Emergency housing drive at www.hurricanehousing.org (Pass it on)

Received in my email:Dear MoveOn member,Hurricane Katrina's toll on communities, homes and lives has devastated the nation. Now victims must face the daunting question of where to go next—and we can help.Tens...

FEMA: Web site open for companies to give Katrina victims relief

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a Web site for companies that can offer goods and services like food, water or shelter for hurricane victims.Company officials can visit...

About Donating Goods to the Red Cross for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 -- When a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina strikes and the news broadcasts images of broken, battered and destroyed homes, it is natural for the public to be eager to help...

Citizens and Experts Discuss Honest Elections at Black Box Voting Forums

A week of special guests meeting on-line where all can watch and anyone can register to ask questions and participate. Topics include paper ballots, real recounts, proportional representation, being a voting...

Why Everybody Is a Reporter

Paul Chenoweth never leaves home without his digital camera or video camera. A graduate student at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., he shoots video and photos around town and posts them to his...

Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” Returns to the Internet

After an Arduous Journey, the Historic Document About U.S.-Sponsored Narco-Trafficking Finds a New Home  Powerful series on the CIA's facilitator role in bringing cocaine to the U.S. to fund an illegal war will not be suppressed. Special to The Narco News...

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The School Lunch Lobby by RON HASKINS - Education Next - Summer 2005

Kids may not like the peas and carrots served up by the nation’s school lunch program, but many of the country’s leading food companies enjoy the billions of dollars in sales that bring those vegetables to their plates. Behind the overcooked vegetables and steam-table...

Antibiotics Used by the Ton in Animal Feed Every Year

According to a report released yesterday, 25.6 million pounds of antibiotics are mixed with farm animals’ food every year -- almost all of it concentrated in just 23 states, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics used in the US...

The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces

JE McNeil, who heads the Centre for Conscience and War in Washington DC, a Christian group whose members also staff the GI Rights Hotline, said many troops she spoke with had been lied to by recruiters. "I had an 18-year-old who was told he did not have to serve in...

Red Sox Again Beat A's on Walk-Off Homer - Yahoo! News

BOSTON - Jason Varitek's ninth-inning homer allowed the Boston Red Sox to walk off as last-swing winners for the second straight day. His two-run shot down the right field line with one out against Octavio Dotel on Wednesday gave Boston a 6-5 victory over the Oakland...

Hospital Laundry Workers Set to Strike Over Safety, Pay, Benefits

Workers at the nation's largest health care laundry service are set to strike Thursday to protest unsanitary and unsafe working conditions, low pay and "paltry medical benefits." The union,...

Oakland Mayor joins blogosphere

Oakland, California Mayor Jerry Brown has joined the blogosphere this week, with the first post slamning critics of Oakland’s 10pm curfew for criminals on parole. “These zealots can’t accept the fact that strategic police work is saving lives in our city,'’ Brown...

Storms Batter Calif. for 4th Straight Day

More rain on Monday doused Southern California, where a toddler drowned after being wrenched from her mother's grasp by a raging flood, a homeless man was killed by a landslide and a man was carried two miles down a swollen river before being rescued.

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