Today marks the anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. From SPLC: May 31 marks the 90th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot. You can be excused if you’ve never heard of it. Despite being the bloodiest attack on African-American citizens in U.S. history, the riot was almost completely ignored by most…
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Napa County takes care of its migrant workers with housing and support: “The effort was born of compassion and practicality. Without migrant labor, most of it from Mexico, the wine producers in Napa would be hard pressed to fill a carafe, much less the valley’s 9 million annual cases.” (9)
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A bill (A629A-2011) is pending in the NYS Legislature that provides that only the owner and holder of a mortgage and note, or its agent, shall have standing to commence a mortgage foreclosure action, thereby making standing as a defense unwaivable. The passage of this bill is essential as hundreds…
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On May 26, 2011, Guyana celebrated 45 years of independence from the British. Guyana, despite its virgin forests and land, is rife with government corruption, lack of accountability, deterioration of infrastructure, regressive politics, and mass emigration of skilled and educated workers. A contributor for Stabroek News, Guyana’s main paper, writes:…
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From EarthJustice: Earthjustice and the Environmental Justice Research Center at Clark Atlanta University have collaborated to compile data for coal-fired power plant pollution and the impacts on low income communities and communities of color for EPA Region IV, which includes Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and…
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According to the NYT, two suits out of Baltimore and Memphis survived their respective motions to dismiss brought by predatory lending bank Wells Fargo: Two lawsuits accusing Wells Fargo of discriminatory lending practices have been allowed to move forward, a victory for plaintiffs that have accused the bank of steering…
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An interesting, if not provocative, read from Foreign Policy in Focus, WorldBeat, Vol. 6, No. 19: [P]erhaps the only country in the world that has benefited from the last decade of war against al-Qaeda is China, and it has benefitted big time. Beijing has watched the United States spend more…
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Apparently, time, resources, and funds were deemed/considered necessary to substantiate the obvious: that there is a lack of diversity in the non-profit industrial complex. I am of two minds about such reports: on the one hand it is absolutely laughable that a written report is warranted to substantiate the obvious…
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