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Sri Lankan president marks tsunami anniversary by beating the war drums Wednesday, January 2, 2008 :With more than 21,000 Sri Lankans still wallowing in squalid camps three years after the terrifying tsunami that struck the region on December 26, 2004, President Mahinda Rajapakse has used the anniversary, not to pledge more rapid reconstruction, but to defend his government’s resumption of civil war....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 6:58am PST
Misunderestimating homelessness and the mortgage mess 
Despite the efforts in some quarters to “misunderestimate” the size and scope of mortgage fraud and homelessness in the United States, the extent of the problem is huge. So huge, that one real estate pro in Atlanta says fully 40 percent of the homes in his neighborhood are vacant due to foreclosure. In California, people are paying $500 a month to sleep in garages....
Posted: Tue, Jan 1, 2008 9:12pm PST
Kwanzaa Karamu: 2007 Farm Bill and Black Agribusiness Feast 
A global Kwanzaa Karamu table represents current reality of our “collective faith” in Black Agribusiness. In the past we produced the entire harvest in classical African Civilization, today we are primarily consumers in our harvest celebrations; tomorrow we will become the primary producers of our harvest celebration that restore our people to our traditional greatness. In 2008 we will engage our "Faith Based Community" to invest community resources in Black Agribusiness....
Posted: Tue, Jan 1, 2008 6:36pm PST
Immigrant Children at Greater Risk of Lead Poisoning Originally From New America Media
Sunday, December 30, 2007 : NEW YORK -- A new study conducted by the New York Department of Health revealed that immigrant children, particularly those from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Pakistan are most vulnerable to lead poisoning. The study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health found that children who have lived overseas during their first six months are eleven times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than U....
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 9:15am PST
US mayors' report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities Saturday, December 29, 2007 :The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again in 2007, according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors. The 23-city Hunger and Homelessness Survey was released in late December. Requests for emergency food increased in four of every five cities....
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 12:36pm PST
Alexander Cockburn: Options in America: Kill Yourself or Have a Baby Saturday, December 29, 2007 :Time made Vladimir Putin its Man of the Year. Chalk it up as nostalgia for the cold war, when America was great, and a working man in a state like Michigan had two cars, a nice house, a country cabin, a health plan, a pension and a wife who stayed at home, canning fruit and batting her eyes at the postman....
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 12:35pm PST
Video exposes Boley housing agency's crimes against black community 
Video uncovers Boley's theft of housing resources meant for African community and agency's attack on the Uhuru Movement...
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 10:18am PST
US agency OKs slashing of health benefits for over-65 retirees Friday, December 28, 2007 :Using the slow period between Christmas and New Year’s as cover, the US federal agency charged with enforcing laws against discrimination issued a controversial new ruling that allows employer and union-run health-care plans to reduce costs by slashing or totally eliminating benefits for retirees once they turn 65....
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 7:50am PST
Congress Lifts Washington, DC Syringe Funding Ban Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Contact: Naomi Long (202) 669-6071 or Bill Piper (202) 669-6430
President Bush signed an omnibus spending bill today that includes a provision that lifts a nine-year ban that has prohibited the nation’s capital from spending its own (non-federal) money on syringe exchange programs....
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 7:50am PST
More Than 3 Million Seniors Will Fall Into Medicare Donut Hole in 2008 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 : This will not be a happy New Year for millions of seniors. More seniors than ever are expected to fall into the Medicare Part D donut hole in 2008, the coverage gap that requires seniors to pay the full cost of their prescription drugs, according to the Alliance for Retired Americans. Under the Medicare Part D rules pushed by the Bush administration and passed by Congress in 2003, seniors are on the hook for prescription expenses between the annual amounts of $...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:38am PST
Resisting Demolition in New Orleans: Protesters Pepper Sprayed, Tasered, Arrested 
On Thursday, December 20, the New Orleans City Council was scheduled to vote on whether to demolish public housing in New Orleans. The city’s plan is to destroy more than 4,600 units of low-cost housing. This is happening in a city where homelessness is growing. A city where tens of thousands have not been able to return since Katrina. A city where people are being evicted from FEMA trailers, where homeless encampments are being forcibly removed. And this plan has been met with resistance by ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:57am PST
Striking Nurses Approve New Pact with Appalachian Regional Healthcare Monday, December 24, 2007 : Striking nurses in West Virginia and Kentucky will vote today and tomorrow on a new tentative agreement that could send them back to work soon. Although details of the new contract will remain confidential until after the vote, union leaders have endorsed it. Nearly 700 members of the United American Nurses (UAN) union have been on strike at nine Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) hospitals since Oct....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 11:37am PST
Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population Saturday, December 22, 2007 :Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:44pm PST
New Orleans police attack residents protesting public housing demolition Saturday, December 22, 2007 :On Thursday, New Orleans police attacked demonstrators attempting to gain entrance to a city council meeting scheduled to discuss and vote on the destruction of 4,500 units of public housing. The proposed demolition is part of the effort to utilize the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to bring about permanent demographic change in New Orleans, aimed at preventing the return of poor and primarily black residents....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:44pm PST
New Orleans Police Taser, Pepper Spray Residents Seeking to Block Public Housing Demolition Friday, December 21, 2007 :The New Orleans City Council has unanimously voted to move ahead with the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Under the plan the city's four largest public housing developments will be razed and replaced with mixed income housing. Hundreds of people were turned away from the City Council meeting. Police shot protesters were shot with pepper spray and tasers. We go to New Orleans to speak with two local community activists and a former SWAT commander....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:58am PST
Forgotten Crises: The Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 Friday, December 21, 2007 :The group Doctors Without Borders has released its list of the top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007. The list highlights the plight of people in places races ranging from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Chechnya and elsewhere. As we approach the end of 2007 we take a look back at these forgotten crises with Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of Doctors Without Borders-USA....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:58am PST
CIGNA CAPITULATES TO PATIENT REVOLT - Following Massive Protest, Insurer Authorizes Transplant for 17-year-old Nataline Sarki Thursday, December 20, 2007 : CNA/NNOC-Sponsored Protest Sparks Flood of Calls from Across U.S.In a stunning turn around, insurance giant CIGNA has capitulated to community demands, and protests that the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee helped to generate, and agreed to a critically needed liver transplant for Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old girl in the intensive care unit at UCLA Medical Center....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:49am PST
Whittier Hospital RNs Choose CNA/NNOC In Landslide 87% Election Victory Thursday, December 20, 2007 : By a landslide 87 percent vote, registered nurses at Whittier Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area Wednesday night elected the nation’s fastest growing union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), to represent them. The final count was 144 to 21 in the secret ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:48am PST
Envisioning a Solidarity-Based Response to Disaster (video/quicktime 60.5MB) On December 10, Activist San Diego hosted a discussion about an activist strategy for approaching disaster, reflecting on the racist response to the October wildfires in San Diego County, in which migrant and indigenous workers and families were ignored by government-sponsored aid organizations and targeted by law enforcement.
Participants talked about the successes and frustrations of the impromptu efforts to provide for the migrant communities affected by the fires, the role of the Red C...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 2:07pm PST
Plea for support fron New Orleans 
12/20/07 13:30p.m. -New Orleans Public Housing residents, and affordable housing advocates are being locked out of the New Orleans City Council (public meeting) proceedings and being harassed by multiple 'law enforcement' agencies as they attempt to conduct a peaceful show of support for a halt to the immoral and untimely demolition of the 4 largest housing developments during an unprecedented housing crisis in this city....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 12:53pm PST
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