Tell the Senate to Give Homeowners a Bailout
While banks and mortgage lenders get bailed out, families across the country are increasingly facing the prospect of losing their homes. There's a new bill in Congress that would help: the Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act. It would enable struggling homeowners to renegotiate the terms of their loans and stay in their homes.
Local Events: Educate, Agitate, Mobilize
Local events in the Bay area in California, Tucson, Arizona, New York City and St. Louis, Missouri. Come ready to celebrate, learn, and to get agitated.
New OFAC Regulations on Travel to Cuba
On March 11, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) posted a new regulation, plus a guidance letter outlining how the provisions in the FY 09 omnibus spending bill would be implemented, as related to Cuban-American family travel and ag sales.
Tell CNN Report the Truth about Single-payer Healthcare
Fifteen years ago you sometimes heard – actually you heard quite a bit – people saying: 'Let's have a single-payer system like in Canada. The government is going to be the health insurer for everybody.' You don't hear that as much as you used to.
Stimulus Dollars Begin to Roll, GOP Govs. Block Recovery
The president's economic recovery package passed in mid-February, and many of its funds for job-creating projects and provisions are on their way to the states. Political motives on the part of some of the nation's governors, however, seem to be causing economic recovery to grind to a halt.
Women Applaud President's New Council to Promote Equality
Women's equality and health organizations celebrated the creation of a new White House Council on Women and Girls this week. With an executive order, President Obama created the office to prompt 'every government agency' to address 'the challenges confronted by women of all ages,' a White House press statement explained.
World Crisis Slams Mexico
Like every other country on the planet, Mexico is being hit hard by the world financial, banking and economic crisis. As in other relatively poor countries, the impact is shaping up to be especially hard on those who have already lost the most from the neo-liberal policy package of free trade, privatization and austerity.
A Day in the Life of a Social Arsonist
My job is to meet with people across Southern California and figure out what moves them, why they do what they do. There amidst the variations of a kitchen table, lazy couch, or occasional pristine Starbucks, I have found that unfortunately this thing of being moved is contagious.
House-building for Cuban Hurricane Victims Gains Speed
INAR DEL RIO, Cuba, March 11 (acn) Construction companies form western Pinar del Rio province, backed by the construction material industry, built 759 houses during January and February, including the replacement of 620 destroyed by the hurricanes that devastated this territory last year.
Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009
In the last few months, I have found myself uttering the words 'worst since the Great Depression' far too often: the worst twelve month job loss since the Great Depression; the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression; the worst rise in home foreclosures since the Great Depression.
