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  • Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LIBBY QUAID
    Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each, The Associated Press has learned.
    The plan by Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., would reduce farmers’ payments by 2.5 percent across the board, slashing spending by $1.145 billion over five years. That’s half the 5 percent the Bush (…)

  • Former Republican Education Secty:"If You Wanted to Reduce Crime You Could Abort Every Jewish Baby"
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [Oops, that’s Black baby. Isn’t this a hate crime? If the fool had said Israeli however , he’d likely create a furor and do jail time. But he said Black which is no problemo in Amerika, right?]
    "You Could Abort Every Black Baby in this Country" by Congressman John Conyers Thu Sep 29th, 2005 at 11:43:28 PDT
    Former Republican Education Secretary, Bill Bennett stated on his radio program yesterday that, "if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - abort (…)

  • Chavez nails US again-Chickens in Cuba get better treatment than US residents
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested on Sunday that chickens in Cuba get better treatment from authorities than black residents of the hurricane-ravaged US city of New Orleans.
    "In Cuba, when they know a hurricane is coming, chickens, hens and people are all evacuated," Chavez said in an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, stepping up his rhetoric against the US government.
    "A hurricane recently destroyed many towns in Cuba but not a single person (…)

  • Interview from ’Dome City’ with Josh from New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of ’Dome City.’ Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrested that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)
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    Josh discusses the poor treatment of people evacuated to the (…)

  • Chavez vows to help U.S. poor
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To thunderous applause and chants in Spanish of "Chavez, friend, the people are with you," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode into the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew yesterday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
    Chavez told the house packed with peace and anti-globalization activists and community and religious leaders that he would soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below-market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States.
    "I felt a (…)

  • A Reality Check on Bush’s Speech to the UN World Summit
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yifat Susskind
    On September 14, George W. Bush addressed a gathering of over 170 world leaders at the UN World Summit. His speech came in the wake of international outrage against the US for its attempts to derail the Summit’s original purpose, which was to make progress on reducing global poverty. Given the disconnect between the President’s words and deeds, we offer the following MADRE reality check on some of Bush’s more egregious comments at the World Summit.
    "Either hope will (…)

  • Wake of the Hurricane : Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    Sports stars are generally known more for their narcissism than their compassion, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, athletes have expressed a tremendous amount of altruism and anguish over the amount of human suffering the storm has caused. That’s not surprising, when you consider that more than 100 professional athletes come from the Gulf Coast, an area whose deep poverty, institutionalized racism and year-round sunshine combine to offer the requisite conditions for (…)

  • Bush and Third World America
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Out of Chaos, an Awakening
    The images coming out of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular have been nothing short of unfathomable, nightmarish visions of anarchy and misery, a ghoulish reality haunting our minds and lives. For what we see on our television sets is a devastation of humanity never before seen or experienced or felt within American shores. It is a surreal and up close glimpse of natural and human made destruction reserved almost exclusively for (…)

  • The Victims, ’Largely Poor and Black’
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID GONZALEZ
    The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African- American leaders, there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society.
    The victims, they note, were largely black and poor, those who toiled in the background of the tourist havens, living in (…)

  • G.O.P.(Greedy Old People) or coincidence?
    2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s just sooo heart warming to see how the "biggies" plunder the U.S. Treasury. Send 25,000 desperate people 750-800 miles to the Houston dome (which has little or no rental income) and the G.O.P. "biggies" are only going to charge "Uncle Sam" $3,750,000.00" ($150.00 per person per day) WOW !!!
    This is the Greatest country on Earth (if you’re rich,well connected and Very Greedy) Those people who are desprately "down and out" get a cot,MRE’s,water,communal bath facilities and (…)