Racial Poverty Gaps in U.S. Amount to Human Rights Violation, Says U.N. Expert

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The Ultimate Weapon to Control the Masses: Privatized Water

Dirty water is the world's #1 killer! Will congressional action come close to overcoming profit-driven trends? Limiting access to clean drinking water can be used to make all other rights contingent on wealth or submission.

U.S. White Supremacy Kills More than Katrina

Unfortunately, the complicit U.S. media won't touch this. From Britian:

The racial health gap in the US kills more people every week that Hurricane Katrina, claims new research.

Inequalities between white and black Americans cause 84,000 extra fatalities each year – equating to the same weekly number of victims that perished in the hurricane, according to an editorial published in the British Medical Journal.

More info about this study at Eli's Captialism Kills at Left I On The News.

Buy Nothing Day (BND is Nov. 25th in the U.S.)

Help slow the blind consummerism that moves wealth and power upward to the ruling investor class: Give the gift of nothing! In the U.S., BND is Friday Nov. 25. Here's a couple of the many websites about BND: http://www.buynothingday.org/ and addbusters.org,

AFL-CIO Creates On-line Database of Corporate Negligence, Exploitiation and Violence against American Workers

At Working America's job tracker, you can "find out which companies in your area are exporting jobs, endangering workers' health or involved in cases of violations of workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The database contains information on more than 60,000 companies nationwide."

Cheney's Halliburton/KBR Using Slave Labor for Katrina Clean-up

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FEMA to Pull Plug and Leave Up to 53,000 Katrina Evacuees Homeless

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National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is November 13-19

Click here to find out how you can participate

The War on the Poor Hits the Middle Class

How much harder does it have to get? Dispatch from the Trenches would say a lot harder if Democratic politicians keep side-stepping the problem!

U.S. Senate Votes to Screw America

The Senate's slashing of food and education assistance has nothing to do with reducing the deficit and everything to do with tax breaks for the wealthy. Click here for Hunter's analysis and related links at Daily Kos.

Well protected by their fences and cops, the wealthy don't mind if insurance premiums, theft, robberies, and muggings escalate. But, will they mind if the sleeping giant awakens to make French toast in the U.S.? The answer may depend on the profitability of expanding secret U.S. gulags.