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The Queens blackout: the brutal human costs of Con Ed’s drive for profit More than a week after Con Edison’s aging infrastructure buckled under the impact of a heat wave, plunging residents of a large swathe of New York City’s borough of Queens into darkness and sweltering heat, at least 10,000 people remained without electric power Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 10:24pm PDT
Doctor and nurses arrested in Katrina-related deaths On orders from Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti Jr., police arrested a doctor and two nurses Tuesday in connection with the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 8:22am PDT
Tell Congress to Oppose Shutdown Bills Stop Congress from approving the creation of an unelected "Sunset Commission" which could undo our nation's vital human needs and social service programs!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 10:48pm PDT
DESPERATELY NEEDED: MEDIA ACTIVISTS TO SUPPORT KATRINA SURVIVORS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING A great opportunity to help in the lower ninth ward with media organizing....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 10:26am PDT
Canadian government indifferent to Israel’s murder of eight of its citizens Canada’s Conservative government has responded to the murder of eight Canadian citizens in an Israeli air strike with a shrug of its shoulders....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:29pm PDT
Population given no warnings as tsunami hits Java, killing hundreds The southern coast of the Indonesian island of Java was hit by a two-metre high tsunami at about 4:15 pm local time last Monday. Despite receiving timely international warnings, Indonesian government ministries and agencies issued no warnings to the threatened areas....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:27pm PDT
WHO: Lebanese Residents Displaced by Israeli Bombardment Expected to Top 900,000 Israel continues to target Lebanon's infrastructure and bomb civilian neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization expects the number of Lebanese residents displaced by the assault to reach 900,000 by the end of today. We go to Beirut to get a report from Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 8:00am PDT
Race, Class and the Battle for South Central Farm When the Los Angeles City Council sold the 14 acre plot called the South Central Farm to developer Ralph Horowitz, they sold land they didn't own....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:47am PDT
8/24-29: Katrina Survivors to Return to New Orleans On August 29, 2006, the anniversary of the Katrina Disaster,
Survivors will make their demands to return home heard
by the city council of New Orleans and camp
out on city hall...
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 2:40pm PDT
India Could Learn From California Court's HIV Decision he California Supreme Court has ruled that people who don't reveal their sexual history to their partners can be liable for sexually transmitted diseases. India, which has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world, should take note. Viji Sundaram is the health editor for New America Media....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:25am PDT
FEDS PAVE WAY TO PRIVATIZE OUR HIGHWAYS... The question is how do you destroy the national sovereignty of the United States, merge it with the rest of the western hemisphere, build the infrastructure system needed to link up the entire landmass, confiscate private property on a wholesale level, spy on everyone's comings and goings, and trick American suckers into paying for their own demise all in one fell swoop ? The answer: TOLL EVERYTHING!
"public-private partnerships."
tolls collected will be automatic, requiring universally...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:19am PDT
Ten months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was under-insured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my friend, a grandmother, has not yet decided if she is going to rebuild....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:32am PDT
The modern day ‘never ending story’: post-Katrina long-term recovery FEMA’s decision to discontinue rental assistance to Katrina survivors last month led to a scramble to locate sufficient resources in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, these efforts have resulted in a dead end search....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:19am PDT
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Media Alert This post includes a couple things. A link (again) to a blog maintained by a fellow caravanista, a link to the SC cuba caravan groups myspace and a media alert from the Intereligious Foundation for Community Organizing, the parent organization of Pastors for Peace....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Kansas and the face of AIDS Fundamentalist Christians like Fred Phelps immediately called it God’s retribution for the sins of San Francisco. But since June 5, 1981, after several seemingly innocuous cases led researchers to a disease that ravaged the immune systems of homosexual men, AIDS has taken the lives of 25 million people worldwide, leaving another 40 million folks infected. These days, explains Cameron Siemers, 24, who has been living with AIDS his whole life, it’s clear that “AIDS is not prejudiced. It will at...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 6:33am PDT
New Orleans Public Housing to be Destroyed; 200,000+ Low-Income Residents Remain Displaced Federal housing officials announced last week that more than 5,000 public housing units for the poor were to be demolished even though tens of thousands of low-income residents remain displaced. We speak with New Orleans law professor Bill Quigley....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 7:12am PDT
HUD to New Orleans' Poor: "Go F(ind) Yourself (Housing)!" The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced they plan to demolish over five thousand public housing apartments in New Orleans. In August 2005, HUD reported they had 7,381 public apartments in New Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 6:37am PDT
Mass. Community moves against roots of violence NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — This small seaside town of about 100,000 inhabitants was recently rocked by the murder of Bernadette “Bunny” De Pina, mother of one of the main suspects in an alleged gang slaying. The tragic events have drawn national attention and have been the main headlines in the local press....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 10:34pm PDT
Rainbow/PUSH advances fight for working families ROSEMONT, Ill. — Hundreds of union supporters, members and leaders gathered here at the O’Hare Hyatt Hotel, June 12, under the banner “Labor Day — The Right To Organize,” during the 35th Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund Annual Conference....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 10:21pm PDT
In New Orleans, Black and Brown Rebuild Lives Together A young writer travels to New Orleans and finds unity and respect among Latinos and African Americans. Adrian Avila, 21, is a writer with Silicon Valley Debug (www.siliconvalleydebug.com), a project of New America Media. He traveled to New Orleans in May....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:12am PDT
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