San Ramon, California – On May 27, the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity joined a delegation of concerned activists and community leaders at Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting. Delegates exposed Chevron’s human rights abuses and environmental damages to investors, and demanded the oil giant address its human rights and environmental responsibilities.FACES advisor Christine Cordero represented the Philippines as a proxy shareholder, with community leaders and allies of Chevron-affected communities in Nigeria, Ecuador, Richmond,...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Checktheweather Live at Malcolm X Day Fest in DC
What are you doing this Saturday? Just chilling out drinking a cool glass of lemonade? Well if you are in DC then you should join Rev.Yearwood of Hip Hop Caucus, Jerome Ringo, checktheweather founder, Kari Fulton and many more at the Malcolm X Day fest at Oxon Run Park. The event features live music, vendors, giveaways, yummy food vendors, face painting and more. The theme of this year's event is "From the Root to the Fruit" and will feature speakers...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Help! FEMA Plans to Evict Folk in Gulf Coast From Trailers on May 30th!
This was sent by our good friends at The Katrina Information Network! FEMA is at it again and we need your help. The agency has announced that on May 30, 2009, it will act to evict thousands of residents from FEMA trailers in the Gulf States in spite of the fact that these residents have had limited support and lots of barriers in their efforts to find permanent housing. Please act now to stop this travesty.Mr. Ernest Hammond is a case in point....
Dead Prez and Government All Agree: Time to Eat Healthy!
Be Healthy - Dead PrezToday Congressional Representative Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)introduced a new bill that would improve United States Food Regulations. The Washington Post reports that the bill "would give the Food and Drug Administration broad new enforcement tools, including the authority to recall tainted food, the ability to "quarantine" suspect food, and the power...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Obama nominates 1st Latina to the Supreme Court!
2009 is starting out to be a good year for leadership of color. First Obama is officially signed into office then we get great new leadership on the Obama Administration such as First African-American Head of EPA Lisa Jackson, First African-American Attorney General, Eric Holder, and now first Latina nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor was raised in the projects of the South Bronx and went on to graduate Summa Cum...
Nancy Pelosi calls for China and US to work together on Climate Change
Is Climate Change a definite game changer when it comes to international politics? In the words of the infamous Sarah Palin, "you betcha". Although Palin is still on the fence on whether climate change is real or God just hugging us a little closer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is ready to take some action. She is in Beijing China today and addressed a meeting organized by the American Chamber of Commerce"China and the United States can and must confront the challenge of climate change together....I think that this climate change crisis is...
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