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Social Security The Neediest Need Help Like the Banks Kolja Rudzio | The same state haggles over every bowl of soup for welfare recipients. For banks, billions appeared overnight. There must also be money for higher wages and more social services. When the bailout billions are due, the state must finance them through higher taxes or new debts. more... 1 Comments posted by F Espinoza | ... Fiscal paradises are prospering; people are suffering. Is this how humanity’s well-being can be guaranteed? more... 0 Comments FED BAILOUT, MORE OF THE SAME! THE WORKING PEOPLE NEED REAL, SOCIALIST CHANGE! Doug Cupertino | The Federal Reserve System bail-out of AIG means more of the same: more diversion of working people’s tax money to speculation and Wall Street profiteering and away from working people’s welfare. Fed takeover of AIG means more of the same Wall Street control and management. Time for putting working people’s welfare first, and real, socialist change. more... 0 Comments posted by F Espinoza | We had hardly recovered from the emotional impact and material damages caused by the unexpectedly strong winds of hurricane Gustav on the Isla de la Juventud and Pinar del Rio, when news were received of sea floods caused by Hanna. Then, the worst news of all: that the very intense hurricane Ike, turning southwest under pressure from a strong anti-hurricane system located north of its course, would strike heavily over 625 miles throughout the national territory. more... 0 Comments CUBA: Hurricane Watch issued for Eastern Cuba as Ike gets closer posted by F Espinoza | Cuba’s National Defense Staff declared the Alert stage (watch), today (6 sep) at four p.m., for the eastern provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, Las Tunas and Camaguey in the face of the possible track of hurricane Ike. more... 1 Comments Get Rid of Medicare Enrollment Penalties Peter Stern | Many newspapers recognize the absurdity that seniors are being forced to pay penalties for late enrollment under the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan; however, there is another similar and even larger issue no one seems to acknowledge or address. more... 0 Comments Cuba Solidarity- Henry Reeve Brigade- Hurricane Katrina and the official silence posted by F Espinoza | In August 2005, hurricane Katrina lashed the United States southeast and brought the sea over the poorest neighbourhoods of New Orleans... more... 0 Comments Welfare State and Inner Security Heinz Jurgen Dahme | The punitive side of welfare state reform is read as a success. From a welfare state perspective, problerms result because firstly there is not enough work and secondly those integrated in work can oftern hardly live from that. Massive exclusion and precariousness exist everywhere in Europe today. Workfare policy supplements supply-side policy with an activating political-social model by means of flexicurity. more... 0 Comments The record of henharming Henhawk Hillary
Factory Farm Abolitionist | Hillary as well as being on the board of WalMart was their attorney at Rose Law National Homeless Marathon Radio Show - 11th Annual: Feb 20 - 21
The Toxic Reverend | 11th Annual National Homeless Marathon Radio Show Presidential Outlook 2008: Frank Moore on a "Web Work Of Caring” C. Nicholl | "The guaranteed minimum income will be very different from welfare. Everyone will get it. So there will be no stigma attached to getting it. There will be no red tape, no entrapping rules, no case workers drained of their humanity, and the rest of the demeaning rituals of enforced head-bowing associated with getting public assistance. The guaranteed minimum income will be something you get as a citizen, something you can depend on." more... 0 Comments More MEDICARE Health Care Myths: "Prescription Drug Plan Good" Dr. Peter Stern | The Medicare Prescription Drug Plan: Is it working? more... 0 Comments Friday, 10/19: Julius Margolin Tribute Concert at 310 W. 43rd Street
George Mann | This concert and film event will be held to pay tribute to and celebrate Julius's life as an activist and unionist. Proceeds will go to a scholarship fund being set up to help bring young unionists to two annual labor/cultural festivals, the Great Labor Arts Exchange (where George Mann & Julius met in 1996!) and the Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival. Doors open and reception at 7 PM; concert at 8 PM. The "Dark Cloud" of Domestic Imperialism Hangs Over Our Soldiers: Eliminating, Peter Stern | Our Veterans deserve better than the Bush administration's neglect and budget cutting of their needs. more... 0 Comments Neocons in France! resistance and social unrest: news and views
wind of may | No Saucepan demos in each neighbourhoods and no “reclaim the streets with the kids, grandma and grandpa”. |
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