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The Water Question In the Occupied Lands
Israel steals the Palestinian's water then sells it back to them at 15 times the price the illegal Israeli settlers pay...
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 7:38am PDT
International Tenants’ Day Brings Struggle Abroad and at Home
Today is International Tenant’s Day, as proclaimed by the Union of Tenants (IUT), a coalition of 54 members associations in 44 countries that is dedicated to safeguard tenants’ rights. Based out of Stockholm, Sweden, the IUT publishes a quarterly magazine (“Global Tenant”) that publicizes tenant struggles throughout the world, conducts seminars on tenant issues, and works in partnership with various United Nations agencies, including the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the UN Center for...
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 7:31am PDT
US: Millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage
Many older Americans reliant on Medicare prescription drug coverage are now being confronted with the so-called “doughnut-hole” written into Part D, the drug benefit plan legislated in 2003. Some 3 million beneficiaries are expected see an end to federal payments for their medicines as they reach an annual spending cap, and will then be forced to choose between paying thousands of dollars for their prescriptions and going without....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 6:10am PDT
Walkin' to New Orleans
We marched for 130 miles through the Katrina devastation along the Gulf with "Iraq Veterans Against the War", "Veterans For Peace" and VVAW. Six days of brotherhood and sisterhood. The Iraq vets all thought that they were back in Iraq--they couldn't believe they were here in the USA, and this was 8 months after Katrina and NOTHING had been done......
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 11:43pm PDT
East Timor left to flounder in poverty and unemployment
A great deal of hypocrisy surrounded the UN debate on East Timor last month. As Australia and its rivals jockeyed for position in a new UN mission in Dili, all expressed their concerns for the well-being of the East Timorese. Nothing demonstrates the complete indifference of the “international community” for the plight of the local population so much as the deepening social crisis in one of the world’s poorest countries....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:21am PDT
Size Matters When We’re Talking About Condoms
Different condoms work better for different people’s needs, sexual styles, and preferences. And even *technique* must be explored, alone, prior to penetration with partners. I am asking men to *practice* condom use, alone, before using condoms with partners. I am saying that responsible males *will* spend some time trying different brands, sizes, and techniques for putting them on, keeping them on without losing fluids, and even graceful removal....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 9:16pm PDT
Foster Kids Who “Aged Out” Gather As Family
I am asking that any of you that are from this child protection institution and foster care “aging out” past reach out to others, as your brothers and sisters, as family. If you were in an institution, you could post something asking for other adult survivors of the place to contact you, via the internet. Be a hub of action for your brothers and sisters from foster care. Help each other heal from past isolation, violations, etc. and also branch out, reach out to local kids JUST ABOUT TO “AGE ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 6:57pm PDT
FCC approves revised rules for digital kids TV
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously accepted revised rules that limit the amount of commercial material broadcast on digital television intended for children....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 4:16pm PDT
Hey, FDA! Ethnic Americans Eat Spinach, Too
In national emergencies like the recent outbreak of E. coli in spinach, it's time for government agencies to remember to call the nation's ethnic media, a primary source of information for millions of Americans. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health editor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 6:31am PDT
Katrina Evacuees in Houston Face Lack of Health Care, Jobs, and FEMA Assistance
Over one hundred twenty thousand Katrina evacuees still live in Houston, Texas. A recent study shows ninety-eight percent are African American, three quarters earn less than $15,000 per year, almost half have no health insurance, and less than twenty percent are employed. Many could soon lose assistance from FEMA. Two organizers tell us how the community is responding....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:39am PDT
A national disgrace: sick 9/11 workers left without medical coverage
70 percent with respiratory ailments...
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:20am PDT
New Yorkers Tell Federal Officials To Stop Ignoring 9/11's Health Effects
Hundreds of residents gathered last night at New York's St. Paul's Chapel - across the street from the former World Trade Center site -- to demand the federal government stop ignoring the health effects from 9/11. We hear some of their voices....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:20am PDT
Peacetalks: Alan Jenkins, New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina. (audio/mpeg 29.5MB)
Interview with Alan Jenkins, Executive Director of the Opportunity Agenda about the report he co-authored on the housing situation in New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 8:13am PDT
(mp3) interview with malik rahim on the first anniversay of the founding of common ground
mp3, interview is located here
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=19665...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 8:11am PDT
Worsening food insecurity in Africa
A report by the development charity Oxfam, “Causing Hunger: An Overview of the Food Crisis in Africa,” finds that the food crisis in Africa is continuing to worsen. In the 1960s Oxfam provided part of the impetus to set up the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Freedom from Hunger Campaign, aimed at reducing food insecurity. That campaign has failed miserably in Africa....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 6:35am PDT
Aspartame Awareness Weekend
This weekend with Aspartame Awareness globally we will be mailing out the Report to Schools on the release, new reports from world experts on what aspartame does to the brains of our children, in our Save the Children project. Everyone should get involved. It can save the lives of thousands....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 11:25am PDT
One year after Katrina
Just came back to Santa Cruz after being in New Orleans. It's nice to be back, where people's homes are intact and not everything is toxic. My heart is heavy though, thinking about the people of New Orleans who have lost so much and continue to suffer....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 9:52pm PDT
Germany: Health “reforms” at the expense of the working population
It is becoming ever clearer that the impending health “reforms” to be introduced by the German government herald a fundamental change in Germany’s welfare state at the expense of ordinary working people....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 9:03am PDT
BTL:FDA Approves OTC Sale of Morning-After Pill Decision excludes women under18
Interview with Ted Miller, communications director for NARAL ProChoice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 4:38am PDT
Katrina Wounds Slow to Heal for South Asian Community
A day before Hurricane Katrina hit last year, New Orleans residents Quamrun Zinia, husband Riyad Ferdous and their little kid got into a car. At 11:00 a.m., they set off. They just packed stuff for their kid. Then they drove 400 miles to seek shelter with Zinia's brother who lived in the Houston suburb of Belleville. It was a category five warning, and evacuation was mandatory....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:29am PDT