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BTL:New Orleans Homeowners Coalition Stops House Demolitions in Court Interview with Bill Quigley, attorney representing New Orleans homeowners, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 8:56am PST
General Assistance is broken The General Assistance program in San Francisco is broken....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 11:57am PST
New Medicare Plan Keeps Seniors Guessing On January 1, 2006, the new Medicare prescription-drug program began. Many Black residents in New York City – especially the low-income, disabled and seniors – remain uncertain about how the law will affect them. Grappling with information, most of them are confused and swamped with questions about the registration process, which drug plan is best for them, and what's covered and what's not....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:33am PST
Emergency Action in SF Federal Building Fri 1pm- Stop Bulldozing 9th Ward in New Orleans Friday, January 6, 2006 at 1:00pm
Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 12:31am PST
Solidarity with Lower 9th Ward City bulldozes homes in Lower 9th without contacting owners. No support for rebuilding offered (no trash pickup, no electrical power, no roof tarping, etc.) while Army Corps of Engineers pays the bill for bulldozing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 7:45pm PST
Tenant Organizers, Reporter Narrowly Avoid Illegal Arrest Police officers almost illegally arrested two tenant organizers and a San Francisco Chronicle reporter visiting residents of an apartment building at 57 Taylor Street last week. Organizers Alysabeth Alexander and Barbara Lopez, who have worked with 57 Taylor’s tenants for over a year to improve safety and habitability, were visiting a tenant who invited them there. The organizers brought Chronicle reporter Tyche Hendricks along to help her research an article. The manager of the building call...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 9:13pm PST
Reports document growing social inequality in Australia Last month, as corporate boardrooms toasted Australia’s “boom” economy, the Catholic charity organisation, the St Vincent de Paul Society, released a report documenting the growing gap between the country’s rich and poor....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:23pm PST
Tsunami survivors left to suffer on Andaman and Nicobar islands Just over a year ago, the December 26 tsunami devastated the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a low-lying and mostly uninhabited chain of 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. Officially, more than 3,000 people were confirmed dead and another 5,000 missing on the archipelago, which was the closest Indian territory to the earthquake’s epicentre. Aid agencies and local groups, however, believe that twice as many people died....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:23pm PST
Katrina refugees: ‘Whites only’ housing help America's continuing shame......
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 1:05pm PST
The Sangiacomo Family's Pattern of Behavior On 12/27/2004, I reported that Trinity Plaza tenants did not have heat and would greet 2005 shivering....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:24am PST
VIDEO: Direct Action in New Orleans: Chief Al's Stuff 10 min Quicktime video...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 10:42pm PST
New Orleans police killed 5 army contractors for blowing up levees! This would explain the demonization of the New Orleans police by the corporate media....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:23pm PST
The Best Housing & Poverty Review of 2005 A Years Review Of The Nation's Housing & Poverty Crisis In America....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 4:09pm PST
India’s tsunami victims abandoned One year after the tsunami devastated southern Asia, millions of people in the southern and eastern coastal areas of India are yet to return to their normal lives. Contrary to the big promises made by the national and Tamil Nadu state governments, relief and rehabilitation measures largely remain in the distant future....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 7:57pm PST
Stripping Grandma's Cupboard -- Congress Cuts Food Money to Grandparents Raising Kids Among the budget cuts that squeaked through Congress just before Christmas was a provision that will take food -- $400 million worth -- out of the already-bare cupboards of grandparent-headed households....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:26pm PST
Job lock-outs plus gentrification equals genocide “To understand what’s going on in Hunters Point you have to do an exhaustive study on gentrification,” says Khalid Muhammad, publisher of the magazine, First Impressions Home Improvement Guide. Muhammad grew up in Bayview Hunters Point and heads his own painting company, First Impressions Painting....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:02am PST
The Fat Years are Over Hardly anyone today dares financing the social state by cutting the armament budget.. The fat years are over! Three cheers for dispossession! Expropriation instead of representation!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 6:37am PST
The Tsunami, One Year Later: More Than A Million Still Homeless in Sri Lanka On this first anniversary of the tsunami that devastated South Asia, we look at the fallout for the people of Sri Lanka. We speak with the Sri Lankan ambassador to the United Nations, an anti-poverty activist in Sri Lanka, and a physician treating Tamil refugees....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:41am PST
49 Accused Of Bilking Red Cross Hurricane Funds 49 people have been indicted in a scheme that bilked thousands of dollars from a Red Cross fund designated for Hurricane Katrina victims, federal authorities said Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:08pm PST
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