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Three months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern coast of the United States, decimating communities in Mississippi and Louisiana, we play excerpts of an explosive congressional hearing focusing on race and the government's response to the disaster....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:12am PST
Tamika Middleton, of Critical Resistance South, was unfazed by tense exchanges between Republican congressmen and survivors of Hurricane Katrina during a Dec. 6 special hearing in Washington, D.C. Trouble brewed when survivors stated flat out that what happened was genocide, aimed at killing poor Black people. The red-faced GOP leaders wanted kinder, gentler language and explanations for government failures, deaths and the unclear road ahead....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:28am PST
Some photos from a housing march that went to the French Quarter...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 11:43pm PST
Death, Politics and the Condom
By YIFAT SUSSKIND...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:45am PST
For President George W. Bush, World AIDS Day was another occasion to pander to the Christian fundamentalist right wing that makes up the political base of his administration....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:13pm PST
A band of housing rights advocates gathered at the Iberville Projects on Basin St. Saturday morning to march in support of New Orleans residents right to return home after the hurricanes, especially residents of Housing Authority of New Orleans public housing....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 12:28pm PST
Two months after the October 8 earthquake that devastated Kashmir and the northern areas of Pakistan, the number killed continues to rise. Pakistani officials put the death toll at more than 87,000, but independent estimates suggest the figure could be well over 100,000. In Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, another 1,350 people were killed by the quake....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:22am PST
The Alliance for Community Trainers -- a new 501c3 organization
facilitated by Starhawk, one of the founders of Reclaim the Commons in
2004 -- will help support efforts to clean up New Orleans using the
natural methods of bioremediation: using bacteria, plants and fungi to
break down toxins and restore the health of the soil...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:21pm PST
...City's Reconstruction ~ Interview with Steve Bradberry, lead New Orleans organizer with ACORN, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 6:16am PST
Registration for Medicare new prescription drug plan opened November 15, provoking widespread anger and confusion among its potential beneficiaries. The drug benefit, also known as Medicare Part D, is a government-subsidized, privatized insurance program that covers a portion of prescription drug costs....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 9:05am PST
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 68% of women who contract AIDS are black. The CDC also reported AIDS was a leading cause of death among black women ages 25 to 44. We speak with the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:09am PST
The 18th annual World AIDS Day was observed yesterday around the theme "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise." The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children and a recent UN AIDS report showed that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. We speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:08am PST
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Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 6:39am PST
300,000 each month to lose food stamps under GOP scrooge plan...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:39pm PST
As we pull up to the apartment complex in a neighborhood East of New Orleans, all Diane's belongs are being thrown from her second story window. A worker in a forklift hauls her belongings to the street, dumping Diane's lifelong belongings on the curb. This is a common sight in New Orleans where evictions are increasing and what little rights tenants have are being ignored....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:08pm PST
More than 50,000 people are still living in hotel rooms three months since the devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina displaced as many as one million people. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is currently funding hotel stays for the evacuees who have not been able to find housing. After the next round of deadlines, FEMA will no longer pay the hotel bills....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:32am PST
I want to stress that i am not a left wing person. I am a Conservative Republican.
So one cannot dismiss this as anti gop propoganda. Is aw the horrible job fema/red cross has done and how homeless, travelers, transients are basically being told to die by the Red Cross and FEMA...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 3:06pm PST
How the environment and eating (Local Organic Food) is linked to Gandhi's ideology for transforming the world. Many links....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 11:07pm PST
...High Unemployment and Poverty Among Immigrants ~ Interview with Paul Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 11:07am PST
In the early hours of Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes cuts of nearly $50 billion over five years, primarily in social programs for the poor. At the same time, Congress is considering extending tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy in the amount of $60 billion-$70 billion over the same period....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 9:35am PST