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A recent study published in the medical journal Pediatrics sheds new light on the tragic fate that confronts the impoverished and troubled youth who are caught up in the juvenile justice system in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. After 10 years of research into the conditions of youth in Cook County’s juvenile justice system, Dr. Linda Teplin of Northwestern University found that they are four times more likely to suffer an early violent death than their peers in the general population....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:18am PST
A report issued by the inspector general of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) reveals that its former chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, violated federal laws in his efforts to refashion public radio and television as propaganda organs for the Republican right and the Bush administration. The report suggests that the entire CPB board was to one degree or another complicit in Tomlinson’s actions....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:17am PST
With a substantial majority of the population supporting a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the Bush administration and its Democratic allies have joined forces in an attempt to intimidate the American people into accepting a protracted and bloody colonial war....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:15am PST
November 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter
Published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:44am PST
The United States is scheduled this week to witness its 1,000th execution since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, but even as it reaches this milestone opponents said capital punishment may be falling out of favor....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 5:24pm PST
How do we remember Rosa Parks?
By making The 50th Anniversary Of Rosa Parks' Arrest, December 1, a Nationwide Day of Absence and Protest Against Poverty, Racism & War....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 12:04pm PST
That characterization isn't original, but I'm surprised this story hasn't had wider coverage. Deborah Davis was riding the bus to work when, as part of its regular route, it stopped in Denver's federal government office park. A security guard boarded and asked to see everyone's ID. The same thing had happened the day before, and the Arvada mother of four (grandmother of five), taken by surprise, complied....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:09am PST
In a resounding gesture of humanitarian internationalism, CITGO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, began shipping 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil for 45,000 low-income families’ and local social service organizations in Massachusetts the week of Nov. 27....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:53am PST
More than 50,000 people are still living in hotel rooms three months since the devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina displaced as many as one million people. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is currently funding hotel stays for the evacuees who have not been able to find housing. After the next round of deadlines, FEMA will no longer pay the hotel bills....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:32am PST
Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19
Locally coordinated demonstrations across the
U.S. and around the world.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Youth and Student Day of Resistance to Imperialism...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 9:25pm PST
On December 6,
the Supreme Court will hear FAIR v Rumsfeld, the case that
will decide whether the government can constitutionally cut
off federal funding from schools, which decide that recruiters
violate their unequal employer policies....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 9:22pm PST
Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 4:01pm PST
I want to stress that i am not a left wing person. I am a Conservative Republican.
So one cannot dismiss this as anti gop propoganda. Is aw the horrible job fema/red cross has done and how homeless, travelers, transients are basically being told to die by the Red Cross and FEMA...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 3:06pm PST
FORMER BLACK PANTHER POLITICAL PRISONER
LARRY PINKNEY TELLS IT LIKE IT IS...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 1:46pm PST
Two Denver residents filed a federal lawsuit last week after being forcibly removed in March 2005 from an event with President Bush for their perceived political views. We speak with Alex Young and Leslie Weise about the details of the case....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 1:01pm PST
DawnWatch: New York Times on media coverage of Katrina animal disaster 11/28/05...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 10:34am PST
DawnWatch: Parakeet extermination in NY Times plus positive parakeet article in Chicago Tribune 11/28/05...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 10:31am PST
‘We are calling on all Catholics of goodwill to speak to their priests and express their deep concern at this decision,’ said Harry Knox, director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 11:05pm PST
This Wednesday, November 30 the Supreme Court will hear Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood -- a case that could eliminate the requirement that abortion restrictions must include protections for women's health....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 11:01pm PST
The fallout from labor’s refusal to oppose Prop. 73 (the “parental notification” initiative on CA’s recent “special election” ballot) will have an impact nationally and globally because it represents a prime example of labor’s refusal to “walk the walk”—not just “talk the talk”—on gender equity issues. Although women—especially the predominantly female CA Nurses Association—are credited for being the initial and sustaining force behind defeating Schwarzenegger’s anti-worker ballot initiatives...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 8:55am PST