The National Low Income Housing Coalition joins housing advocates from Texas in applauding the decision by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject the plan submitted by the state of Texas on how the state would use Hurricane Ike disaster recovery funds. Read More |
Last week, when asked about Glenn Beck calling President Obama "racist," Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox News Channel's parent company (News Corp) said "if you actually assess what he was talking about, [Beck] was right." Plelase sign the ColorOfChange.org petition to help create a powerful conversation about Fox's race-baiting that will help hold the network, and its owner Murdoch, accountable. http://www.colorofchange.org/murdoch/?id=2042-693017 Read More |
This month, a vegetable fueled armored truck will begin a journey from New Orleans to Washington, DC, collecting a cumulative total of 300,000,000 "fundred" dollars -- currency designed by students, teachers, artists, and activists across the country. The fundreds will be offered to Congress for an even exchange of $300,000,000 to clean up New Orleans. You can participate: http://www.fundred.org. And if you are in NOLA, don't miss the big sendoff party November 6th! Click through for details! Read More |
Ms. Foundation grantees Raising Women's Voices and the Women of Color United for Health Reform continue to work collectively to mobilize women nationwide on behalf of health care reform and lift up women's support and solutions for change in Washington, D.C. and at rallies, town halls and on airwaves across the U.S. These two groups received support from the Ms. Foundation in August for a last-minute push to ensure the voices of women--especially low-income women and women of color--are amplified in the health care debate. Read More |
Show your support for the hundreds of thousands of Gulf Region residents who remain physically displaced from their communities more than 4 years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
As President Barack Obama made his first visit to New Orleans as President, over 50 Christian, Jewish, Muslim leaders urged him to make poverty and the environment priorities in his Administration.
In an open letter, they wrote: “Four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck and the levees were breached, the slow pace of recovery, persistent poverty, climate change and coastal land loss have created a moral crisis across the region that demands a powerful response from people of faith and our elected officials.”
August 29 marked the fourth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) has released a report on the first four years of the mainstream media's reporting post-Katrina about class, race, the environment, and the rebuilding efforts along the Gulf Coast -- and the report card doesn't look good.
Erasing Katrina: Four years on, media mostly neglect an ongoing disaster, Read on... Read More |
Did you know the richest 1% of Americans have more financial wealth than the bottom 95%? Filmmaker Michael Moore takes on this injustice – where a few profit off the misfortunes of the many – in his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story!, opening October 2nd.
Co-produced by Trouble the Water Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Capitalism: A Love Story! explores with humor and outrage the taboo question: What price does America pay for its capitalism? In many ways, Hurricane Katrina and the government's response showed us what that looks like ...
Be a Ms. Foundation Outrageous Activist—Commit Outrageous Acts for Simple Justice. Engage in, celebrate, and support acts in the cause of simple justice on behalf of women, families and communities: http://outrageousacts.org
The Ms. Foundation for Women challenged its outrageous activists to recruit members of the Ms. Foundation Outrageous Activists Cause on Facebook to recognize the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the DVD release of the Academy Award-nominated documentary TROUBLE THE WATER.
Here are the five winners of the DVD, and information about the top recruiter, Brenda Dardar Robichaux of Louisiana. Read More |
"Trouble the Water” isn't just about poverty, racism and political incompetence; it reflects the cannibalization of government by corporate-friendly policies that have left it hollow, incapable of serving the needs of all citizens. It’s a pay-to-play system (and no, taxes don’t count) where, as one woman in the film puts it, “If you don’t have money, if you don’t have status, you don’t have government.” --eZine Hello Cool World's Summer 2009 issue, brought to you by Hello Cool World and The Corporation. Read more @ http://ezine.hellocoolworld.com/index.cfm?issue_num=7 Read More |
