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BTL:New Orleans Homeowners Coalition Stops House Demolitions in Court Interview with Bill Quigley, attorney representing New Orleans homeowners, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 8:56am PST
New Medicare Plan Keeps Seniors Guessing On January 1, 2006, the new Medicare prescription-drug program began. Many Black residents in New York City – especially the low-income, disabled and seniors – remain uncertain about how the law will affect them. Grappling with information, most of them are confused and swamped with questions about the registration process, which drug plan is best for them, and what's covered and what's not....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:33am PST
Solidarity with Lower 9th Ward City bulldozes homes in Lower 9th without contacting owners. No support for rebuilding offered (no trash pickup, no electrical power, no roof tarping, etc.) while Army Corps of Engineers pays the bill for bulldozing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 7:45pm PST
Reports document growing social inequality in Australia Last month, as corporate boardrooms toasted Australia’s “boom” economy, the Catholic charity organisation, the St Vincent de Paul Society, released a report documenting the growing gap between the country’s rich and poor....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:23pm PST
Tsunami survivors left to suffer on Andaman and Nicobar islands Just over a year ago, the December 26 tsunami devastated the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a low-lying and mostly uninhabited chain of 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. Officially, more than 3,000 people were confirmed dead and another 5,000 missing on the archipelago, which was the closest Indian territory to the earthquake’s epicentre. Aid agencies and local groups, however, believe that twice as many people died....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:23pm PST
VIDEO: Direct Action in New Orleans: Chief Al's Stuff 10 min Quicktime video...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 10:42pm PST
Lower 9th Ward Citizens Fight Demolition in New Orleans 
The city of New Orleans is attempting to destroy the homes of residents in the Lower 9th Ward. This is in spite of a temporary moratorium won by social justice groups against the city which blocks attempts to bulldoze the homes of Lower 9th Ward residents. The moratorium, which ends on January 6th, 2006, is being circumvented by the city through the unconstitutional use of eminent domain. Local residents are working alongside Common Ground Collective, a grass-roots organization working for th...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 8:34pm PST
Death to the System! Populist History & Spoken Word w/ New Orleans Kalamu ya Salaam 
New Orleans neo-griot Kalamu ya Salaam announces Listen to the People radical history project & blows the roof off NYC Bowery Poetry Club Katrina benefit with a "poem" perhaps described as "Superdome Systems of Thought - Death to the System!"
25 minute, 37 MG quicktime.mov video....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 10:50pm PST
India’s tsunami victims abandoned One year after the tsunami devastated southern Asia, millions of people in the southern and eastern coastal areas of India are yet to return to their normal lives. Contrary to the big promises made by the national and Tamil Nadu state governments, relief and rehabilitation measures largely remain in the distant future....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 7:57pm PST
Stripping Grandma's Cupboard -- Congress Cuts Food Money to Grandparents Raising Kids Among the budget cuts that squeaked through Congress just before Christmas was a provision that will take food -- $400 million worth -- out of the already-bare cupboards of grandparent-headed households....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:26pm PST
The Tsunami, One Year Later: More Than A Million Still Homeless in Sri Lanka On this first anniversary of the tsunami that devastated South Asia, we look at the fallout for the people of Sri Lanka. We speak with the Sri Lankan ambassador to the United Nations, an anti-poverty activist in Sri Lanka, and a physician treating Tamil refugees....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:41am PST
US Senate passes budget bill slashing social programs The US Senate finished up the final days of its session for the year by pushing through a top priority measure—a budget reconciliation bill that will cut spending in entitlement programs for students, the poor and the elderly. Once the bill is signed into law, it will mark the first cutback in entitlement spending in nearly a decade....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:36pm PST
Billions in bonuses for Wall Street execs; mayor denounces “selfish” transit workers Earlier this week New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced striking transit workers as overpaid and selfish “thugs” who were indifferent to the impact of their walkout on the city’s working poor. These comments were rather rich coming from a mayor who, with a net worth of $5 billion, is rated number 34 on Forbes magazine’s list of wealthiest Americans....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:34pm PST
Cheney Casts Tie-Breaking Senate Vote Cutting $40 Billion to the Poor Yesterday the senate narrowly passed a budget bill to cut $40 billion dollars of federal spending by ending funding for foster care, child support and student loans. The bill would also impose new fees on Medicaid recipients and new work restrictions on state welfare programs. We speak with Robert Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about details of the bill....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 9:25am PST
Global Poverty Grows Free traders praise thisglobalization as a panacea for spreading prosperity and combating poverty. However employees are not harvesting the fruits of this development.. Half of the workers of the world do not earn enough to free themselves and their families from poverty....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 6:26am PST
Hunger and homelessness up 12%: US Conference of Mayors CHICAGO, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors/Sodexho USA annual hunger and homelessness survey released yesterday reports increased need for emergency food and shelter in 24 U.S. cities, especially among the nation's working poor families. Requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 12 percent in the past year with 76 percent of the cities surveyed reporting an increase in demands....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 3:32pm PST
Dec. 21st National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day:::Washington, DC::: Dec. 21st National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
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Embargoed Until: December 21, 2005
CONTACTS: Michael Stoops- 202-462-4822 x19, mstoops@nationalhomeless.org
Michael O’Neill- 202-462-4822 x20, moneill@nationalhomeless.org...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 6:22pm PST
New Orleans Residents Face Eviction From Homes as Rents Skyrocket Three months after fighting for their lives in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, many survivors are now fighting to keep their homes in the city of New Orleans. We speak with attorney Ishmael Muhammad and a N.O. resident being evicted about the rising costs of rent and the legal challenges facing evacuees....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:21am PST
Workers in New Orleans Denied Pay, Proper Housing and Threatened with Deportation In the clean-up efforts following the devastation of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, many undocumented workers and homeless people were recruited to the area to work under large companies contracted by the federal government. We speak with Newsday reporter Tina Susman, who has investigated the case of a group of homeless men, and Bill Chandler, about subcontractors and workers' complaints....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:20am PST
Katrina’s Aftermath: The Catastrophe Continues Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was and still is a social disaster....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:28pm PST
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