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Homeless Residents of New Orleans Wait for Help 
In New Orleans, 12,000 homeless persons are sleeping in cars, flooded out houses, abandoned buildings, emergency shelters and beneath freeway overpasses....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 10:26pm PDT
An Evangelical From a Conservative Background, Dr. Rocky White is Not Your Typical Advocate for Single-Payer Healthcare Monday, April 21, 2008 :While there are differences between the health care plans offered by Democratic presidential opponents Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, neither of them is proposing a single-payer system of national health care. That's despite the endorsement of precisely such a plan last December by the American College of Physicians -- the largest medical specialty organization. We speak with Dr. Rocky White, a passionate if unusual advocate for a single-payer health insurance progr...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 8:16am PDT
DON'T DELAY, SQUAT TODAY! New Poster! 
New foreclosure squatting poster....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 10:03pm PDT
Assassinations in Oaxaca Highlight Mexico as Most Dangerous Country in Western Hemisphere (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) The recent assassination of two community radio reporters in Oaxaca's Triqui region has triggered widespread international condemnation. Mexico has ranked as the deadliest country for journalists in this hemisphere for years. The two young reporters were from a self-declared "autonomous municipality" in an area characterized by decades of bitter violence. Community activists and the Mexican government's National Human Rights Commission visited the area earlier this week on a fact-finding miss...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 5:31pm PDT
Arizona Interfaith Lobby Day at State Capitol Phx Az 4-17-08 Photos Audio 
Arizona Interfaith group Lobby at State Capitol to keep programs that help people.Audio at link...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 1:19pm PDT
Audio:Arizona Interview Lobby Day State Capitol Phx Az 4-17-08 (audio/mpeg 3.6MB) 21:08 minute Audio of Arizona Interfaith group at State Capitol lobbying to keep the programs in government that help people,even in recession times....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 12:56pm PDT
Bush Grabs headlines with No Action on Climate Change The meeting of major economies is set to begin in Paris, and the US president has managed to cleverly spin headlines around a plan of no action whatsoever, except for a continued increase in carbon emissions through the year 2025. This is a sharp contrast to proposals considered viable by the UK and other civilized nations....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 4:15pm PDT
MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN THE BARRIO (audio/mpeg 25.7MB) MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN THE BARRIO IS AN AD HOC GROUP OF NYC LO INCOME TENANTS ENDORSEDN BY THE ZAPATISTAS TRYING TO STOPGENTRIFICATION OF LO COST HOUSING IN NYC AND THE WORLD. rECORDED BY KILLLRADIO.ORG WED 4-7PM PDT NON NEWS. PLEASE SUPPORT US...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 11:28am PDT
Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Part II of Raj Patel on "The Hidden Battle for the World Food" Wednesday, April 16, 2008 :The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in recent weeks, highlighting the threat of worsening already dire levels of global hunger. The World Bank estimates world food prices have risen 80 percent over the past three years and that at least 33 countries face social unrest as a result. The World Food Program has issued a rare $500 million-dollar emergency appeal to deal with the growing crisis. We go to Part II of our conversation with Raj Pat...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 7:24am PDT
Amid mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry Tuesday, April 15, 2008 :Last weeks meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Group of Seven were convened in the shadow of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While Wall Streets turmoil and the deepening credit crunch dominated discussions, leaders of the global financial institutions were forced to take note of the growing global food emergency, warning of the threat of widespread hunger and already emerging political i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 8:02am PDT
Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in North America Tuesday, April 15, 2008 :For many, Portland is a haven of green-friendly urban planning. It recently topped Popular Science's list of the Greenest Cities in the United States. A big part of that is bikes -- Portland is widely considered the most bicycle-friendly city in North America, so much so that bikes are on display throughout the Portland airport. Worldwide, it's seen as only second to Amsterdam. We speak with two local Portland transportation activists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 7:56am PDT
Gaza fuel cuts paralyze education, health and transport sectors Monday, April 14, 2008 :The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is extremely worried about the continued Israeli ban on fuel supplies required for civilian life in the Gaza Strip. The stoppage in fuel supplies has paralyzed 50 percent of the educational sector as half the students in all educational levels are unable to reach their schools and universities....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:52am PDT
India: Stop Evicting Displaced People (New York, April 14, 2008) The Indian government should stop forced eviction and relocation of tens of thousands of men, women, and children from their forest settlements in Andhra Pradesh where they sought safety from the violence in neighboring Chhattisgarh state, Human Rights Watch said today. Many thousands of men, women, and children fled to Andhra Pradesh from the conflict in Chhattisgarh....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:52am PDT
US media, Clinton assail Obama for "bitter" truth Monday, April 14, 2008 :The American media and the political rivals of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opened fire on the Illinois senator this weekend after he committed the unpardonable offense of speaking the truth, or at least a part of it, about the bitterness among working class Americans over the steady erosion of their living standards and jobs....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:50am PDT
Australia: Families hit by rising bankruptcies and home repossessions Friday, April 11, 2008 :An ABC Four Corners program recently broadcast on Australian television provided a timely insight into the desperate circumstances afflicting a growing number of ordinary Australians who are mired in debt and threatened with bankruptcy and the loss of their home. Entitled Debtland and produced by journalist Stephen Long, the program was aired on March 31 and focussed on the predatory lending practices pursued by banks and financial institutions....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 9:29pm PDT
Egypt: Mass protests over price hikes Friday, April 11, 2008 :The Egyptian government rushed April 8 to grant some concessions to workers after two days of riots over high food prices and low wages spread across the northern industrial city of Mahalla al-Kobra, 100 kilometres north of Cairo, the Associated Press reported....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 7:45am PDT
House Committee Approves Bill to Address Deadly Dust Explosions Thursday, April 10, 2008 : Memorial to the 13 workers killed in the Imperial Sugar Co. blast. Sugar dust, like other industrial dusts, is extremely combustible, but despite the urging of safety experts, the Bush administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has yet to set a federal standard to control combustible dust levels....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 8:26am PDT
As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System" Tuesday, April 8, 2008 :Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent ---- in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six month...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 8:29am PDT
Hundreds of homeless forcibly evicted from Southern California refuge Monday, April 7, 2008 :Dozens of police and state officials descended on the Ontario, California homeless encampment known as “tent city” on March 17 under the pretext of reducing crime and stopping the spread of disease. Approximately 200 residents living at the encampment were forcibly removed. Residents, many with severe physical and mental disabilities, had been given little notice of the planned eviction....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:37am PDT
Egypt: 117 NGOs Slam HIV-Based Arrests and Trials (New York/Cairo April 7, 2008) - As five more men face trial in Cairo on April 9 in a widening and dangerous police crackdown on people living with HIV/AIDS, 117 organizations worldwide working in the fields of health and human rights condemned the crackdown and the participation of medical personnel....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:34am PDT
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