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  • TO THE WHOLE WORLD
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Don’t try to find the little Jesus in the beautiful pictures of ours nativity scenes, we will find him between the famished children, who this evening, will sleep tonight without having eating”
    “If I don’t have conscience, I can sleep at night”
    HAPPY NEW YEAR !
    FELICE ANNO NUOVO AL COLLETTIVO ! (Grazie Roberto)
    FELIZ AÑO NUEVO !
    BONNE ANNÉE !
    Esteban

  • A Religious Protest Largely From the Left
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority
    By Jonathan Weisman and Alan Cooperman
    When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them.
    That is a great relief to Republican leaders, who have dismissed the burgeoning protests as the work of liberals. But it raises the question: Why in recent years (…)

  • GOP’s New War On The Poor Designed To Accomodate the Nation’s Wealthiest 0.2%
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    In a shocking but nevertheless not surprising maneuver U.S. House Republicans are attempting to introduce a bill that will cause serious damage to the already precarious existence of the nation’s 37 million poor.
    In a multi-pronged attack the Republicans have endeavered to target the safety net that the nation’s children and those living in poverty rely on.
    Programs targeted include food stamps, school lunch programs, student aid for college, child support (…)

  • Youths in Rural U.S. Are Drawn To Military
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Recruits’ Job Worries Outweigh War Fears
    By Ann Scott Tyson
    As sustained combat in Iraq makes it harder than ever to fill the ranks of the all-volunteer force, newly released Pentagon demographic data show that the military is leaning heavily for recruits on economically depressed, rural areas where youths’ need for jobs may outweigh the risks of going to war.
    More than 44 percent of U.S. military recruits come from rural areas, Pentagon figures show. In contrast, 14 percent come from (…)

  • Bush, Congress Turn a Cold Shoulder To America’s Poor This Winter
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    President Bush and Congress nixed winter heating aid for poor families 3 months after subsidizing oil companies. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said "this is not something I would be in favor of (using some of the oil profits to help the nations poor). That would be the equivalent of windfall profits tax" Bodman went on to say that any transfer of oil profits to programs to help the poor with heating this winter is not even under consideration.
    Some Democrats in (…)

  • Bid for More Home Heating Aid Fails in Senate
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Senate decided yesterday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.
    Senators voted 54 to 43 in favor of a proposal to boost the fiscal 2006 budget for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion. A 60-vote majority was needed to approve new spending not coupled with equivalent spending (…)

  • Open Season On America’s Seniors
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert M. Hayes
    Robert M. Hayes, an attorney, is president of the Medicare Rights Center, the nation’s largest independent source of information and assistance on health care rights and benefits for older and disabled men and women. He led the national and New York Coalitions for the Homeless from 1979 to 1989, and has practiced law with firms in New York and Maine.
    Deer hunting season is just starting up in much of the northern United States.
    But the Bush administration has already (…)

  • Bush And Big Oil May Be Making A Killing This Winter
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies, and this month the Republican controlled House of Representatives gave billions more in tax breaks to the oil industry while doing nothing to lower gas prices.
    Despite this windfall for the already rich stockholders and their friends, President Bush has proposed cutting funds to help the poor heat their homes this winter. The nation’s 37 million (…)

  • New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again!
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BILL QUIGLEY
    They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left (…)

  • Gentrification Sweeps Streets of New Orleans Rolling in Cop Cars
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point.
    All (…)