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Fracking-Harmed Residents Travel to D.C. to Call On EPA to Stop Ignoring Its Own Science 10.28.15, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today residents from communities across the country with fracking contaminated drinking water joined with advocates at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board public meetings to demand that EPA stop ignoring its own evidence of fracking water pollution, and correct the faulty declaration that the agency did “not find evidence that [fracking has] led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources”....
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 9:09pm PDT
Bacon, Ham, Sausage May Be Labeled as Carcinogens in California OAKLAND, Calif. — The World Health Organization today classified the consumption of processed meats like bacon, ham and sausage as carcinogenic to humans, and red meat as probably carcinogenic. Under California’s Proposition 65, today’s decision should trigger a similar classification in California, requiring these meats sold throughout the state to include a label warning that the products are known to the state of California to cause cancer....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 2:43pm PDT
Sam Farr's Response re: "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015" 
I too opposed this legislation for a myriad of reasons. Unfortunately, this legislation passed in the House by a margin of 275 to 150 and has been received in the Senate where it was referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 11:11pm PDT
National Medical Association Urges Rescheduling 
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), one of the largest medical organizations in the United States, is calling for changing the federal classification of cannabis to a drug with medical uses....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 10:40pm PDT
Study Confirms Long-term Cannabis Use Is Safe 
A study of patients using medical cannabis to control chronic pain has confirmed that prolonged use is safe. Researchers found that pain patients using medical cannabis were no more likely to suffer serious adverse events than non-cannabis patients....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 10:32pm PDT
Kettle Falls Patients Get Federal Prison Sentences 
President Obama Urged to Pardon All Three Defendants and End Prosecutions...
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 9:35pm PDT
Public Interest Groups Support California Intent to Label Glyphosate Carcinogenic SACRAMENTO, CA (October 19, 2015)—Today, nearly 20 food, farming, public health and environmental organizations submitted a letter (see PDF) in support of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA’s) determination to list glyphosate as a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (aka Proposition 65)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2015 2:17pm PDT
New Database Shows Nanotechnology in Common Food Products 
October 5, 2015 (Washington, DC)—Center for Food Safety (CFS) today released a new searchable database of consumer food products that contain nanotechnology. Common food related products that contain nanotechnology include candies (M&M’s, Skittles), baby bottles, and plastic storage containers. Nanotechnology is a powerful but novel platform for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level with important human and environmental health ramifications. The database co...
Posted: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 3:39pm PDT
Ohio Cannabis Legalization Initiative – A Cautionary Tale for California 
Receiving scant attention from marijuana legalization advocates and just about zero attention in the national media, voters in Ohio will be deciding on a very controversial marijuana legalization initiative this November. It is a cautionary tale that the backers of California’s multiple marijuana legalization initiatives should be paying close attention to....
Posted: Mon, Oct 5, 2015 10:48am PDT
Doctors Without Borders Spokesperson Says US Knew Coordinates Of Hospital Doctors Without Borders reported that the attack by US planes on their hospital in Afghanistan did not stop for 45 minutes after
a call to the USG was made/...
Posted: Sat, Oct 3, 2015 1:41pm PDT
National Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Day October 7 (audio/mpeg 30.7MB) Friends and families of loved ones with serious mental illness hold National Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Day October 7, 2015 to urge Representatives Upton and Pallone to Pass HR 2646 "The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 2, 2015 8:36am PDT
State Investment: The Beloved Enemy "The slow one now will later be fast as the present now will later be past." The state unlike the Swabian housewife can become indebted to invest in a more social and more human future. The state could protect nature and future generations (cf. Mary Wood) instead of cannibalizing itself in neoliberal myths. All personal achievement and corporate profits (c.g. Apple's Smartphone, Touchscreen and the Internet) would be impossible without state investments in roads, schools, hospitals, food saf...
Posted: Fri, Oct 2, 2015 6:14am PDT
Groups Sue to Overturn Controversial Wyoming Data-Censorship Laws CHEYENNE, WY (September 29, 2015) – A diverse coalition of conservation, press, academic and animal-protection groups filed suit today in federal court seeking to strike down a pair of Wyoming state laws that stifle freedom of speech and make citizen science illegal in the state. The suit claims that in violation of Americans’ constitutional rights, the laws punish communication to government agencies of photos and data taken on open land, criminalizing otherwise lawful advocacy in an attempt...
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 3:00pm PDT
Neglect of Public Housing Crisis and chance are represented by the same Chinese letter. Big US and German cities sold off public housing to gain revenue so the public housing stock fell from 3.5 million to 1.5 million. The housing emergency in Germany and the US demands counter-measures and tax incentives. The Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit program has financed 2-3 million units. The state is obligated to protect human rights from the brutal and authoritarian profit-oriented market. Public spirit and trust b...
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 4:55am PDT
Catholic Hospital Refuses Procedure for Pregnant Woman With Brain Tumor GRAND BLANC, Mich. — A Catholic hospital in Michigan denied a pregnant woman with a life-threatening brain tumor a request to get her tubes tied at the time of her scheduled C-section next month. The refusal comes following a demand letter sent on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan last week and despite the hospital’s prior record of granting exceptions to other women seeking the same procedure....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 5:18pm PDT
Gahiji Lumumba Barrow interviews Leroy Perry, Donald Jones and Lauren Anderson (audio/mpeg 31.5MB) Gahiji Lumumba Barrow interviews Leroy Perry who runs the re-entry program at the homeless Mission in New Orleans they are joined by Lauren Anderson a staff attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders Office and Donald Jones who is a re-entry client. 23:47...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 7:22am PDT
Mirandizing People with Intellectual Disabilities, interview by Gahiji Barrow with Janet Hays (audio/mpeg 21.3MB) Mirandizing People with Intellectual Disabilities, an interview by Gahiji Barrow with Janet Hays, founder of Healing Minds NOLA and mental health advocate- Ann Morel, mother who bravely shares her story -and Morel's lawyer Josephine Heller of Manasseh, Gill, Knipe, and Belanger...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2015 6:46am PDT
WTUL News & Views Interviews Noah Morris and Roger Benham, formerly of Common Ground (audio/mpeg 30.6MB) Noah Morris and Roger Benham join WTUL News and Views for an in studio about their experience as part of Common Ground Health Clinic in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2015 7:27am PDT
Kai Lumumba Barrow and Shana Griffin talk about Ecohybridity: A Love Song For NOLA (audio/mpeg 19.5MB) WTUL News and Views Speaks to Kai Barrow and Shana Griffin about Ecohybridity: A Love Song for NOLA, a visual black opera in 5 acts that kicks off this weekend on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 7:36am PDT
Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina by Kate Browne (audio/mpeg 41.7MB) Professor Kate Browne speaks to WTUL News and Views about her new book, Standing in the Need, a 7 year study of a large family's struggle to return home and live in New Orleans after Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 7:14am PDT
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