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SB 1161 Deregulation of Telecommunications in California 
This article provides background on SB 1161 (Padilla), a bill written to benefit powerful telecommunications, cable and information technology corporations. This bill will cause the deregulation of telecommunications in California to the detriment of consumers and labor....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 11:35pm PDT
Free Speech Radio News: The pace of fundraising must increase... 
FSRN must raise another $33,000 by June 30 to make our budget. And we aren't on track to do that. We need these donations to stay on the air. Without meeting this goal, we may have to shut down permanently....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 11:25pm PDT
Mass Protest of Indian Nuclear Power Plant 
Dr. Kumar Udayakumar speaks about the movement to stop the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Over 60 villages oppose the nuclear power plant. Protests, hunger strikes, and nonviolent protests mount as the nuclear power plant prepares to start operations. (15:56)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 8:20pm PDT
California Calls for Austerity for Disabled Children In the Budget Proposal for 2012-2013, Governor Jerry Brown proposes to defund California Children's Services' Medical Therapy Program by establishing harsh and restrictive financial requirements for the families of the disabled children who rely on this vital service....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 8:17am PDT
No SNWA Pipeline! Let's Keep the SPRING in Spring Valley! 539 members of the Goshute tribe in western Utah are all that stand between the Southern Nevada Water Authority and a proposed multi-billion-dollar pipeline that would “pump billions of gallons of groundwater” from the Goshutes’ home in Spring Valley “to parched Las Vegas,” in a 92" wide pipe that would run for 300 miles....
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 5:30pm PDT
Are Our Troops in the Middle East Victims or Accomplices? It's No Wonder Our Troops Commit Suicide in Unparalleled Numbers...
Posted: Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:13pm PDT
Congress pushes to deregulate Public Housing Authorities across the nation Currently there are only 35 MTWs existing across the nation since the program was enacted in 1996, and If deregulation continues by allowing more Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to morph into an MTW, this may eventually allow for the total corruption of all PHAs, which currently are required to serve the interests of low-income renters and families, the disabled and elderly!...
Posted: Wed, May 30, 2012 10:10am PDT
Landlords cannot evict tenants without good cause in public subsidized low-income housing This means that in addition to large cities that struggled hard to enact "just cause eviction protections," such as Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, low-income renters in publicly subsidized housing that is funded by local governments in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and throughout cities and rural areas of California, are now also protected by just cause eviction protections!...
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2012 9:20am PDT
Tribal Leaders gather in Las Vegas to oppose SNWA water pipeline More than 25 Tribal Leaders, from four states, will gather in Las Vegas to issue a joint statement asking the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to deny the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA) proposed groundwater pipeline project application....
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2012 5:16pm PDT
Goshutes battle to save their sacred water from SNWA pipeline Elders of the Goshute Nation and many scientists agree that removal of aquifer water from eastern Nevada with the SNWA proposed pipeline for Las Vegas suburban development will destroy the spring fed ecosystems that the goshute have depended upon for their cultural and physical survival. Preparations for spiritual and mental battle to protect sacred Goshute water are beginning....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2012 5:24pm PDT
¿Conocen “La 72” Hogar refugio para migrantes en Tenosique, Tabasco? 
Es urgente la ayuda....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2012 7:07pm PDT
Do you know about “The 72” migrant shelter in Tenosique, Tabasco, México? 
Help is urgently needed....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2012 7:03pm PDT
Genetics vs. Genesis ~ Mad Cow Disease and Chicken Self-Regulation ~ 2012 Farm Bill 
As the global questions mount concerning the human safety, nutritional content and genetically modified feed mount concerning global markets for USDA certified products, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow will now have additional support to craft a 2012 Farm Bill legislation that elevates food safety and local food production while protecting industrial commercial agriculture from Rural America. Global consumers and a growing number of domestic consumers are very con...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 4:16am PDT
Houston Keep Sharing Free! Important Documents 
In week four of the ongoing struggle for justice for organizations that serve Houston homeless in public spaces, these are some of the most important current documents....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2012 12:09pm PDT
Occupy Eugene: Occupy Now Has A Newsletter 
Occupy Eugene is a nonviolent movement for accountability in the United States government located in Eugene, Oregon.
We gather in solidarity with the ongoing protest in New York City, Occupy Wall Street, and the growing number of cities whose people will no longer sit back watching corporate and special interests run their government. We are citizens of the United States, and this country is ours. We will take it back.
It is no longer enough to vote and to participate in the political s...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 3:05pm PDT
Native Americans protest Obama approval of pipeline's south end 
“Natives in Canada live downstream from toxic tar sands mines,” said Earl Hatley, “and they are experiencing spikes in colon, liver, blood and rare bile-duct cancers which the Canadian government and oil companies simply ignore. And now they want to pipe these tar sands through the heart of Indian country, bulldozing grave sites and ripping out our heritage.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2012 4:51pm PDT
This Week in Palestine, March 16th, 2012 (audio/mpeg 7.7MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 10th to 16th 2012...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 9:06pm PDT
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa ~ demonstrating inclusive Good Jobs, Green Jobs 
Black Agriculture is taking a leading role in expanding the diversity and inclusion of Good Jobs, Green Jobs with the support from new and historic collaborative partners. Together, we will do more to bring build bridges for diverse community leaders to join the conversation. Now is the time to embrace new opportunities that create sustainable jobs and career development that protect our enviroment while expanding economic development. The path toward union wage cooperative agriculture job...
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 10:22pm PDT
CNA DeMaro Missing In Action MIA On Millionaires Tax And Oil Extraction Tax? The CNA says it is supporting the California Millionaires tax but you won't find anything about this on their CNA website and they refuse to kick in any serious money for the initiative. It maybe because they don't want to attack Jerry Brown who the actively upported....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:09pm PST
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