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Kucinich assails privatized Medicare "rackets" Friday, November 2, 2007 : CLEVELAND — Blasting the insurance and drug company “rackets” that are draining Medicare, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) urged seniors here to get active in the fight to preserve and expand the besieged federal health care system. At a town hall meeting at the Parma Senior Center, Oct. 19, the presidential candidate told 250 retirees that the so-called Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) pushed through in the dead of night by the Republican-controlled Congress in 2003 ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 8:52am PDT
Fire and I.C.E. Hit San Diego (A Mensajero del Pueblo Brief) First came Hurricane Katrina, bringing a deluge of water and displaying for the world the double standard as to what is considered a human being in the United States. One in which Whites were not seen as looters, but as courageous souls trying to survive and feed their families, while the African community was portrayed as criminals looting and pillaging during a national disaster.
Over the last few days, fire ravaged the rural hills and lush vegetation of San Diego County, and again, w...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 9:13pm PDT
New Fire Relief Donation Sites Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
As thousands of San Diegans begin filing insurance claims, requesting FEMA aid, and starting the process of cleaning and rebuilding their homes, thousands more are still without food, water, or shelter at this time. These are the forgotten and invisible victims of San Diego County’s firestorm—our sisters and brothers in the fields, farms, canyons, trailer parks, streets, and reservations throughout the most isolated regions of our county—many of whom were trapped f...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 7:48pm PDT
Internet-based maps transform how communities share food resources. 
Internet-based maps transform how communities share food resources. A new website provides open source map technology....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 3:38pm PDT
A Town Beseiged: Potrero Residents Battling Blackwater Now Suffer Ravages of Wildfire 
Potrero, California, the town that has gained national attention for standing up against Blackwater Worldwide's plan to build a private military-style training camp in their pristine backcountry community east of San Diego, now faces an even more formidable force. The Harris wildfire which began outside Potrero early Sunday morning has ravaged the small rural community, where many residents remain trapped without supplies four days after the fire began....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 1:41pm PDT
Firefighting shortages played role in California wild fire damage Monday, October 29, 2007 :As of Sunday, the Santiago Fire in Orange County, having burned more than 11,000 acres, was still raging to the north of the city of Irvine and east of the city of Orange. It is threatening to jump into Riverside County’s Cleveland National Forest. The working class city of Colton is in its path....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 7:47am PDT
NOON SUNDAY--Press Conference re: Forgotten Fire Victims Noon, Sunday, Oct. 28, Downtown Federal Building--Join us for a press conference in support of migrants, farm workers, and the people on our streets and reservations--the forgotten and invisible victims of San Diego's firestorm....
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 11:46pm PDT
Australia: The real face of Howard's Northern Territory intervention: welfare cuts and community closures Saturday, October 27, 2007 :In June, the Howard government announced a “national emergency” plan to take control of more than 70 Aboriginal communities throughout the Northern Territory (NT). Police and military forces were sent in, purportedly to protect Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. So great was the alleged urgency that the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act was suspended to allow for the racially-targeted intervention....
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 9:45am PDT
Local Concern: HUD Secretary Faces New Investigations The Latest Investigations Into HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson Will Affect Local Housing Policies, As Well As National Housing Policies, If Convicted Of Wrong Doing!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 2:53am PDT
Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm to Protect Immigrant Rights Bilingual Volunteers Needed at Qualcomm... to Protect Immigrant Rights, ensure immigrants access services and translate!
Bilingual volunteers are needed to inform immigrant evacuees of their rights and aid them accessing emergency relief services.
The purpose of this effort is to ensure the immigrant community of San Diego are able to safely access social services without fear.
Please sign up for a four hour shift (at least 3 volunteers per shift). Spanish, Vietnamese Tagalog, Vietna...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 4:12pm PDT
Inhumane Treatment of Evacuees by San Diego City Officials This is an email that I received today from the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium. It goes in to great detail about how the City of San Diego has been treating evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium.
BORDER PATROL PRESENCE AT QUALCOMM:
City officials in charge of the evacuation site at Qualcomm invited a Border Patrol information unit to drive in a van and set up a tent next to FEMA and Red Cross inside the stadium. Although the unit is present to provide map information for burn areas, the p...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 3:59pm PDT
immigrants neglected and abused during San Diego wildfires It is important that people know that the government’s response to this has not been as benevolent as the news media has made it out to be. For immigrant families, this is in no way an ‘anti-Katrina.’ Immigrants in San Diego county are being neglected by emergency evacuators, put in danger by their employers, treated rudely by authorities and volunteers, refused aid at evacuation sites, and racially profiled by police and deported by the Border Patrol....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Deja Vu: Bush Promises Veto After House Passes New Child Health Care Bill Friday, October 26, 2007 : The U.S. House today voted again to provide health care coverage for 10 million children whose families can't afford it. Today's vote (265-142) on a revised bill to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) won overwhelming bipartisan support, but not enough to overcome another veto by President Bush....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:56am PDT
Forgotten Fire Victims Need Help! Relief efforts continue for farm workers, day laborers, service employees, and impoverished families directly impacted by the San Diego County firestorm. Supplies, cash, and volunteers still greatly needed!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:29pm PDT
Southern California is Not New Orleans It is impossible not to notice the difference between the federal government and Bush administrations response to the Southern California wildfires and their response to Katrina. They would have us believe that the explanation is simple; they have learned from their mistakes. But we know better don't we?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:42am PDT
The California wildfires and the American social crisis Thursday, October 25, 2007 :Once again, the world watches as a natural disaster in the United States threatens to become a social catastrophe. Once again, a million Americans are forced from their homes by a long-forecast calamity, with little planning or preparation by the local, state and federal governments. Once again, tens of thousands of refugees seek shelter at a football stadium in a major American city—this time, San Diego....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 7:43am PDT
Feature: Border Patrol Demands Documents, Takes Family Members into Custody at Qualcomm 
In the midst of a massive wildfire-induced crisis displacing perhaps 20% of san diego county's residents, i.c.e. officers were observed asking for papers and separating families at the qualcomm stadium evacuation center earlier today. Border patrol officers were also present at qualcomm yesterday....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:09pm PDT
1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate 
"If it's this big and blowing with as much wind as it's got, it'll go all the way to the ocean before it stops ... We can save some stuff but we can't stop it," said captain of the San Diego fire department, Kirk Humphries....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 3:25pm PDT
Malibu fires show class divide as rich evacuees get massages, yoga (audio/mpeg 3.1MB) Audio: 3 min 23 seconds. The treatment of fire evacuees from places like Malibu, CA stands in sharp contrast to what happened after Katrina!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Border Militarization, Humanitarian Crisis Continue For the fifth straight year the number of bodies recovered from the Arizona desert surpassed two hundred. While 237 bodies of unauthorized border crossers were recovered in 2007, the number who actually died was likely much higher, their bodies to lie in wake among the thousands of square miles of desert along the migrant trail. The Arizona body count is tracked by fiscal yea...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 8:21pm PDT
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