December 10th, 2008 by meghanquinn
In winter, homelessness becomes physically easier to imagine. The wind cuts into my coat as I hurry inside, and I get that feeling that I couldn’t bear to be out in the cold one more second.
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Loading ...January 5th, 2009 - 1:13 pm
In an Op-Ed piece for the NY Times called The End of the Financial World as We Know It, Michael Lewis and David Einhorn explore what checks and balances should have been in place to prevent the US financial markets from running themselves into the ground in search of perpetual short-term gain. (more…)
January 4th, 2009 - 2:12 am
To some of the people who know him back home in Texas, Brandon Darby is a traitor.
In his own mind, he’s proud of what he did — feeding the FBI information that led to the arrests of two men accused of trying to disrupt the Republican National Convention. (full story)
January 2nd, 2009 - 1:47 pm
Connecticut activist groups are coming together today to condemn the wave of intense violence in Gaza by the Israeli government. An unprecedented surge of military force in the region has left untold destruction and an estimated one hundred to three hundred civilians dead, depending on the news source. (more…)
December 31st, 2008 - 10:05 am
About 100 homeless people, including families with children, took over a Paris gymnasium Saturday, demanding “asylum” from the mayor amid a cold snap after several people died sleeping outside. (more at Int’l Herald Tribune…)
December 29th, 2008 - 5:17 pm
If Obama truly supports Israel’s massacre of the Palestinians, as his silence suggests, there should be no celebrating on Inauguration Day. (more…)
December 26th, 2008 - 12:38 pm
With just a couple weeks left to the Bush regime, largely seen as the worst in American history, the supposedly liberal New York Times ran this story today: “Expansion of Clinics Shapes Bush Legacy.” The author, Kevin Sack, makes it seem as though Bush’s legacy can be summed up by his doubling of federal funding for health centers that serve medically underserved areas. (more…)
December 24th, 2008 - 5:30 pm
Regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that threaten women’s access to contraception and comprehensive health care were released in their final version yesterday. [Dec. 18] (More at Feminist Majority)
December 23rd, 2008 - 12:31 am
December 18, 2008 - Equality Texas mourns the death of Jennifer Gale, a 47-year-old transgender homeless woman who died yesterday. Jennifer’s body was found Wednesday morning. She was lying in an outdoor walkway at the First English Lutheran Church in Central Austin. (more…)
December 22nd, 2008 - 11:43 am
Geoengineering — deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate — has long been a taboo subject in the climate debate, but that may be changing. (more…)
December 21st, 2008 - 10:57 am
A decent article that goes into the background of the conflict between President Kerry and the Academic Community of the school. Continued at NYT »
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