From Take Back the Land: 82 year old Mary Lee Ward was lured into a predatory loan 16 years ago. The company that gave her the loan was investigated for predatory practices and intentionally preying on older Black women with property, has since gone out of business and only gave…
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Elections Canada wants to test online voting. From CBC News: The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it’s time to modernize Canada’s elections, including testing online voting and ending a ban on publishing early election results. In a report on the May 2 election, released Wednesday,…
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From the NY Times: The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed on such interviews. The investigation…
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A new study finds that black women have lost more jobs than black men since the recession began in December 2007, notwithstanding the fact that most black women are the heads of family households, thereby making black women even more economically vulnerable. From Crains New York: While the recession hit…
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The ACLU and Lawyers’s Committee for civil rights filed a class action suit against DHS and ICE for their blanket policy of shackling detainees, all of whom appear in immigration court shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles, regardless of history or risk of danger. From Lawyers Committee for Civil…
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While millions continue to suffer economic hardship in the U.S. — not to mention all those suffering from disease and famine in the Horn of Africa — billionaires spend millions investing in the possibility of nation-building in international waters. These floating “petri dishes” will no doubt facilitate tax evasion for…
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As the 2012 presidential election campaign heats up, expect more violent rhetoric from the Republican party. The GOP continues to thrash about like a wounded animal as it refuses to come to grips with the fact that there is a black man in the “White” House; and the fact that…
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Several unions are vowing not to take part in the democratic national convention: Casting North Carolina as an anti-union bastion with “regressive policies aimed at diluting the power of workers,” more than a dozen trade unions affiliated with the national AFL-CIO have told the Democratic National Committee that they will…
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