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African-American Groups Call on Black America to Renew Efforts to Fight HIV and Homophobia
The NAACP, National Urban League and other civil rights groups have launched a major new effort to fight AIDS and homophobia within the African-American community. We speak with the executive director of the Black AIDS Institute that is spearheading the initiative....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 8:15am PDT
AIDS Brain Drain: Countries Hit Hardest by AIDS Lacking Millions of Medical Workers
The World Health Organization warned earlier this week that the countries hit hardest by AIDS desperately need 4 million more health workers to cope with the crisis. Many of the locally-trained doctors and nurses in these countries have been lured away to the United States and Europe by higher salaries. We speak with Smita Baruah of Physicians for Human Rights....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 8:11am PDT
Katrina's Lessons, Would FEMA Bungle Another Disaster?
A year after Hurricane Katrina, the writer looks at the changes made to the federal disaster-management agency, and whether they would make a difference today. Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of the forthcoming, "The Emerging Black GOP Majority" (Middle Passage Press, September 2006), which examines President Bush's and the GOP's courting of black voters....
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 9:02am PDT
America Abandons Fight Against Homelessness
It has become clear in recent months that ending homelessness is no longer on America’s political radar screen. Terrorism, global warming, the war in Iraq, the ongoing health care crisis, rising gas prices---these are the issues that concern Americans, who have become as resigned to seeing people on the streets as they are to the latest Bush Administraton fiasco. UCSF’s recent study of San Francisco’s homeless population over the past 14 years was given front-page coverage in the San Francisc...
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Activist blog at global AIDS conference puts the sex and drugs back into HIV prevention
TimeToDeliver.org: Independent Blog Puts the Sex and Drugs Back into
AIDS through Honest Coverage at International AIDS Conference...
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 1:50pm PDT
Student AIDS Activists Applaud Breakthrough in Gilead’s Policies on AIDS Drugs for Global
The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is applauding what it calls “important steps forward and major new promises” taken by Gilead in making its AIDS drugs Tenofovir (Viread) and Truvada affordable and available in Africa and the global South. The Student Global AIDS Campaign—a national network of AIDS activists in high schools and colleges—has been running a campaign focused on Gilead since this winter. That campaign has engaged students from across the country in asking the company to rec...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 5:44pm PDT
California Food & Justice Coalition August 2006 Newsletter
In this Issue
:: CFSC Conference and Dismantling Racism Training in Vancouver, October
7-11
:: WIC Receives a Nutritional Upgrade
:: Federal Farm Bill Discussions Brew
:: California Fresh Start Program
:: 2006 State and Federal Legislation Update
:: South Central Farm Update
:: Member Announcements jobs, events, alerts and more......
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 11:28pm PDT
Katrina Lessons – One Year Later: Talk About Katrina Poverty Was Just That, Talk
One year after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the talk about a war on poverty turned out to be just that, talk. There’s no reason to think that will change, says New America Media’s Associate Editor, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Hutchinson is the author of the forthcoming The Emerging Black GOP Majority (Middle Passage Press, September 2006), a look at Bush and The GOP’s court of black voters....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 1:22pm PDT
Public Transit Could Transform The Quality Of Life For Workers And The Environment
Having destroyed it once, public transit, like health care and education, is a project that US capitalism is incapable of providing its citizens....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 10:00am PDT
Children Who Are Forbidden To Cry
Beating kids stops crying. What a statement, eh? You would think beating children would make them cry. But if the beatings are severe enough, they make children NOT cry. We see this in concentration camps, in war, in child protection institutions and foster care...I would assume that mental state of *not crying when in fear* is called “trauma.” Many survivors of severe child abuse are just now learning to cry as adults...the lost tears of their childhood....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 9:04am PDT
BTL:Bush Stem Cell Bill Veto Another Christian Right Victory Over Common Good
Interview with Esther Kaplan, author of "With God on Their Side," conducted by Between the Lines'Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 8:36am PDT
Poor Pay More -- Report Documents High Price of Being Broke
Beset by a lack of low-cost retailers and a surplus of predatory lenders, Baltimore's poor pay more on average for basic goods and financial services than higher-income families, according to a report released this month by the Brookings Institute....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 5:25pm PDT
The Queens Blackouts: Kenneth Lay's Revenge?
At first glance, the Queens blackouts don't resemble the Enron-engineered blackouts that struck California six years ago. But a closer look reveals a similar story of energy deregulation and corporate unaccountability. Commentator Bill Weinberg is editor of World War 4 Report....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 5:23pm PDT
FEMA slashes emergency assistance for future disaster victims
A month and a half into the 2006 hurricane season, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced an overhaul in core disaster relief programs. The biggest change is a sharp cut in emergency cash assistance to families, which will be slashed under the new rules from the $2,000 previously allowed per household to $500....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 10:10pm PDT
Support Emergency Management Reform Act
It is urgent that you call the Senate Committee on Homeland Security at (202) 224-4751 and urge them to support S. 3271, the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 10:09pm PDT
The Queens blackout: the brutal human costs of Con Ed’s drive for profit
More than a week after Con Edison’s aging infrastructure buckled under the impact of a heat wave, plunging residents of a large swathe of New York City’s borough of Queens into darkness and sweltering heat, at least 10,000 people remained without electric power Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 10:24pm PDT
Doctor and nurses arrested in Katrina-related deaths
On orders from Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti Jr., police arrested a doctor and two nurses Tuesday in connection with the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 8:22am PDT
Tell Congress to Oppose Shutdown Bills
Stop Congress from approving the creation of an unelected "Sunset Commission" which could undo our nation's vital human needs and social service programs!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 10:48pm PDT
DESPERATELY NEEDED: MEDIA ACTIVISTS TO SUPPORT KATRINA SURVIVORS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
A great opportunity to help in the lower ninth ward with media organizing....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 10:26am PDT
Canadian government indifferent to Israel’s murder of eight of its citizens
Canada’s Conservative government has responded to the murder of eight Canadian citizens in an Israeli air strike with a shrug of its shoulders....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:29pm PDT