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After the Kashmir earthquake, warnings of a second disaster Even as the toll following the October 8 earthquake in northern Pakistan and India continues to rise, aid workers are warning of a second disaster. Hundreds of thousands of people are facing the Himalayan winter without shelter or adequate supplies of food, clothing and medicine....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 7:30am PDT
Florida Medicaid privatization plan approved Last week US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt signed off on a Florida plan that will transform the state’s Medicaid program. The new plan, which will come into effect after receiving final approval from the state legislature, will largely privatize the health care program for the poor and elderly. It will also set caps on state expenditures....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 7:24am PDT
Malik Rahim Demands Inquiry into Hurricane Katrina Deaths and Amnesty for “Looters” This past weekend, activists, scholars and survivors testified at a people’s inquiry set up to present evidence and assess whether President Bush and his administration have committed crimes against humanity. Malik Rahim traveled to New York to testify....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 7:31am PDT
Oppose Harmful Budget Cuts and Tax Breaks for the Wealthy National Call-in Days extended. Call 1-800-426-8073, Contact your senators and representatives or email the message: Congress must not cut aid to the poor, uninsured, hungry and homeless!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 6:17am PDT
Urgent Alert: Click Here For Link To Stop Budget Cuts! The GOP Schemes To Loot The Nations Domestic Programs, To Be Able To Give More Multi-Trillion Dollar Tax Cuts To The Super Rich!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 5:32pm PDT
The Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmiri earthquake 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
Special Call-In Day - Urgent Budget Cuts Update 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
Hope and Desperation in the Deep South: Support Activists Helping Others Now 
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
Mike Davis on The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu 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
Michael Eric Dyson "Some of Us are In First Class, But The Plane Is In Trouble" 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
White House, Congress press plans for major cuts in social programs 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
Who Will Take Out the Garbage: A Report from New Orleans 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
New Orleans--Some sunshine after the floods Racism is like the black mold eating away at the long-submerged houses....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
Pakistan Will Never Forget This Horror: Things are Bad and Getting Worse October 11, 2005 -- Tariq Ali in Lahore...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:03am PDT
New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! 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
Solidarity Not Charity Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
The Blind Leading the Relief Efforts: Thai communities come together despite foreign aid 
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
Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India 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
hurricane stan 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
Will President Bush Help Homeless? Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to help?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 2:44pm PDT
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