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Food Not Bombs National Gathering reportback The 2008 Food Not Bombs National Gathering was held from March 28 through 30th in Nashville, TN, attracting participants from as far as Worcester, MA and Santa Barbara, CA. While no official count was taken, there were at the very least 50 people who traveled to attend the gathering....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 4:57pm PDT
Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger Saturday, April 5, 2008 :Thousands of Haitians took to the streets Thursday to protest against soaring food prices and growing hunger in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. In Les Cayes, Haiti’s third-largest city, over 5,000 people demonstrated, chanting slogans denouncing President Rene Preval and shouting “Down with the high cost of living!” According to local reports from the southern peninsula city, the protesters stormed and attempted to burn the local offices of the UN Mission fo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:24am PDT
US Senate leaders agree on pro-industry housing bill Saturday, April 5, 2008 :The US Senate is debating a housing bill agreed to by the Democratic and Republican party leaderships that includes tens of billions in tax breaks for corporations, with paltry tokens for distressed homeowners. On Wednesday, Democrat Christopher Dodd and Republican Richard Shelby, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, announced the agreement....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:23am PDT
Resist the NAFTA Superhighway! Call to Action For Longtermers Its been a three weeks since clearing officially began for the NAFTA
Superhighway, I-69. Trees have been felled in the first two miles (out of 142) of the route, and three out of the four homes (out of 400) which had already been seized by the Department of Transportation were demolished this week. Security is posted around the clearing sites, reflecting the state's fear of the wrath of local communities threatened by the road....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 11:23am PDT
la paz de los pocos... La paz en la que existen ustedes es una virtualidad. Ustedes piensan que tienen paz, tranquilidad, y comodidad. Pero esa paz es una mentira, por que la paz no puede existir sin dignidad, justicia, y libertad para todo@s en todo el mundo. Es mas, por mas que ustedes crean en esta paz falsa, justifican, valifican, y legitimizan su medio: el terror. Su paz es nuestro terror. Un mochachino latte organico y de comercio justo no es, y nunca sera suficiente para una paz verdadera; ni un carro eficie...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:08am PDT
Listen Up Northwest (audio/mpeg 26.8MB) Listen Up Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:41am PDT
After Adverse Publicity, Wal-Mart Drops $400,000 Health Care Claim Against Former Employee Disabled in Traffic Accident Wednesday, April 2, 2008 :After tremendous adverse publicity, retail giant Wal-Mart has announced it is dropping its effort to collect over $400,000 dollars in health care reimbursement from Debbie Shank, a former employee. Debbie lost much of her memory and ability to communicate or walk in a car crash in May 2000. Her family successfully sued the trucking company involved and after attorneys' fees and expenses, the $417,000 dollars from the settlement was put in a trust for Debbie's care. T...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:38am PDT
Record Number of Food Stamp Recipients Projected Wednesday, April 2, 2008 :Government officials are projecting the number of Americans receiving food stamps will reach a record 28 million later this year. Over the past year, more than forty states saw the number of food stamp recipients rise. A ten percent jump in food stamp recipients was recorded in six states: Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota and Rhode Island. In West Virginia, one in six residents now receive food stamps. We speak with Jim Weill, president of the Food Re...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:37am PDT
US food stamp use projected to swell to record levels Wednesday, April 2, 2008 :In yet another indication of worsening social conditions in the United States, a new government report anticipates one and a half million new applicants to the federal Food Stamp Program serving working class households over the coming year. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that by October, 28 million people will depend upon federal food assistance, up from 26.5 million in 2007....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:37am PDT
Bush housing secretary resigns amid mounting corruption charges Tuesday, April 1, 2008 :US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation from the Bush cabinet Monday, after weeks of public allegations of favoritism in the awarding of government contracts and punitive treatment of a local housing authority which had refused to make a business deal with a Jackson crony....
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 10:52am PDT
Medi-Care & Medi-CAL Health Insurance Programs & Prescription Drug Coverage YOUR MEDI-CAL Health Plan - DO YOU KNOW:
• HOW TO CHANGE DOCTORS?
• WHAT TO DO IF YOU MOVE?
• WHY YOU NEED MORE THAN ONE HEALTH CARD?
• HAVE YOU BEEN DENIED OR CUT OFF FROM SERVICES?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 10:37am PDT
Breaking Story: Corrupt HUD Secretary To Resign HUD Secretary Jackson Announces His Resignation!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 7:36am PDT
Don’t Believe Wall Street Hype About Social Security Friday, March 28, 2008 : Earlier this week, the Social Security Board of Trustees released the 65th annual report on the program?s financial status. And on cue, the Bush administration and the Wall Street-knows-best crowd?now joined by Sen. John McCain (who acknowledges " economics is something I've never really understood as well as I should")?used the occasion to push for privatizing Social Security....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 2:03pm PDT
The Present Rice Crisis in The Philippines The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA, a Filipino farmers, environmental and human rights advocacy group based in Los Angeles expressed dismay over the US-Arroyo regime’s way of solving the present rice crisis in the former rice producing nation of the Philippines. The Philippine government is going to buy two million metric tons of rice abroad at a cost of $600 or P24,600 per metric ton, that will be P49.2 billion, which is 146 times than the Philippines annual post-harvest bu...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 10:20pm PDT
Struggle for Health Care Making Us Sick Thursday, March 27, 2008 : There was a time in the not too distant past when the nation's health care system seemed to work pretty well for a lot of people. That was before, says Caroline, a 61-year-old from California, the private insurance companies became the heart?though certainly not the soul?of health care in America. Every time I see an insurance high rise building, I become a little livid knowing that they own those buildings with the blood and deaths of the rest of us....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:57am PDT
"From the Frontlines of Humanity": Former UN Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland on World Crises -- Congo, Darfur, Iraq, Colombia Friday, March 28, 2008 :As former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland spent years working with the world's neediest and in conflict zones including Darfur, Colombia, Gaza, Lebanon, Uganda, the Congo and Iraq. Egeland joins us to talk about his time dealing with world crises, which he documents in a new memoir, "A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:45am PDT
Labor backs call by medical students for universal health care HOUSTON — About 1,000 medical students and their supporters rallied here at city hall March 14 to demand healthcare for all. The event was organized by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) as part of its annual convention and supported by the local SEIU and Justice for Janitors movement. The crowd was made up of medical students from around the country and labor union members....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:41am PDT
Anita Sinha / Jill Tauber: Dreams Turned into Rubble in New Orleans Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson made this statement almost one year ago, during an online forum called "Ask the White House." Secretary Jackson is right, but his actions do not support his words. When Hurricane Katrina struck, over 5,100 families lived in public housing in New Orleans....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:26am PDT
Homeowners Plan Demonstration at NYC Offices of Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase to Protest Government Bailout Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :Hundreds of homeowners are planning a demonstration today Manhattan in front of the corporate offices of Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase to protest the "taxpayer bailout...and refusal of the government and Federal Reserve to provide real solutions for the millions of homeowners at risk of foreclosure." We speak with Bruce Marks, the founder of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America that is organizing the demonstration....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 7:21am PDT
Nicole Colson: Can You Afford to Feed Your Family? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 :"These are tough times. The economy shed more than 80,000 jobs in two months. Prices are up at the gas pump and in the supermarket. Housing values are down. Hard-working Americans are concerned." It might not seem obvious, but these words from George W. Bush in a recent speech at the Economic Club of New York were meant to reassure the public and investors that the U.S....
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 6:29pm PDT
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