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The Political History of Shoes 
Shoes are considered one of the first things humans made. Some made wooden shoes, some sandals from grass, some boots from fur and skins. Over time, fashion superceded utility and shoes became status symbols, as well as social factors, such as high heels and China's foot binding......
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 8:43am PDT
Back on the street blues 
A weekly cartoon from Dirtworshiping Heathens Sketchbook...
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Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 12:57pm PDT
Disability Group Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabil National Council on Disability Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 10:40am PDT
FIGHTING FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, April 13, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 1:50am PDT
‘Don’t pick our pockets to line your own’: Nationwide Social Security actions hit Schwab i CHICAGO — “Privatizing Social Security may be good business for Charles Schwab, but it’s a bad deal for working Americans,” Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon told the multiracial and multigenerational crowd of 300 that overflowed the sidewalk in front of the giant investment firm’s office here. “The stock market is a gamble,” Gannon continued, “I’ve got a mother who is 83, a daughter who is 22 and I’m 52. Privatization puts us all in jeopardy.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 2:50pm PDT
Price indexing and Social Security A time bomb Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is really a cumulative benefit reduction plan which would spell the death of Social Security....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 9:17am PST
Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits New Research From EBRI: Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:47am PST
The dysfunctional society: US billionaires on the rise—roads, bridges in decay Two recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes, tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their increasing numbers in the US. The second is the “report card” issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the state of the infrastructure in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 7:14am PST
GOP Agenda Shreds Disabled Housing The GOP Schemes To Steal Resources From The Disabled & Mentally Ill....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 5:23am PST
Men's Health Network Expresses Concerns Regarding Drug Importation n the wake of a recent report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized drugs being imported from abroad intended for American citizens, Men' Health Network would like to reiterate its concern regarding drug importation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:49pm PST
Internat'l Food Not Bombs Convergence, June in Philly gather for the 25th anniversary of food not bombs at the biotech protests/green and black urban gathering this june in philly!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 1:19pm PST
National Council on Disability Releases Latest Edition of NCD Bulletin Following is the latest electronic edition of the NCD Bulletin, a monthly publication of the National Council on Disability (NCD)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 8:57pm PST
Sign Petition- Save Housing Assistance Programs Sign The Petition To Save Low-Income Housing!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 12:37am PST
The Enough-for-All Campaign The neoliberal policy is international and supposedly without alternative. However policy is man-made and therefore can be changed.. Every person has a right to share in the social wealth....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 10:57am PST
Town hall meeting on Social Security: Michigan Democrat seeks to contain popular anger Throughout the country, Congressmen from both the Republican and Democratic parties are holding “town hall” meetings on the Bush administration’s plans for the introduction of individual private accounts to replace government-guaranteed Social Security pensions. The meetings—even those held by Republican politicians—have generally been an occasion for the venting of popular opposition to the reform of Social Security, the linchpin of the limited welfare system in the United States....
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 10:25am PST
Social Security Calculator- [Click here to see benefits] The Republicans Have Gotten Down & Dirty To Terminate Social Security And Dupe The Young Into Gambling Their Retirement Funds With The Profiteers On Wall Street! Take A Moment & Click On Link Below To See How Privatizing Social Security Would Screw You Out Of Your Determined Retirement Benefits!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 7:29pm PST
New Yorkers rally for affordable housing NEW YORK — On Feb. 2 more than 5,000 people took part in a “Housing Here and Now!” rally outside of City Hall. It was the largest show of support for affordable housing the city has seen in decades. Union members and leaders, city residents, religious groups and elected officials came together to demand city leaders enact a five-point program to put an end to New York City’s housing crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:46pm PST
The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
Bush budget assailed as ‘war’ on people WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:55pm PST
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