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Saturday November 01, 2008

Children of the Candy Corn

Los Angeles - Marina Del Rey doesn't normally see many Latinos on its streets after sundown, when gardeners, cooks and house cleaners finish their work and head home – sometimes to crummy apartments in central L.A.'s Pico Union neighborRead More >

Thursday October 30, 2008

ICE treats immigrants like criminals

SF Bay Area - Activists from several Bay Area groups helped organize an emergency-response rally in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in San Francisco on October 23 to protest a string of raids that took place throughout the Bay Area the day before.Read More >

Wednesday October 29, 2008

CJP Asks Chinatown Residents: Is the Waterfront Development a Trick or a Treat for Tenants and Small Businesses?

New York City - On Halloween, the Chinatown Justice Project held a creative action in Chinatown that highlighted how the City’s waterfront development plan for the East River will further the gentrification of the neighborhood and increase the pace of displacement of low-income tenants and small businesses.Read More >

Friday October 24, 2008

Immigration voter drive poised for big win

New York City - The end is coming. They can deny it until they turn blue in the face, but Republicans know that, after eight years, the marathon of disasters the Bush administration has put the country through is about to end. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for the McCain-Palin ticket.Read More >

Thursday October 23, 2008

A walking tour kicks off Seward Park renewal talks

New York City - In 1967, under a federal “slum-clearance” program, tenements housing 7,000 residents on a large swath of several blocks south of the Williamsburg Bridge approach were razed. As part of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area plan, low-income housing was promised to be built in return. But more than 30 years later, much of the area still lies vacant, occupied by a vast, open-air parking lot.Read More >

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Beware False Profits

Miami - Miami was where it started: the easy financing of endless high-priced condos without a clue of who would actually buy them. Ninety thousand of them were built on paper; bought, and traded in the Magic City before they were even completed.Read More >

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Oakland settles lawsuit against the Oakland Housing Authority

SF Bay Area - Around October 16, a settlement agreement was reached between the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) and the Oakland City Attorney's Office regarding a February 15, 2007 lawsuit, charging that 1,615 apartment units at 254 public housing sites were cited for code violations and unsafe living conditions. In the settlement,Read More >

Tuesday October 21, 2008

HIV Prevention, Treatment Hit by Local Funding Cuts

New York City - Numbers showing the city's AIDS epidemic rages on worse than thought arrived in tandem with state cuts for AIDS-fighting measures. In a climate with plenty of needs and ever fewer resources, this is the first in an ongoing series looking at reduced social services funding.Read More >

Thursday October 16, 2008

POWER Reaches Thousands of African American Voters in SF

SF Bay Area - POWER launched an unprecedented effort to increase voter turnout and engagement in one of the last remaining African American communities in San Francisco, where voter participation has historically been one of the lowest in the City.  We made phone calls and knocked on the doors of more than 15,000 residents in the commRead More >

Wednesday October 15, 2008

KIWA Comes Out!

Los Angeles - On Saturday, October 11th, after a joint voter outreach walk with SHEPMA (Silverlake Hollywood Echo Park Metropolitan Alliance) and SAN (South Asian Network), KIWA held a community lunch featuring speakers to commemorate National Coming Out Day and to celebrate LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) equality.Read More >

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