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Around the world people are witnessing a great horror unfolding in northern Pakistan and India. Just 10 months after a tsunami devastated South Asia and two months after Hurricane Katrina swept across the southern states of the US, more than 70,000 people have been killed by a massive earthquake in Kashmir and neighbouring areas....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 6:24am PDT
Call 1-800-828-0498 and urge your senators to reject any budget reconciliation that includes cuts to Medicaid....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:00am PDT
Please read this brief announcement and see if there is any way you can offer assistance at this watershed moment in American history. I am in regular communication with Kerul Dyer, an incredible community organizer and visionary activist who is working tirelessly with the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans to offer basic aid to the devastated communities of the Deep South. The stories she has to tell about what is happening on the ground there right now are almost beyond belief....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 6:10pm PDT
We spend the hour with Mike Davis author of the new book, "The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu." Davis says, "2005 is the year in which avian flu, now has acquired a critical mass amongst birds that it won't be eradicated and it's unclear whether it can be contained. Most likely, avian flu will fly to every corner of the world. It will probably reach Alaska and Northern Canada, for instance, in the near future. Avian flu - the threat of pandemic avian flu - ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:11am PDT
We play an address by professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson speaking at the first annual Unvarnished Truth Awards in Washington D.C. Dyson says, "If you're in the plane, being in first class ain't going to stop you from going down with the rest of us. When there is turbulence, there is turbulence everywhere. Everybody be shaking. If that plane goes down, you might die first in first class. Yes, some of us are in first class, but the plane is in trouble."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 7:13am PDT
Using the cost of Hurricane Katrina reconstruction as a pretext, Congressional Republicans, backed by the Bush administration, continue to push for sharp cuts in social programs....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 10:52pm PDT
Still, roofs are off, houses are molding away from the inside, and the
streets are piled with garbage that, six weeks after the hurricane, has not
been picked up....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 12:57pm PDT
Racism is like the black mold eating away at the long-submerged houses....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
October 11, 2005 -- Tariq Ali in Lahore...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:03am PDT
They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left behind. The poor, the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:55am PDT
Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
While larger relief organizations are mismanaging resources, poorly delegating authority, and exacerbating racial tensions in the Andaman region of Thailand, small relief organizations are using small resources to leverage change and local Thai leadership is emerging....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 4:57pm PDT
A major earthquake on Saturday morning measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has devastated cities, towns and villages across northern Pakistan. The official death toll in Pakistan reached 19,369 yesterday with over 42,000 people injured, but casualties are expected to climb further as rescue workers reach outlying areas. Hundreds more were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The worst affected in both countries were the poor who lived in cheap housing built of mud brick and wood....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:31am PDT
Dear folks-
Hurricane Stan has completely devastated southern mexico and Central America. The gross similarities between Stan and Katrina are obvious: poor people experiencing the tragic effects and government incompetence only endangering the people more.
I have many friends missing and in danger there. To my people out there: You're in my thoughts and prayers! I couldn't find much information in English, so I investigated the Mexican daily La Jornada to get the low down. I wrote this ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to help?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 2:44pm PDT
CALL FOR URGENT RELIEF ACTION
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 11:12am PDT
The Bush administration made clear this week that it will not revoke or delay a law that will make it harder for tens of thousands of working-class Americans to file for bankruptcy. With the support of the White House, Republican congressmen rejected calls from consumer groups and some Democrats to place a moratorium on the bill’s provisions for victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 10:19am PDT
Put people before cronies...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:01am PDT
“Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 8:24am PDT
One week after Hurricane Rita blew through East Texas, many residents of Walker, Montgomery, San Jacinto and surrounding counties were still without electricity. Those who did have electricity still experienced rolling black outs for four or more hours daily in the extreme heat of the Indian Summer. They were the lucky ones. Those without any electricity quickly began to realize just how dependent they were upon it. They couldn’t take a hot shower. They couldn’t watch TV or read after sunset....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:36pm PDT