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  • US mortgage crisis forces homeowners to take refuge in their cars
    25 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SUE ZEIDLER IN LOS ANGELES
    THEY are victims of the United States’ growing mortgage crisis - low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime.
    But in Los Angeles, where having a car is as essential as owning a home, many are sleeping in their vehicles to ensure a roof over their head.
    Campaigners for the homeless expect more to hole up in their cars as they lose homes due to the problems that have dogged (…)

  • Millenium promise conference
    9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 2006, how to explain so much poverty around the world? Today, november 9th, a conference about poverty among children, the "Millenium promise conference", is opening in Montreal, Canada. Will be there, star actress Mia Farrow and former US President, Bill Clinton. It is strange indeed to see Clinton there, the man who cut welfare benefits when he was president. Maybe he is a new man now.
    It is difficult to explain why our political leaders with plenty of diplomas from top (…)

  • MD GOP Candidate Recruits Homeless to Pass Out Deceptive Flyers
    7 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Misleading flyers were handed out at several Maryland polling places by men and women recruited by the GOP governor’s campaign from out-of-state homeless shelters, the Washington Post reports. The flyers, given to voters in a heavily Democratic area, showed GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich as a Democrat:
    Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant governor who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. (…)

  • Bush’s Poverty Talk Is Now All but Silent Aiding Poor Was Brief Priority After Katrina
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael A. Fletcher
    Poverty forced its way to the top of President Bush’s agenda in the confusing days after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans. Confronted with one of the most pressing political crises of his presidency, Bush, who in the past had faced withering criticism for speaking little about the poor, said the nation has a solemn duty to help them.
    "All of us saw on television, there’s . . . some deep, persistent poverty in this region," he said (…)

  • Iraq Veterans Facing Homelessness
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK As a member of the National Guard, Nadine Beckford patrolled New York train stations after Sept. 11 with a 9mm pistol, then served a treacherous year in Iraq.
    Now, six months after returning, Beckford lives in a homeless shelter.
    "I’m just an ordinary person who served. I’m not embarrassed about my homelessness, because the circumstances that created it were not my fault," said Beckford, 30, who was a military-supply specialist at a base in Iraq that was a sitting duck for (…)

  • hope
    12 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    view this video "World’s on Fire" by Sarah McLachlan
    http://www.worldonfire.ca/
    think about it.

  • CALL TO RESISTANCE!
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    EUROPEAN COORDINATION AGAINST PRECARIOUSNESS: STRASBURG, JUNE 9th-10th-11th
    For decades, a fierce neo-liberal policy has done its work all over Europe. We - as well as the environment around us - endure, everyday, the effects of this alienating system. This logic finds expression in all-out industrialism, everlasting perpetuation of established elites and ideological formatting, relayed by mass-media, governments and omnipresent aggressive advertising.
    Economy has become the sole (…)

  • CHAVEZ : “Socialism will help to find a solution to poverty and misery”
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/socialism_solution_poverty_misery.htm By National Radio of Venezuela Tuesday, 16 May 2006
    The head of the Venezuelan State attended a mass rally where British people and the London Mayor Ken Livingstone showed their support for the Bolivarian Revolution and its leader, Hugo Chávez Frías.
    As planned, this Sunday May 14, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, addressed a mass rally at the Camden Centre, organised by (…)

  • Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans from being counted
    By Christopher Moraff
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2513/
    Standing before the House rostrum on the night of January 31, President George W. Bush beamed as he recounted the state of the country’s economic health.
    “Our economy is healthy,” the president declared during his State of the Union address. “Americans should not fear our economic future, (…)

  • IRAQ : Food Rations Hurt Poor
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Daud Salman in Baghdad (ICR No. 170, 29-Mar-06)
    March 31, 2006
    A government decision to cut food rations has hurt poor Iraqis who cannot afford high prices on the open market, say economists and Baghdad residents.
    Despite rising poverty, the government has decided to cut the food ration budget from four to three billion US dollars in 2006, as the country shifts from a socialist to a free market economy.
    The Iraqi government has provided subsidies on basic food items such as flour (…)