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Bush's Upcoming Policies Will Worsen Health Care Crisis, Hit Hardest Most Vulnerable In the State of the Union address tonight, Bush is expected to put forth a series of proposals aimed at addressing the nation’s ailing health care system. Critics contend that Bush’s proposals will ultimately discourage people from seeking the care they need. We hear from a Medicare recipient who testified at the recent Congressional briefing about difficulties she endured under the new drug prescription benefit program and speak with Families USA about Bush’s health insurance plan....
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:25am PST
ALERT - Stop the Budget Cuts! A vote is possible February 1. Call your representatives toll free and oppose the budget reconciliation bill 1-800-393-1082...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 5:52am PST
BTL:Airborne Toxic Sediment Endangers New Orleans Residents Interview with Wilma Subra, a McArthur award-winning environmental chemist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 4:56am PST
An AIM Activist's View of Jack Abramoff Historically racism has characterized and justified unscrupulous behavior toward Native Americans. This attitude has kept us in poverty and ill health since the inception of the reservation system....
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 10:52am PST
White House stonewalls official Hurricane Katrina inquiry The Bush administration is withholding information relevant to a Senate committee investigating federal management of Hurricane Katrina. Invoking executive privilege, the administration has also refused to allow sworn testimony from senior White House officials on the disaster and governmental response....
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 8:38am PST
BTL:Income Inequality in America Deepening Interview with Felice Yeskel, author of the book "Economic Apartheid in America," conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 5:42am PST
Racial Tensions Surface Among Los Angeles Homeless LOS ANGELES – Kimberly Johnson doesn’t like to go outside. She'd prefer her four children don’t even go downstairs.
For seven months now, Johnson and her family have been living at the Union Rescue Mission on downtown's Skid Row, where danger is a constant companion. Their dorm room sits four floors up, and many days they remain there, even isolating themselves above the common areas below....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:07pm PST
US: New Medicare plan triggers health crisis for thousands The debut of the new Medicare drug plan has been a disaster for tens of thousands of seniors and other eligible participants. Starting from the first week of its implementation on January 1, the program was so riddled by confusion and incompetence that more than two dozen states were forced to take emergency action to pay for prescription drugs that people were not able to obtain by using the plan. Low-income beneficiaries were often overcharged or arrived at pharmacies to discover their old ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:43am PST
WED, FEB 1: Finding Our Folk -- Oakland Send-off Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:19pm PST
Bankrupt peacekeeping mission leaves Darfur civilians exposed The humanitarian crisis in Darfur is likely to worsen after the future of the African Union's peacekeeping mission was cast into doubt. News that Khartoum is poised to take over the presidency of the AU has been greeted with dismay as government-backed militias in Darfur had been accused of genocide....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:10pm PST
Happy Pills Don't Make Me Happy A young woman who's taken dozens of powerful prescription medicines says Americans must learn to stop popping pills....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:03pm PST
Supreme Court Ruling A Defining Moment for Aid-in-dying Laws Compassion & Choices hails today's Supreme Court decision as a defining moment for
the choice in dying movement....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:19am PST
From the Ground Up: Race and the Left Response to Katrina “For a lot of people, people of color from New Orleans and the south, we’re all trying to put our lives together. If we had the means, if we had the same privilege, we would be here too, we would be organizing and fighting for our community. It’s important for people to realize the privilege they have and others don’t have.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:41am PST
US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend Millions of Americans saw their living conditions drastically decline in 2005. For the US working class, four years of a supposed economic recovery celebrated by Wall Street have translated into rising expenses, stagnating real wages and record debt....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:57am PST
Kashmir earthquake survivors abandoned to freezing winter freezing wi Three months after the October 8 Kashmir earthquake, many thousands of survivors are living in tents and face the danger of freezing to death as the Himalayan winter worsens. Severe cold waves have been reported from the quake-affected areas, with nighttime temperatures falling well below zero degrees Celsius, and heavy snows have fallen. Minus-2 degrees has been recorded in Muzaffarabad, the capital of the worst hit Pakistani province of Kashmir and minus-13 degrees in mountain villages wher...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:56am PST
City residents denounce “Bring New Orleans Back” rebuilding plan New Orleans residents reacted with anger and defiance Wednesday to a proposed rebuilding plan for the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina more than four months ago. The “Bring New Orleans Back” Commission, created by Mayor Ray Nagin, unveiled the plan at a standing-room-only meeting attended by hundreds of residents. The audience was too large for the meeting room and spilled out into the corridors of the Sheraton Hotel where it was held....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:57pm PST
'Fire on the Bayou': African American leaders converge on New Orleans African American leaders from all over the United States and from as far away as Canada are meeting for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century-sponsored Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend Initiative, entitled "The Struggle Against Racism and Inequality in New Orleans: National Days of Return and Action," set for Jan. 12-14 in the beleaguered Crescent City....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:23am PST
Rebuilding New Orleans: The Struggle Continues We look at the the ongoing struggles around rebuilding New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. We speak with Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and a former mayor of New Orleans and Tracie Washington, an attorney representing a number of evacuees in New Orleans who are staying in hotels and are facing eviction....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:10am PST
About the french riots, october-november 2005 (audio/mpeg 6.3MB) All of the people “ on top ” ...talking down to the youth rebellion have one word, and one thing to propose : integration. Integration into what ? To this shitty society which is built, precisely, on keeping the poor out when they are no longer of any use on the labor market,.... Capitalism has always needed the poor and ghettos..... ...A lot of good souls think that our suburban “ rascals ” are ambiguous, that their values are dubious, their violence undirected, etc....they aren’t revolution...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:03am PST
Mine safety cuts hindered West Virginia rescue Just as families in several West Virginia mining communities began burying the 12 miners killed in last Monday’s explosion at the Sago Mine, evidence is mounting that many of the men might have been saved if rescue efforts had not been delayed due to a shortage of manpower and the lack of the modern rescue equipment. Years of budget cuts at the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) have severely undermined the capacity of rescuers to promptly reach trapped miners, although a matter of ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:25am PST
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