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(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
What Water Can Do -- Remembering My New Orleans Home, Lost for Now A woman born and raised in New Orleans is caught between remembering and willfully forgetting all the storm did to scatter her family and destroy her childhood home. Sarah M. Broom is an assistant editor at "O, The Oprah Magazine." She now lives in Harlem....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:27am PDT
BTL:One Year After Katrina, Reconstruction Efforts in New Orleans... 
...Gulf Coast Neglects Millions~Interview with Chris Kromm, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 4:11am PDT
One year after Katrina disaster: No accountability for US political elite President Bush visited New Orleans Tuesday, the anniversary of the city’s virtual destruction by Hurricane Katrina, and blandly admitted the indifference with which the US ruling elite responded to the greatest natural disaster in American history....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 6:35am PDT
One Year After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing Projects Remain Closed New Orleans activists and residents have condemned the federal government's refusal to re-open the city's public housing projects and point out that while tourist areas are being developed, affordable housing is not being built. Many of those who have been unable to return home are poor and African American. We speak with lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights lawyer, Tracie Washington....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:21am PDT
The Gulf Coast one year later: Indices of a social disaster One year ago today, in the early morning hours, Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf Coast of the US. Upon landfall, the Category 3 hurricane’s storm surge caused massive damage in the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. The region was pummeled by 145 mile-an-hour winds and waves 28 feet high, resulting in widespread flooding....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:18am PDT
Common Ground Collective Continues to Bring Volunteers For Post-Katrina Relief We speak with New Orleans community activist and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, Malik Rahim, about his continued relief efforts in the Gulf Coast, the racism in the federal government's response to the disaster and much more....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:04am PDT
Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation The catastrophe that is unfolding in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi has been transformed into a national humiliation without parallel in the history of the United States....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:18pm PDT
BTL:Washington Determined to Demolish New Orleans' Public Housing Interview with Elizabeth Cook, housing activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 4:42pm PDT
Stop Aug. 29 eminent domain deadline in New Orleans This call to action to stop eminent domain in New Orleans - also threatening Black communities in San Francisco and cities throughout the country - is taken from the Aug. 23 edition of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, and we are spreading the word through this list until our website, www.sfbayview.com, is back online. A popular website that drew 2 million hits a month, it's been badly hacked and is now under reconstruction....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 11:52am PDT
One year since Hurricane Katrina: the rebuilding of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast I recently traveled to Mississippi’s Gulf Coast with the volunteer organization Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) to assist in ongoing relief efforts there. It is painfully obvious, nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the region, that the market-based approach to relief and reconstruction has left the entire region devastated, generating even higher levels of social inequality....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 10:02am PDT
Britain: Labour government proposes punitive welfare reforms The Labour government’s Welfare Reform Bill published before the parliamentary recess seeks to force the most vulnerable members of society—the sick, single parents and older workers—off benefits and into work....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:20am PDT
Spike Gets It Right in 'Levees,' Says New Orleans Resident Spike Lee's 4.5-hour documentary on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina is mesmerizing. Just as important, the writer says, it's an evenhanded take on what went wrong, and a loving tribute to the city and its residents. Randy Fertel, a native New Orleanian, teaches the Literature of War and of Exile at the New School for Social Research. He directs the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, which is devoted to education in Louisiana. He serves as executive producer on the forthcoming documentary "Tootie's ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:10am PDT
Ethnic Media Share Survival Stories One Year After Katrina SAN FRANCISCO – The men in the office slept on the floor, had to forego bathing and ate rations provided by the National Guard, but they were able to broadcast nonstop after the devastating hurricane. The men were five dee jays for 1540 Radio Tropical Caliente, some of the workers for the ethnic media of New Orleans that survived Katrina to provide first response services and eventually overcome financial blows and play a role in the rebirth of the city....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:09am PDT
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