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textUnited Nations conference offers derisory level of aid for millions hit by food prices by wsws (reposted)
Monday, June 9, 2008 :The summit on soaring food prices, convened by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome last week, was dominated by fears of social unrest brought about by the rising price of food staples and a dramatic increase in the price of fuel....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 7:29am PDT
textUS: FEMA trailers caused at least 17,000 illnesses among Katrina survivors by wsws (reposted)
Monday, June 9, 2008 :Approaching three years since the devastation of the US Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, a public health nightmare continues for thousands of survivors who were housed in government-supplied trailers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 7:27am PDT
textV.P. Candidate wants U.S. ethanol production cut to feed poor by Stewart A. Alexander
A recent report prepared by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization identified 22 nations that are threaten by the global food crisis; riots, due to food shortages are now occurring in most of these poor countries. To prevent the escalation of the present world food crisis, Stewart Alexander, Vice Presidential Nominee for Socialist Party USA, wants a freeze or a roll back on U.S. ethanol production to the levels prior to December 2007....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 7:23am PDT
imageJune 2008 Friendly Fire Newsletter!
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by Friendly Fire Collective
Welcome to the June 2008 Friendly Fire Newsletter!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 12:10am PDT
textHEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved by IPS
HAVANA, Jun 6 (IPS) - New horizons opened up for transsexuals in Cuba with the approval of a Public Health Ministry resolution that establishes guidelines for their health care, including free gender reassignment operations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 9:35pm PDT
imageAct Now! Sweeping Budget Cuts Proposed For Santa Cruz County Health Services!
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by Tim Rumford
Sweeping Cuts to Santa Cruz County Health Services. Proposed Budget Reductions Report, meeting & rally info, short commentary. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING JUNE 20, 2008, 1:30 P.M. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 701 OCEAN STREET, 5TH FLOOR -- READ REPORT! THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ, HEALTH SERVICES AGENCY, IS RECOMMENDING THE FOLLOWING REDUCTIONS IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES BECAUSE OF REQUIRED REDUCTIONS IN THE AGENCY’S BUDGET. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO HOLD A PUBLIC H...
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 9:24pm PDT
text49ers have no intention to make their permanent home in the middle of Chernobyl - no way. by Francisco Da Costa
Lennar cannot fool all the people all the time. It surely cannot FOOL the forty five thousand people that voted YES on Proposition F in San Francisco. Come, November this number will increase 10 fold and it is this final number that will NAIL - Lennar once in and for all. Senator Diane Feinstein, Congress person Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Gavin Newsom and the other crooks can lick their chops. The MOVEMENT which has a well trained ground force - can rapidly mobilize and gather thousands of signatu...
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 12:42am PDT
textThe world food crisis and the capitalist market by wsws (reposted)
Saturday, June 7, 2008 :This is the first part of a three-part series of articles on the world food crisis. Part two will be posted June 9. As the June 3-5 Conference on World Food Security of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began in Rome, FAO Director Jacques Diouf said of the explosion of food prices: It is touching every country in the world....
Posted: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 8:51am PDT
textA reply to supporters of "humanitarian" intervention into Burma by wsws (reposted)
Saturday, June 7, 2008 :The World Socialist Web Site has received a number of emails critical of our article Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?. In one way or another, they all object to our refusal to support the campaign in the international media demanding that the Burmese junta open up the country to foreign aid officials and humanitarian assistance from foreign militaries....
Posted: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 8:50am PDT
calendarPulverization of the Bevatron will spread radioactive dust across the East Bay
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by Committee To Minimize Toxic Waste
2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way Berkeley, Ca...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 4:43pm PDT
imageFresno Homeless Residents Win Settlement Over City’s Destruction of Personal Property
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by Mike Rhodes
The homeless and their advocates achieved an enormous victory today. A Federal Court in Fresno approved a settlement of over $2 million for the destruction of their personal property. The settlement is the largest of its kind in the entire country. The photo below was taken in front of the Federal Courthouse, immediately after the settlement was announced. The person in the photo (center) is Pamela Kincaid. She was the lead plaintiff in the case who died under suspicious circumstances on...
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 3:50pm PDT
textVictims Tricked Out of Their Homes by NAM (reposted)
Originally From New America Media Friday, June 6, 2008 : More than 100 people filled the Inglewood High School auditorium in mid-May, hoping to leave Congresswoman Maxine Waters mortgage foreclosure town hall meeting with real plans to help them save their homes, or at least, with a better understanding of the foreclosure crisis....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 7:48am PDT
textFood Stamp Use Spikes in California by NAM (reposted)
Originally From New America Media Friday, June 6, 2008 : Drug Felons are now Eligible Inland Empire families, already reeling from the housing meltdown and soaring energy costs, are taking another hit to household budgets as food prices increase at the fastest rate since 1990....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 7:48am PDT
textSouth Florida Union Movement Wins Key Support for Health Care Reform by via Mike Hall, AFL-CIO
Friday, June 6, 2008 : Central labor councils around the country this spring launched campaigns to mobilize their members and local lawmakers and politicians around fixing the nation's broken health care system as part of the union movement's Labor 2008 political mobilization drive to "Turn Around America."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 7:46am PDT
textRecord numbers using food stamps in Ohio, Michigan by wsws (reposted)
Friday, June 6, 2008 :Nationally, the number of people using food stamps is due to reach 28 million by next year, tying a record for the program set in 1994. As one might expect, the number of people using food stamps in economically devastated Michigan and Ohio is particularly high; more than 1.25 milliona record numberof Michigan residents now receive food assistance, while the 1.1 million Ohio residents using food stamps represent a doubling of the number since 2001....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 7:29am PDT
textStop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM) very upbeat to take on Lennar and its dubious ploys. by Francisco Da Costa
Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM) has been meeting every Thursday, at the Grace Tabernacle Community Church at 6:30 pm for the last two years. Yesterday, was a historic day. Those gathered felt - they had sent a clear message to the City and County of San Francisco, the Rogue Company Lennar, and of course Senator Diane Feinstein and those cronies that have no business - messing with the lives of our children and elders in the Bayview Hunters Point....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 7:27am PDT
calendar"Weapons of Moth Destruction" Film Screening & Benefit by Lisa Abbott
Roxie Theater 3117 -16th Street San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 7:15pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 5:12pm PDT
documentPress release: Richmond Community Opposes Chevron's Project to Refine Dirtier Oil
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by dasw
For immediate release June 5, 2008 Community fears Bay Area pollution, local asthma and cancerrates will increase (Richmond, CA) Local residents and health advocates will gather today at5:30 PM in front of Kennedy High School (4300 Cutting Blvd., Richmond, CA94804) to tell the Richmond Planning Commission to cap the quality of crude oil processed at the Chevron refinery....
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 11:50am PDT
textInsurance Denied to Women With C-Section History by Feminist Majority (reposted)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 : Women who have had a Caesarean birth face higher insurance premiums, and have even been denied insurance all together....
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 7:00am PDT
textHundreds of thousands displaced by severe Sri Lankan floods by wsws (reposted)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 :Floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoonal rains in Sri Lankas southern and western provinces have forced nearly 400,000 people from their homes. The official death toll had reached 20 by Wednesday. The meteorological forecasts are for more rain and flooding in the coming days....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 10:10pm PDT
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