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A Call for Donations to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines 
Akbayan Partylist, through its #Akbayanihan Relief Drive, is again calling on the public for donations and volunteers to help the victims of super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)....
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:03am PST
Philippines - ‘Morong 43’ member killed in Bulacan encounter 
Philippines– A member of the Morong 43 was killed in an encounter with government troops in Bulacan early this month, the military revealed Thursday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 10:18pm PST
Protest Underscores Continuing Privatization of Oregon Schools The Oregon Business Association (OBA) held its annual Statesman Dinner on October 17 to honor the Statesman of the Year. The event was fraught with anomalies, not least of which was the fact that the award went to Sue Levin, the Executive Director of Stand for Children Oregon....
Posted: Sun, Nov 3, 2013 8:04pm PST
Chemotherapy Increases Cancer Cell Growth, Kills Healthy Cells New research from Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle shows that chemotherapy damages healthy tissue around tumors and causes cancer cells to become resistant and using damaged DNA of healthy cells to create cancer "super" cells that grow faster than before treatment. The pharmaceutical industry monopolizes the treatment field with toxic chemotherapy while using their FDA puppets to suppress lower cost yet more effective alternative treatments currently only available outside the...
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 12:02pm PDT
Florida City Bullied into Fluoridation Science tells us that fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies are ineffective and harmful to health. Special interest groups keep fluoridation alive with misinformation, appeal to authority and character assassination....
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2013 5:26am PDT
Critique of NPR Ombudsman's Egregious Errors in Attacking Reporting on Native Foster Care 
Rapid City, South Dakota The Lakota People’s Law Project has just issued “Who is Watching the Watch Dog– A Critique of NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos’ Egregious Errors in Attacking Laura Sullivan and Amy Waters’ Reporting on Native Foster Care”. The report alleges that the former founding editor of Wall Street Journal Americas and now NPR Ombudsman’s 80 page report written over 22 months made six very serious errors which invalidate his findings. The data justify the original airing o...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 12:57pm PDT
NLG Files Petition Against U.S. For Human Rights Violations in Vieques San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and four legal and human rights groups filed a petition on September 23 before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the United States for severe human rights violations in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. For over 60 years, the United States Navy bombed and used biological and chemical warfare on Vieques as part of its military practices, causing decades of continuous contamination of the land, s...
Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 6:34pm PDT
After Intense Pressure, Feds Ban 97 Percent of Arsenic Products in Animal Feed 
After intense public pressure, the Food and Drug Administration has announced (see PDF) it is withdrawing approval of 97 percent of the arsenic compounds used in animal feed. The FDA decision comes in response to a 2009 scientific petition and a lawsuit filed earlier this year by a coalition of food-safety, agriculture, public-health and environmental groups. Arsenic in animal feed ends up in chicken and other meats, posing a danger to people and contaminating the environment and water suppli...
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 8:26pm PDT
Community Defenders Celebrate 4th Anniversary Blockade of Proposed Hydroelectric Project 
The blockade is simple, but its implications profound. A thick steel chain across the only bridge entering the small town of Paso de la Reina, municipality of Santiago Jamiltepec of roughly 500 residents on Oaxaca’s southwestern coast, is attended daily by men and women who prevent the entry of anyone connected with a proposed hydroelectric dam project on the Rio Verde. And for four years that strategy has been successful....
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2013 12:53pm PDT
Pearl August Humanitarian Awards Announced 
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS, NATIONAL GREEN SCHOOLS LEADER, CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT...
Posted: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:40pm PDT
For Transgender Rights, Putting the T in LGBT 
[Photo: GetEQUAL organized protest on in Washington, D.C., 2010. Photo credit: by Alex Wong/Getty Images]...
Posted: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 10:12am PDT
Under Attack, Mexico’s Teachers Fight Back Against Neoliberal ‘Reforms’ 
Peña Nieto, with the collaboration of the media, the corporate class and the main political parties, may have been able to move his educational reform package through the legislative process with relative ease. Yet, when it comes to implementation, that is another matter....
Posted: Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:38am PDT
Dr. Hanan Islam from AMHEC from Compton interview on Settingthestandard (audio/x-wav 266.1MB) Dr. Hanan Islam from AMHEC from Compton interview on Settingthestandard kpfa 94.1 fm...
Posted: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 4:08pm PDT
Un maestro de Oaxaca habla de la lucha del magisterio 
El pasado 19 de abril llegaron decenas de miles de profesores disidentes de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) al Distrito Federal desde Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Chiapas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz y Tabasco....
Posted: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 12:57pm PDT
Oaxaca schoolteacher talks about union struggle Last April 19, tens of thousands dissident teachers of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) arrived in Mexico City from Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Chiapas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz and Tabasco....
Posted: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 12:51pm PDT
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