
Britain: Poorer student numbers fall as tuition fees are hiked up The number of undergraduates applying to enrol in university courses in England this year fell by 15,000 compared with 2005. The fall is almost entirely due to the September introduction of new tuition “top-up” fees of £3,000 a year. This amount replaces the previous system of fees introduced by the Blair government in which £1,000 was paid up-front....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 6:51am PST
40th Season of Kwanzaa: Celebrating the Women and A Few Good Men, 2007 Farm Bill Debate 
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables will be available to every "Child in America,"
if the Women and A Few Good Men have a leadership role in the 2007 Farm Bill Debate....
Posted: Mon, Dec 25, 2006 8:21pm PST
German Social Democratic Party chairman badmouths the unemployed Kurt Beck, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and prime minister of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a media professional. It would be naïve to think that his recent badmouthing of an unemployed person before a crowd of journalists was some sort of thoughtless mistake....
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 12:49pm PST
Britain: Conservative Party feigns concern for the poor—the better to oppose welfare Last week the Conservative Party issued “Breakdown Britain—an interim report on the state of the nation.” The document was produced by the party’s Social Justice Policy Group (SJPG), set up by Conservative leader David Cameron and chaired by former leader Iain Duncan Smith....
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 12:49pm PST
Survivor of Congenital Arteriovenous Malformation Speaks About Sen. Johnson's Illness and Her Recovery Donna Cappella suffered AVM a year and a half ago. She is the former business manager here at Downtown Community Television. Donna talks about how she had to re-learn how to walk, speak, read and see....
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 7:12am PST
Berlin Senate adopts new austerity measures At the beginning of December, the Berlin Senate (city council), a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Left Party-Party of Democratic Socialism, agreed on a financial plan covering 2006 to 2010. The axis of this plan is the continuation of the strict budget consolidation that has already created a social disaster in the capital, which is unparalleled throughout Germany....
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 6:52am PST
Denying Disaster: Katrina and the Case for Impeachment The Bush administration's mishandling of one of our time's most crucial issues-global climate change-constitutes a clear and extremely serious case of the abuse of power. Further, their stunning incompetence and criminal recklessness in the face of Hurricane Katrina also constitutes a necessary and sufficient justification for their removal from office....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 8:33pm PST
Something's Fishy in Your Good Humor Bar Unilever, the British-Dutch global consumer marketing products giant, is the largest producer of ice cream and frozen novelties in the U.S. Unilever's brands sold in the U.S. include Breyer's ice cream, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Klondike ice cream bars and Popsicle products....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 8:33pm PST
Justice Alert!! Demonstration in front of San Bernardino Courthouse Demonstration planned in front of Courthouse to protest "soylent green" operation--turning the elderly into cash for predatory lawyers and guardians....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 1:03pm PST
US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use A startling decrease in US breast cancer rates in 2003 may be attributable to the fact that millions of older women stopped using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002, according to researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 9:16am PST
US: Hundreds sickened by contaminated food Reports of food-related outbreaks in the US have become a regular occurrence in the past few months, raising concerns about the safety of the food supply. Since September, officials from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported seven major outbreaks implicated in more than 1,100 cases of food poisoning, hundreds of hospitalizations, and at least three deaths....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 9:15am PST
Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian rural areas One of the worst droughts of the past century is having a devastating impact on farmers and rural communities across much of Australia....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 9:14am PST
Going Postal 
Ralph Nader discusses the need for Postal Reform. He proposes more respect for postal workers and an independent non-profit Post Office Consumer Action Group....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 11:09am PST
Another Hungry and Homeless X-mas Most Americans were probably too busy shopping until they dropped to notice, but the U.S. Conference of Mayors just released its latest findings on hunger and homelessness in America. It's not full of holiday cheer. It also doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. Unless you've been comatose for at least the last decade. According to the report, more people were hungry and homeless in this country in 2006 than they were in 2005. Over the past several years, the number of people in ne...
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 8:56am PST
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