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FCC approves revised rules for digital kids TV The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously accepted revised rules that limit the amount of commercial material broadcast on digital television intended for children....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 4:16pm PDT
Hey, FDA! Ethnic Americans Eat Spinach, Too In national emergencies like the recent outbreak of E. coli in spinach, it's time for government agencies to remember to call the nation's ethnic media, a primary source of information for millions of Americans. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health editor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 6:31am PDT
Katrina Evacuees in Houston Face Lack of Health Care, Jobs, and FEMA Assistance Over one hundred twenty thousand Katrina evacuees still live in Houston, Texas. A recent study shows ninety-eight percent are African American, three quarters earn less than $15,000 per year, almost half have no health insurance, and less than twenty percent are employed. Many could soon lose assistance from FEMA. Two organizers tell us how the community is responding....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:39am PDT
A national disgrace: sick 9/11 workers left without medical coverage 70 percent with respiratory ailments...
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:20am PDT
New Yorkers Tell Federal Officials To Stop Ignoring 9/11's Health Effects Hundreds of residents gathered last night at New York's St. Paul's Chapel - across the street from the former World Trade Center site -- to demand the federal government stop ignoring the health effects from 9/11. We hear some of their voices....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:20am PDT
Peacetalks: Alan Jenkins, New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina. (audio/mpeg 29.5MB) Interview with Alan Jenkins, Executive Director of the Opportunity Agenda about the report he co-authored on the housing situation in New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 8:13am PDT
(mp3) interview with malik rahim on the first anniversay of the founding of common ground mp3, interview is located here
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=19665...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 8:11am PDT
Worsening food insecurity in Africa A report by the development charity Oxfam, “Causing Hunger: An Overview of the Food Crisis in Africa,” finds that the food crisis in Africa is continuing to worsen. In the 1960s Oxfam provided part of the impetus to set up the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Freedom from Hunger Campaign, aimed at reducing food insecurity. That campaign has failed miserably in Africa....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 6:35am PDT
Aspartame Awareness Weekend This weekend with Aspartame Awareness globally we will be mailing out the Report to Schools on the release, new reports from world experts on what aspartame does to the brains of our children, in our Save the Children project. Everyone should get involved. It can save the lives of thousands....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 11:25am PDT
One year after Katrina 
Just came back to Santa Cruz after being in New Orleans. It's nice to be back, where people's homes are intact and not everything is toxic. My heart is heavy though, thinking about the people of New Orleans who have lost so much and continue to suffer....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 9:52pm PDT
Germany: Health “reforms” at the expense of the working population It is becoming ever clearer that the impending health “reforms” to be introduced by the German government herald a fundamental change in Germany’s welfare state at the expense of ordinary working people....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 9:03am PDT
BTL:FDA Approves OTC Sale of Morning-After Pill Decision excludes women under18 Interview with Ted Miller, communications director for NARAL ProChoice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 4:38am PDT
Katrina Wounds Slow to Heal for South Asian Community A day before Hurricane Katrina hit last year, New Orleans residents Quamrun Zinia, husband Riyad Ferdous and their little kid got into a car. At 11:00 a.m., they set off. They just packed stuff for their kid. Then they drove 400 miles to seek shelter with Zinia's brother who lived in the Houston suburb of Belleville. It was a category five warning, and evacuation was mandatory....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:29am PDT
What Water Can Do -- Remembering My New Orleans Home, Lost for Now A woman born and raised in New Orleans is caught between remembering and willfully forgetting all the storm did to scatter her family and destroy her childhood home. Sarah M. Broom is an assistant editor at "O, The Oprah Magazine." She now lives in Harlem....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:27am PDT
BTL:One Year After Katrina, Reconstruction Efforts in New Orleans... 
...Gulf Coast Neglects Millions~Interview with Chris Kromm, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 4:11am PDT
One year after Katrina disaster: No accountability for US political elite President Bush visited New Orleans Tuesday, the anniversary of the city’s virtual destruction by Hurricane Katrina, and blandly admitted the indifference with which the US ruling elite responded to the greatest natural disaster in American history....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 6:35am PDT
One Year After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing Projects Remain Closed New Orleans activists and residents have condemned the federal government's refusal to re-open the city's public housing projects and point out that while tourist areas are being developed, affordable housing is not being built. Many of those who have been unable to return home are poor and African American. We speak with lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights lawyer, Tracie Washington....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:21am PDT
The Gulf Coast one year later: Indices of a social disaster One year ago today, in the early morning hours, Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf Coast of the US. Upon landfall, the Category 3 hurricane’s storm surge caused massive damage in the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. The region was pummeled by 145 mile-an-hour winds and waves 28 feet high, resulting in widespread flooding....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:18am PDT
Common Ground Collective Continues to Bring Volunteers For Post-Katrina Relief We speak with New Orleans community activist and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, Malik Rahim, about his continued relief efforts in the Gulf Coast, the racism in the federal government's response to the disaster and much more....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:04am PDT
Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation The catastrophe that is unfolding in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi has been transformed into a national humiliation without parallel in the history of the United States....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:18pm PDT
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