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Why Was Juan Gonzalez Left Out of NY Daily News Pulitzer for 9/11 Health Effects? The New York Daily News has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial series on the medical fall-out from the 9/11 attacks. But in some circles, the Pulitzer award was as noteworthy for whom it did not mention: Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the first reporter to question government officials' insistence that the air around Ground Zero was safe and wrote a series of groundbreaking exposes on the issue....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 8:00am PDT
ASA Co-Sponsors Largest HIV/AIDS Lobby Day This month, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) will co-sponsor the largest annual
HIV/AIDS constituent-based federal advocacy and education event in the US...
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 11:00pm PDT
US: FDA knew of food contamination for years For years, the federal Food and Drug Administration knew about contamination problems on California spinach farms and at a Georgia peanut butter processor that sickened at least 600 people and caused at least three deaths, according to agency documents and interviews obtained by the Washington Post....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Camp Quixote Solidarity! The Movement To End Racism, Classism and Sexism! 
Just like the homeless crisis in California, and just like Resurrection City, there is another incredible movement in the USA that isn't getting enough publicity. That movement is called Camp Quixote, a tent city that includes several members who survived Hurrican Katrina! #4 of "the Open Source Classism, Racism, and Sexism Project" zine has just come out and is structured in an opensource mode so that people can circulate it and help their own movement as well!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:08pm PDT
AIDS Activists Call for Global Boycott of Abbott for Withholding Drug Sales in Thailand AIDS activists from around the globe are converging in Illinois on Friday to protest outside the annual shareholders meeting of the pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories. Abbott manufactures several leading AIDS drugs but has been embroiled in controversy over its actions in Thailand where it moved to withhold medicines from the country over a commercial dispute....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:46am PDT
Crushing Small Farms at Home, Destroying Third World Farmers Abroad US Agricultural Policy is Destructive...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:39am PDT
Regional powers provide a pittance in aid to tsunami victims in Solomon Islands The response of the Australian and New Zealand governments to the humanitarian crisis in Solomon Islands underlines their callous indifference toward the people of the Pacific island states. A massive earthquake triggered a tsunami on April 2, devastating much of the Western and Choiseul provinces and causing a series of landslides on Ranonga Island. Thousands of people have been displaced, leaving them vulnerable to disease and food shortages....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:02pm PDT
Our Broken Mental Health System Leaving aside the issue of WMM (Weapons of Mass Murder, aka guns), the massacre at Virginia Tech has something to teach us about the American mental health system. It's farcically easy for an American to be diagnosed as mentally ill: All you have to do is squirm in your fourth grade seat and you're likely to be hit with the label of A.D.D. and a prescription for Ritalin. But when a genuine whack-job comes along--the kind of guy who calls himself "Question Mark" and turns in essays on bloodbat...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 7:47pm PDT
Mexico City lawmakers pass abortion bill The article discusses how Mexico City finally passed a law to legalize abortion. Even though the law has passed, women can still be imprisoned for getting an abortion late too late in pregancy....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 1:43am PDT
Volunteer work is food for 90-year-old's soul Article about a 90 year old woman, Novelean Harris , is still volunteering at her church. Her work over the years has made a great different in her community....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:08pm PDT
Response to SF Chronicle This is a response to the SF Chronicle's criticism of Pro-Choice advocates using scientific/confusing terminology to further their cause....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:56pm PDT
Prozac Madness: A Killer Cocktail The lard-assed cops at Virginia Tech spent two hours interrogating the wrong suspect and failed to prevent the massacre. Now they're "investigating." What is there to investigate - which brand or brands of anti-depressant Seung Hui Cho was taking?...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:00am PDT
The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:28am PDT
Labour plans to gut National Health Service in Wales A statue of Aneurin Bevan in his characteristic oratorical posture stands in the centre of Cardiff commemorating the local left-wing MP who, as Minister of Health in the 1945 Labour government, founded the National Health Service....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:22am PDT
200 000 médicos y más! 
El Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez y el vicepresidente cubano Carlos Lage ratifican el Compromiso de Sandino. Se graduarán 200 000 médicos latinoamericanos en la década actual......
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:31am PDT
Climate Change and Affordable Housing: Time to Make a Strong Connection There’s no question the issue of climate change has reached a tipping point in America. Once relegated to technical journals and PBS documentaries, the national news media now splashes climate change issues across front pages and news broadcasts daily. States and cities throughout the country have begun their own initiatives to combat the problem, and the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate look poised to push the dialogue even further. One strategy in particular - increasing density i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:13am PDT
Breast Cancer Action E-Alert for California 1. TAKE ACTION: Educate and Advocate for Universal Health Care; Attend the Environmental Health Legislative Education Days; Support Breast Cancer Research in California
2. SAVE THE DATE: BCA Talks on the Politics of Cancer in Poplar and Monterey...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Yellowstone Park? No, Farragut Square park "The crime is camping, and here apparently it is a crime to lay on a bench because protecting a statue of David Farragut from everything except the pigeon shit is more important to our national heritage than are the poorest residents of our city who have no rooves over their heads."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 8:40am PDT
Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement 27 year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. Daniels is suffering from a deadly strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Doctors say he is virtually untreatable. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:17am PDT
BCA E-Alert April 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:18pm PDT
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