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URGENT: Tell Congress to Protect Food Safety Laws! you are what you eat...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 3:11pm PST
Six Months After Katrina, New Report Shows Poor Still Being Left Behind On the six month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we get a report from Oxfam America on the recovery of the Gulf States. Oxfam director says, “Despite critical reports and investigative hearings of government failures, despite the flurry of commitments to confront poverty in the U.S. - six months after Katrina, little has changed.”...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 8:07am PST
Report-back and thoughts from New Orleans, Jan 30, 2005 Report-back and thoughts from New Orleans, Jan 30, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 11:00pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
BTL:In Response to Darfur Genocide, Campus Divestment Campaign Targets Sudan Interview with Nick Robinson, a Yale law student and director of Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:56am PST
How the Feds make bad food cheaper than good food, Grist, 20060222 CORN SYRUP is deadly and subsidized...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:17pm PST
Four Directions Urgently Seeks Long Term Organizers FOUR DIRECTIONS SOLIDARITY NETWORK
For Immediate Release: 21 February 2006
Contact: Naomi Archer at 828.230.1404
Website: www.eswn.org...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 3:39pm PST
March 14-19, Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans Walkin' to New Orleans
Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans
March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:14pm PST
Cynthia McKinney Blasts Government For Creating “New Underclass of Katrina Homeless" The House select committee examining the federal response to Hurricane Katrina recently released a 600-page report criticizing all levels of government for the disaster. Democrats had refused to be involved in the committee officially, but a few participated informally and released their own supplementary reports. We speak with Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney, one of the participating Democrats....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:53am PST
Bush budget targets 141 programs for elimination or drastic cutbacks The Bush administration released a detailed list Thursday of the federally funded programs it wants to cut or eliminate outright from its proposed 2007 budget. The White House has embarked on a public relations campaign to promote its budget plan, which must be approved by Congress....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:27am PST
Direct Action for Katrina Survivors On Monday, February 13th, the New Orleans homeless population will skyrocket, and the survivors of Katrina will be victimized again. FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the 26,000 displaced hurricane survivors and most of these evacuees have not been provided with long-term, or even transitional housing solutions....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 10:02am PST
Direct Action for Katrina Survivors On Monday, February 13th, the New Orleans homeless population will skyrocket, and the survivors of Katrina will be victimized again. FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the 26,000 displaced hurricane survivors and most of these evacuees have not been provided with long-term, or even transitional housing solutions. The National Guard is even on call to evict these survivors at gun point....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 1:22pm PST
NOW Joins Call for Emergency Gulf Coast Renewal Plan Five months after Hurricane Katrina revealed the complete inability of the Bush administration to respond to domestic disaster, I am proud, as a New Orleanian myself, to stand with the People's Hurricane Relief Fund, the Hip Hop Caucus, Rainbow/PUSH, UP for Democracy, and others in demanding that the Administration and its friends in Congress stop stalling, stop giving out no-bid contracts to people who can't do the job, stop punishing the survivors because FEMA still hasn't managed to proces...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 11:41pm PST
President's Budget Presents Mixed Bag on HIV/AIDS Funding Increases Conflict with Medicaid Cuts and Misplaced Priorities
on Abstinence Only...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 10:30pm PST
Egypt: Relatives of victims sack offices of ferry firm Hundreds of relatives—outraged over the deaths of their loved ones in the sinking of the Egyptian ferry Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 in the Red Sea—attacked the offices of the ship’s owners on Sunday....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:08am PST
Bush proposes $2.8 trillion budget to boost military spending and slash social programs President Bush sent a $2.77 trillion budget plan to Congress on Monday that includes record spending for the military and cuts funding for a wide range of social programs. Included is $65 billion in cuts to entitlement programs over the next five years, more than half of this from Medicare. Bush is also seeking to make his first-term tax cuts permanent....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:05am PST
The Super Bowl in Detroit: the manufacturing of a “national event” Detroit is the host city of this year’s Super Bowl, the championship game of American professional football. The annual contest, which will be played this Sunday between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, has in recent years become something of a national phenomenon, almost a national rite. Proper obeisance must be paid to it. The mass media, as it does every year, has been informing the population for weeks that it can hardly wait until “Super Sunday,” when “Super Parties” wil...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:52am PST
A 20-Point Plan To Destroy Black New Orleans As reconstruction and rebuilding move forward in New Orleans and the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast region, it is clear that the lethargic and inept emergency response after Hurricane Katrina was a disaster that overshadowed the deadly storm itself. Yet, there is a "second disaster" in the making - driven by racism, classism, elitism, paternalism and old-fashioned greed....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 7:32am PST
Super Bowl: Where will the Homeless Go As Sunday’s Super Bowl draws near, some elected officials and homeless advocates are concerned about the fate of the city’s homeless population in day leading up to the event, which is expected to draw tens of thousands to Detroit....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:51am PST
US tax agency targets poor The Internal Revenue Service’s taxpayer advocate recently revealed that the agency froze tax refunds owed to hundreds of thousands of poor Americans, labeling them fraudulent. Refunds were withheld by the IRS without notifying taxpayers that their claims were under review, thereby eliminating any opportunity to respond to the agency....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:40am PST
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