Tagged: 2008

December 17, 2008

  Salazar for Interior, Vilsack for Agriculture Chu for Energy, Jackson for EPA EU Passes Climate Legislation; Critics Warn of Biofuels Provisions Feds Failing to Reduce Foreclosures $50bn Pyramid Fallout Hits Nonprofits Politics of...

December 16, 2008

Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees Can Sue Over Torture Arne Duncan Tapped for Secretary of Education Latinos Seek Expansion of Hate Crimes Laws Prenatal Immigration Gay Rights in Kenya Download Audio HEADLINES Turkey’s air force...

December 15, 2008

Bush Flies to Iraq, Shoes Fly at Bush Leaked Inspector General Report Slams Iraqi Reconstruction State Unemployment  Funds Running Dry Fannie Mae Announces Halt to Foreclosure Evictions Tensions Growing Between India and Pakistan Financial...

December 12, 2008

Auto Industry Bailout Update Workers Vote to Unionize at Smithfield’s Tar Heel plant Bi-Partisan Committee Says Rumsfeld to Blame for Detainee Abuse Human Rights Week Series: New York’s Domestic Workers Human Rights Week Series:...

December 11, 2008

Bail Out Stalled in the Senate Obama Announces Health Care Team; Advocates Pleased Bush Midnight Regulations Spotlighted Chicago Workers See Victory; Re-evaluate Strike Tactics Africa Jones – Day Without A Gay Mothers of Plaza...

December 10, 2008

House Moves on Auto Industry Bailout Some Lawmakers Outraged Over Misuse of Financial Bailout Congress to Take Up EFCA Early Next Year Hearing May be Troy Davis’s Last Chance Human Rights Week Series: Canada’s...

December 9, 2008

Auto Industry Bailout May Come at the Expense of Green Cars Housing Rights Advocates Demand Mediation Fair Housing Commission Releases Report Ethiopia Increases Troop Presence in Somalia Democracy and Discontent in Bhutan Download Audio...

December 8, 2008

Workers Occupy Chicago Factory Dems Economic Infrastructure Proposals Autoworkers Ask Congress for Industry Bailout Experimental Cottonseed Enters Food Supply Indigenous Rights Want More of a Say in Climate Change Talks Human Rights Series: Violence...

December 5, 2008

Joblessness Hits New High Hybrid Advocates Weigh in on Auto Industry Bailout Activists Call for Ending Afghanistan Military Strategy Zimbabwe Faces National Health Emergency NOLA Activist Malik Rahim Runs for Congress Blackriders Say They...

December 4, 2008

Car Makers Plead for More Aid Activists Oppose Change in Mountaintop Removal Rule People’s Inauguration Ball Planned Judge Considers Early Release to Relieve California Prison Overcrowding Troubled India-Pakistan Relations Threaten Region Peace Talks Continue...