Fair housing groups document spike in housing complaints
More than 40 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, housing discrimination continues to be a problem, according to the National Fair Housing Alliance's (NFHA) annual report on fair housing enforcement.
Coalition hails budget win as 'down payment'
The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) and other defenders of low and middle income people greeted Congress’ passage of a $3.44 trillion FY-2010 Budget Resolution with billions for healthcare, education and “green jobs.”
Wisconsin Library Board dismissals criticized
Last week, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression joined with the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Association of American Publishers, and PEN American Center to send a letter to the West Bend (Wisconsin) Common Council criticizing its dismissal of four members of the West Bend Library Board who refused to remove controversial books from the young adult section of the library.
May Day in Miami
May Day was reestablished in Miami Florida, with pizazz highlighted by a song sung by the Raging Grannies on Friday as over 300 people representing a broad coalition of labor and immigrant rights groups marched down Brickel Avenue in the heart of the city’s financial district. The lead banner read demanded “Bail Out People Not the Banks.” Other signs and banners declared, “Capitalism Sucks,” “Support the Employee Free Choice Act,” and “Legalization for Immigrants Now.”
Banks defeat Senate amendment to help struggling homeowners
Due to stiff opposition from the banking and mortgage industries, the Senate voted against passing (45-51) an amendment Thursday that would have given bankruptcy judges the ability to rework defaulted home mortgages on family homes to an affordable value.
Legalization is the X factor in immigrant rights
(WOMENSENEWS)- Thousands of activists are holding May Day demonstrations nationwide to highlight the rights and needs of the nation's more than 30 million immigrants, who now account for 1-in-8 people living in the United States.
KROMM REPORT: Will the Supreme Court kill the Voting Rights Act?
The case is Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District #1 v. Holder -- shortened to NAMUDNO -- and represents the most serious challenge to the act to date, and has become a lightning rod for debate over the role of race and racism in U.S. politics today.
Eleven talking points on 21st century socialism
The current discussion around socialism in left and progressive circles in the U.S. needs to be placed in a more substantive arena. This is an effort to do so. I take note in advance of the criticism that the following eleven working hypotheses are rather dry and formal. But in light of the faux ‘socialisms’ bandied about in the headlines and sound bytes of the mass media in the wake of the financial crisis, especially the absurd claim in the media of rightwing populism that the Obama administration is Marxist and socialist, I felt something a little more rigorous might be helpful. Obviously, criticism and commentary is invited.
Equality advocates review Obamas first 100 days
The Compact for Racial Justice Forum held a conference call April 28 with leaders of national social justice groups who discussed the highs and lows of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office.
American Idol concert tour starts in July
(Xinhua) The top 10 'American Idol' contestants know how they're spending their summer vacation: on a nationwide concert tour kicking off in July in Oregon. Tickets for the 50-city tour will go on sale May 9, tour organizers said.
