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More Than 3 Million Seniors Will Fall Into Medicare Donut Hole in 2008 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 : This will not be a happy New Year for millions of seniors. More seniors than ever are expected to fall into the Medicare Part D donut hole in 2008, the coverage gap that requires seniors to pay the full cost of their prescription drugs, according to the Alliance for Retired Americans. Under the Medicare Part D rules pushed by the Bush administration and passed by Congress in 2003, seniors are on the hook for prescription expenses between the annual amounts of $...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:38am PST
President George Bush has nothing to do with the 49ers and Hunters Point proposed stadium Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein are using their personal clout to bring some $82 million - to do a little clean up that will require minimum $1 Billion at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. No one is their RIGHT MIND shouldl ever dream to build a stadium that is plagued with Radiological Elements. Depleted Uranium was experimented upon at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Nancy Pelosi is vested at Hunters Point and so is Diane Feinstein, the Senior, Senile Senator. $82 milli...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:01am PST
Holiday Radio Programming on Gentrification Ramsey Kanaan interviews Dawn Phillips and Gilda Haas on KPFA's "Against the Grain."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 11:15pm PST
Resisting Demolition in New Orleans: Protesters Pepper Sprayed, Tasered, Arrested 
On Thursday, December 20, the New Orleans City Council was scheduled to vote on whether to demolish public housing in New Orleans. The city’s plan is to destroy more than 4,600 units of low-cost housing. This is happening in a city where homelessness is growing. A city where tens of thousands have not been able to return since Katrina. A city where people are being evicted from FEMA trailers, where homeless encampments are being forcibly removed. And this plan has been met with resistance by ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:57am PST
Striking Nurses Approve New Pact with Appalachian Regional Healthcare Monday, December 24, 2007 : Striking nurses in West Virginia and Kentucky will vote today and tomorrow on a new tentative agreement that could send them back to work soon. Although details of the new contract will remain confidential until after the vote, union leaders have endorsed it. Nearly 700 members of the United American Nurses (UAN) union have been on strike at nine Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) hospitals since Oct....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:37am PST
RN's Statement on Death of Nataline Sarkisyan: 'CIGNA Should Have Listened to Her Doctors And Approved the Transplant Earlier Friday, December 21, 2007 : The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today blasted insurance giant CIGNA for failing to approve a liver transplant one week earlier for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who tragically died last night just hours after CIGNA relented and agreed to the procedure following a massive national outcry....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 8:58am PST
Lives of Fresno’s Homeless Honored 
A memorial service for homeless people who have died in Fresno over the last couple of years was held today....
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 8:33pm PST
Congressperson Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein - responsible for children dying. Congressperson Nancy Pelosi and Senior Senator Diane Feinstein are responsible for the slow deaths of hundreds of innocent children, our beloved Seniors and those with compromised health. The above two scum bags - have with intent cooperated with Lennar BVHP LLC to slowly destroy our community - in the Bayview Hunters Point - in San Francisco. Meanwhile - Mayor Gavin Newsom another jerk of a person - has not lifted one single finger - to help our children and hundreds of others - that have be...
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 6:04pm PST
New Orleans to demolish thousands of 'poor' homes Friday, December 21, 2007 : In the face of violent protests, New Orleans City Council yesterday moved to demolish thousands of low-income houses as the city continues the agonisingly slow process or rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 9:25am PST
Toxic Living in FEMA Trailers? Originally From New America Media
Sunday, December 23, 2007 : HOUSTON (FinalCall.com) - “My personal confidence in the government was never strong to begin with but since Katrina, it has become non-existent,” said James Ferguson, a former resident of New Orleans whose family of four endured a brief stay in a mobile home after displacement by the hurricane....
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 9:19am PST
UN issues Iraqi children aid plea Saturday, December 22, 2007 : Unicef says millions suffer from poor nutrition, education, disease and violence....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:54pm PST
Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population Saturday, December 22, 2007 :Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:44pm PST
New Orleans police attack residents protesting public housing demolition Saturday, December 22, 2007 :On Thursday, New Orleans police attacked demonstrators attempting to gain entrance to a city council meeting scheduled to discuss and vote on the destruction of 4,500 units of public housing. The proposed demolition is part of the effort to utilize the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to bring about permanent demographic change in New Orleans, aimed at preventing the return of poor and primarily black residents....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:44pm PST
Chicago: Man Found Guilty In Beating Death Of Homeless Man WHEATON (STNG) -- A jury found a Chicago man guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the bludgeoning death of a 33-year-old homeless man in 2000....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 10:50am PST
Video: Lights in the darkness / Vigil held for Forrest Clayton Salcido-Missoula It was just below freezing on one of the longest nights of the year, when 100 Missoulians declared their determination to defeat hate.
Rallying around the senseless death of Forrest Clayton Salcido on the eve of National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day, they pledged to find a third way beyond fighting back or fleeing....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 10:38am PST
New Orleans Police Taser, Pepper Spray Residents Seeking to Block Public Housing Demolition Friday, December 21, 2007 :The New Orleans City Council has unanimously voted to move ahead with the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Under the plan the city's four largest public housing developments will be razed and replaced with mixed income housing. Hundreds of people were turned away from the City Council meeting. Police shot protesters were shot with pepper spray and tasers. We go to New Orleans to speak with two local community activists and a former SWAT commander....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:58am PST
Forgotten Crises: The Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 Friday, December 21, 2007 :The group Doctors Without Borders has released its list of the top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007. The list highlights the plight of people in places races ranging from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Chechnya and elsewhere. As we approach the end of 2007 we take a look back at these forgotten crises with Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of Doctors Without Borders-USA....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:58am PST
Kwanzaa Unity Celebration ~ California State Capitol 
In our Califorina State Capitol, Sacramento you can experience the sights, sounds, soul and spirit of Black Culture sharing our Pan-African roots during our "California Grown" holiday. California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists will host a vibrant celebration that honors the best of our current Agriculture participation in California Agribuisiness....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:50am PST
CIGNA CAPITULATES TO PATIENT REVOLT - Following Massive Protest, Insurer Authorizes Transplant for 17-year-old Nataline Sarki Thursday, December 20, 2007 : CNA/NNOC-Sponsored Protest Sparks Flood of Calls from Across U.S.In a stunning turn around, insurance giant CIGNA has capitulated to community demands, and protests that the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee helped to generate, and agreed to a critically needed liver transplant for Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old girl in the intensive care unit at UCLA Medical Center....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:49am PST
Whittier Hospital RNs Choose CNA/NNOC In Landslide 87% Election Victory Thursday, December 20, 2007 : By a landslide 87 percent vote, registered nurses at Whittier Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area Wednesday night elected the nation’s fastest growing union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), to represent them. The final count was 144 to 21 in the secret ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:48am PST
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