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From the Ground Up: Race and the Left Response to Katrina
“For a lot of people, people of color from New Orleans and the south, we’re all trying to put our lives together. If we had the means, if we had the same privilege, we would be here too, we would be organizing and fighting for our community. It’s important for people to realize the privilege they have and others don’t have.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:41am PST
Fresno Food Not Bombs celebrates 10 years of feeding the hungry
Saturday January 14th Fresno Food Not Bombs celebrated 10 years straight of Saturday meal servings....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:02am PST
GASOLINE PRICE HIKING BOYCOTT
Again gasoline prices are soaring out of control and the petroleum giants are back on track to make record profits. Washington will not act so Californians need to protect their interest by boycotting the petroleum industry....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 10:22pm PST
Iran issues stark warning on oil price
Iran stepped up its defiance of international pressure over its nuclear programme yesterday by warning of soaring oil prices if it is subjected to economic sanctions. As diplomats from the US, Europe, Russia, and China prepared to meet today in London to discuss referring Tehran to the UN security council, Iran's economy minister, Davoud Danesh-Jafari, said the country's position as the world's fourth-largest oil producer meant such action would have grave consequences....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 9:35pm PST
911 -- the key issue to stop the facsists in their tracks
This is a repost of an article written by Project Censored journalist and 911truth.org executive director David Kubiak. I think it is important that we see the validity of his analysis because 911 is the fulcrum issue for change. Many of us are taking on important issues like civil rights, the war, election reform, militarism in our schools, prison reform, etc., but none of these individual issues will change the corrupt system or the rational for endless war. What we need one "strategi...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 10:37am PST
Marylanders stand up to Wal-Mart. Who's next?
A bill originally vetoed by Republican Governor Ehrlich in 2005, the Fair Share Health Care Act now requires Maryland's largest employers - those with over 10,000 employees - to live up to an employers' responsibility to make healthcare affordable to all employees....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:55pm PST
BAUCUS:WHEN NOT TAKING ABRAMOFF CONTRIBUTIONS HE'S OUTSOURCING AMERICAN JOBS
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT BETRAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 12:03pm PST
Wall Street grabs $21.5 billion in bonuses
In what amounts to a massive misappropriation of social wealth, Wall Street’s major investment banks and trading firms are handing out $21.5 billion in year-end bonuses for 2005....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:23pm PST
FDA produces memos on benzene in some soft drinks
Here are two memos produced by the FDA under the Freedom of Information today on the tendency of benzene to form in certain soft drinks. A pdf of the actual memos is available upon request....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 11:03am PST
VENEZUELA'S BOLIVARIAN MOMENT - ITS PROMISE AND PERILS
A review of the Bolivarian Revolution achievements and threat to Hugo Chavez from the U.S...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:19am PST
American Indian Media: Tribes' Greed Led Them Into Abramoff Scandal
ative American media say that several Indian tribes are players, not victims, in the scandal involving lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon and members of Congress....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:55am PST
End of a Legend
Instead of overcapacities and selling houses to each other, Americans are called to radical economic change and sustaina-bility. The economy should serve humanity and the state should be more than a trough for the superrich. Progress and work should be redefined for the post-fossil age....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 5:59am PST
Does Steve Forbes magazine cover up for National Taxpayers Union founder ?
Steve Forbes,shame on you for misleading your own reporter,and even worse your subscribers, about the true Beltway-Davidson origens of the 'anti-naked short selling' scam....It may be past time to ask the SEC to get the CIA out of stock investing.As they set a bad precedent.And other federal agencies may justify a similar scheme as the CIA and or NSA who both use the same IT that the GAO and the SEC and the White House etc etc all use and that appears to be SRA International's predominantly....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 4:15am PST
Saul Landau Contrasts Capitol's Upper Echelons to Streetcorner Oakland
The view is not pretty.
Voluta abajo para una versión en español....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 1:05pm PST
12 Still Held in Hong Kong
> The action in Hong Kong against WTO is not over. The 12 WTO protesters
> are still in Hong Kong because the police brought them to court for
> trial. They have been released from jail on bail but they have to stay
> in Hong Kong until the trial on January 11....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 10:06am PST
World Ag Expo ~ Black Farmers Request Official Government Investigation
Black Farmers have submitted an official government request to investigate racial discrimination and disparaging treatment by World Ag Expo officials. World Ag Expo 2006 General Manager has resigned unexpectedly and offending administrative policy statements have been removed from public view. What remain are specific remedy that match the allegations being investigated and a positive way forward to achieve one standard for all of humanity....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:52pm PST
The Social Contract and God's Reign
he truth will set us free but the truth is a process, not a cudgel. Discovering the Bible in the Bible, the kerygma or proclamation of Jesus, is vital to disarm the literalists. Literalism can repress mystery, uncertainty, diversity, engagement and interdependence....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:09am PST
'Energy Dissent' and the 2006 G8 Summit in Russia
Reclaim the debate! Resist the G8! In July 2006, the G8 will hold its annual Summit in St.Petersburg, Russia. Vladimir Putin says he's placing "energy security" at the top of the G8 agenda during Russia's presidency. The G8 countries consume 45% of world oil and produce 47% of global CO2 emissions. Their "energy security" is our energy grave!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 5:06pm PST