U.S.
Corporate profiteering at heart of foreclosure crisis
July 29, 2009Maximizing corporate profits remains as a driving factor in the housing crisis according to Congressional testimony and news reports today. Testifying before Congress on the foreclosure crisis, Keith S. Ernst, of the Center for Responsible Lending,...
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Capitol Hill swamped with calls for health care public option
July 29, 2009Union members and other health care reform advocates bombarded Capitol Hill July 28 with phone calls demanding enactment of health care reform with a strong “public option.” The telephone calls came during a nationwide “call-in day...
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The ‘Skip’ Gates arrest: Racism is more than an attitude
July 29, 2009The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, not far from the racial profiling incident of Henry Louis Gates that triggered a national conversation on race and racism, and, being a bit...
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VIDEO Health care reform cannot wait
July 28, 2009Americans United for Change, a labor-backed coalition, and MoveOn.org are fighting Republican moves to scuttle health care reform with new TV commercials.
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150,000 South African workers walk out
July 28, 2009Original source: Johannesburg has been brought to a grinding halt with 10,000 local government workers marching to Mary Fitzgerald Square to reaffirm their union's demand for a 15 per cent wage increase and a housing subsidy....
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