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United Nations conference offers derisory level of aid for millions hit by food prices
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
US: FEMA trailers caused at least 17,000 illnesses among Katrina survivors
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
V.P. Candidate wants U.S. ethanol production cut to feed poor
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
June 2008 Friendly Fire Newsletter!
Welcome to the June 2008 Friendly Fire Newsletter!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 12:10am PDT
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved
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
Act Now! Sweeping Budget Cuts Proposed For Santa Cruz County Health Services!
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
49ers have no intention to make their permanent home in the middle of Chernobyl - no way.
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
The world food crisis and the capitalist market
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
A reply to supporters of "humanitarian" intervention into Burma
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
Pulverization of the Bevatron will spread radioactive dust across the East Bay
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
Fresno Homeless Residents Win Settlement Over City’s Destruction of Personal Property
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
Victims Tricked Out of Their Homes
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
Food Stamp Use Spikes in California
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
South Florida Union Movement Wins Key Support for Health Care Reform
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
Record numbers using food stamps in Ohio, Michigan
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
Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM) very upbeat to take on Lennar and its dubious ploys.
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
"Weapons of Moth Destruction" Film Screening & Benefit
Roxie Theater
3117 -16th Street
San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 7:15pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 5:12pm PDT
Press release: Richmond Community Opposes Chevron's Project to Refine Dirtier Oil
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
Insurance Denied to Women With C-Section History
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
Hundreds of thousands displaced by severe Sri Lankan floods
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