Activists: Official Suppression of Peer Advocacy Worsens TB, Flu (tags)
Tuberculosis and influenza spreading in Southern California houseless blamed on official disruption of peer education in cough hygiene.Advocating for information that will allow shelter operators to contact persons who may have been exposed to infections.
DONT ban, SAVE plastic bagees please ! (tags)
LA City is being lobbied to Ban our useful plastic bags for secret reasons not stated. Public meetings are barely made available to comment, pro or con. We are being hoodwinked by paid consultants and those who have unrevealed gains by pushing us into paying MORE for our recycled-daily-use-plastic-bags. Stop the secrecy and the manipulation of the People of LA now !
Haiti's Cholera Outbreak: A Disease of Poverty (tags)
America bears much of the responsibility
Misery and Despair Plague Haitians (tags)
endless Haitian misery
Life in Occupied East Jerusalem (tags)
Israel's repressive occupation
Memphis 1968: We remember (tags)
An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers.
World Bank handwashing initiative: Selling soap or saving lives? (tags)
The World Bank's Handwashing Initiative is based on the conviction that the simple practice of washing hands with soap could reduce deaths from diarrhoea by half. But its intentions are being questioned in Kerala, where people say they need safe drinking water, not multinational soap