Poverty

VIDEO: Poverty-Stricken Spanish Raid Store For School Supplies

September 1, 2013 Staff, www.euronews.com Create! Education, Government, Poverty, Video

Unemployment is at 35.8 percent in Andalusia, some 10 percent above the national average. An estimated four million people live in poverty, and 400,000 families have no-one in work and are not in receipt of any benefits. “The school year is about to begin and many parents have no money for school supplies. This a protest against the regional and national governments,” said Diego Canamero, from the Union of Andalusian Workers. One hundred trolley loads were stolen for distribution to the poorest families, and the media was alerted to be on hand when the action was explained to the angry supermarket manager, and the police, who arrived later.

Dail Lockout: Irish Say “No” To Austerity On September 18

August 31, 2013 Staff, www.directdemocracyireland.ie Organize! Austerity, Government, Ireland, Poverty

In response to the complete lack of lack of respect for the Irish people, all the broken political promises, and the utter failure to represent the interests of the Irish people, the people have begun to take matters into their own hands to demand members of the Oiréachtas honour the wishes of those who employ them.. Hence, there will be a peaceful LOCK OUT on SEPTEMBER 18TH outside DAIL EIREANN (both gates). The goal is to remind all TDs and Senators that they are there to do as WE THE PEOPLE of Ireland demand, and not bow down to vested corporate, banking and European interests. The LOCK OUT has been proceeded by letters of warning, telling TDs that they are not required to work on that one day, because we the people are aware that they are not working for US. This is an opportunity for TDs and Senators to show who they stand with and on which side of history they wish to fall.

Welfare Reform Insanity: Banning Convicted Drug Offenders From Food Stamps

August 31, 2013 Sheila Bapat, www.alternet.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty, Women's Rights

Well before the current, direct attack on federal funding of food stamps—also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—there have been systemic, state-imposed barriers to accessing food stamps that have been in place for nearly two decades. Several states require fingerprinting of recipients and reams of paperwork, or are stalled by outdated technology. The Los Angeles Times recently reported on the onerous barriers food stamp recipients face in California. But the ban barring drug convicts from accessing food stamps is one of the most problematic state-imposed barriers faced by poor people like Sutherland. Twelve states still ban convicted drug offenders from accessing SNAP benefits. A relic of welfare reform, the food stamp ban is an example of the political interplay between the drug war and the movement to reform welfare which in reality became a double indictment of the poor: People of financial means who made mistakes with drugs would not be rendered vulnerable to hunger for the rest of their lives.

I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision

August 30, 2013 Michael Parenti, www.dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty, Racism, Video, Wars and Militarism

The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention given to King’s extraordinary speech, the less we seem to know about King himself, the less aware we are about the serious challenges he was presenting, challenges that remain urgent and ignored to this very day. The opinion-makers prefer to treat Martin Luther King as an inspirational icon rather than a radical leader. He has been domesticated and sanitized. Today the real King probably would not be invited to the White House because he is too far left, too much the agitator. In 1967, he was becoming an increasingly serious problem for the defenders of privilege and profit. King came out against the Vietnam War that year, a fact that is seldom mentioned today.

50th Anniversary Of ‘Farce On Washington’

August 29, 2013 Kymone Freeman, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Government, Poverty, Racism, Wars and Militarism

Too many bourgeois Blacks make the near blasphemous claim that their success is an example of the proof of the fulfillment of MLK's "Dream" and passionately defend all things Obama. Nothing could be further from the truth and only serves to further discredit and dishonor King’s legacy of speaking truth to power. Take the fact that today a minimum wage worker at Taco Bell would have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 467 years to make as much as the CEO makes in 1 year. So the day after the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington the largest fast food worker strike ever in the US has organized a work stoppage while President Obama is preparing to go to war with Syria.

Tomorrow: Fast Food Workers Prepare To Strike “For Our Dignity”

August 28, 2013 Carl Gibson, www.occupy.com Organize! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

On Thursday, August 29, thousands of fast food and low-wage workers in approximately 50 US cities are walking off the job in a massive one-day strike to protest low wages at very profitable companies. The fast food industry makes $200 billion in profits each year. McDonalds CEO Don Thompson saw his salary triple from $4.1 million to $13.8 million just between 2011 and 2013. In the meantime, the federal minimum wage of $7.25 hasn’t been raised in almost a decade. If the minimum wage kept up with inflation since the 1960s, it would be over $11 an hour. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out further that if the minimum wage had kept up with worker productivity in that same period, it would be over $22 an hour today.

Churches Threatened With Arrest For Feeding The Homeless

August 27, 2013 Hugh Hollowell, www.s3.amazonaws.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, Police abuse, Poverty

This morning we showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years. We provide, without cost or obligation, hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to anyone who wants one. We keep this promise to our community in cooperation with five different large suburban churches that help us with manpower and funding. Today officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our work, for the first time ever. An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested.

Tear Down The Walls Gathering

August 24, 2013 Staff, www.afgj.org Organize! Human Rights, Immigration, Poverty, Racism

You are invited to join the Alliance for Global Justice this fall to strategize and network together to build a more unified movement for transformational change in the US. We are challenging activist groups to work together, and build wokshops and People's Power Assemblies which are designed to transcend our individual issues areas, and encourage collaboration amongst activists. There are so many Walls to Tear Down... Walls of Homophobia, Racism, Militarized Border Walls, Wall Street, Walls to Citizenship, Housing, Education, Walls of Inequality and the Walls between us, which weaken our collective movement.

Remember March on Washington Was For Jobs And Freedom

August 24, 2013 Jeff Roquen, www.hnn.us Educate! Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

One year before his assassination in 1968, King visited the small town of Waycross, Georgia and asked his audience, “And you know why we aren’t free?” He then answered his own question. “Because we are poor. Poverty is not having enough money to make ends meet. Poverty is being unemployed. Poverty is being underemployed. Poverty is working on a full-time job, getting only a part-time income.” In marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, we need to remember the full equation of the civil rights marchers and seek the change necessary to complete the American dream.

The Psychology Of Poverty

August 18, 2013 Staff, www.bestmswprograms.com Educate! Health Care, Poverty, Racism

The Psychology of Poverty and its impact on mental health in America. Poverty level has an impact on the mental health status of all Americans. Those living below the poverty line are three times more likely to have serious psychological distress as compared to those living above the poverty level. 51.4: percentage of Americans who will live in poverty at some point in their life before age 65. 1 in 8: number of people in the United States living below the poverty line. 1 in 4: number of African Americans living below federal poverty line.

Chicago Public Schools Demolishes Whittier Center Despite Community Protests

August 17, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistsance.org Resist! Education, Poverty

The Whittier Elementary School fieldhouse, the scene of a much publicized sit-in in 2010, was demolished Saturday after crews surprised a class of dance students and ordered them out of the building Friday night. Activists, some of whom participated in the sit-in that kept the building from being turned into a soccer field for a private school, kept a vigil in front of the building from 6 p.m. until it was torn down. The marched around the neighborhood before returning to the site of the building. They complained Chicago Public Schools, which owns the building, gave no prior notice of the plans to raze it. Activists thought they had won a reprieve last night, when CPS agreed to meet with them this morning. Ald. Danny Solis (25th) said last night on his Facebook page he would attend the meeting, as well. But that meeting never happened.

March On Washington: A Democratic Party Pep Rally

August 16, 2013 Paul LeBlanc and Michael Yates, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Racism, Worker Rights and Jobs

The March on Washington to commemorate the 1963 march is nothing like that march; it looks like a Democratic Party pep rally, not a protest demanding jobs and justice. The organizers are inviting the people who have failed to solve the jobs crisis, allowed injustice to flourish and helped create the wealth divide -- merely because they are Democrats, e.g. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi -- even one of the biggest corporatists in Congress, Steny Hoyer. This has nothing to do with the famed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. event, except a common date. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on partisanship: "I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either."

Domestic Worker Labor Leader: Federal Victory in Sight

August 15, 2013 Josh Eidelson, www.thenation.com Organize! Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

A key leader in the movement to raise labor standards for domestic workers expects a long-awaited federal rule change to soon become law. Ai-Jen Poo, who founded and directs the National Domestic Workers Alliance, told The Nation in an interview last week that the new regulations would be “one of the most significant victories for low-wage workers of this administration.” Citing supportive comments by Vice President Joe Biden at a June event celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the confirmation of a new secretary of labor in July, Poo said she hopes to see the process completed this month.

Lobbyist Secretly Wrote House Dems’ Letter

August 14, 2013 Erika Eichelberger, www.motherjones.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty

A letter that a group of progressive Democrats sent to federal regulators opposing new protections for millions of Americans' retirement accounts was drafted by a financial-industry lobbyist, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. The Department of Labor, which oversees the federal law setting minimum standards for many retirement plans, would like to require retirement investment advisers to act in the best interest of their customers, as opposed to their own best interest. But 28 out of the 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)—a group of African American members of Congress that advocates the interests of low-income people and minorities—signed onto a June 14 letter opposing the rule.

America’s Disappeared

August 13, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truth-out.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights, Police abuse, Poverty, Racism

"In America, when you are poor, you can instantly disappear like this into the subterranean rabbit holes of our vast jail and prison complex. You crawl out weeks, months or years later. You try to pick up where you left off. You avoid the cops. You look for work. There is no work. It is a constant cat-and-mouse game the state plays with the poor. The hunters. The hunted. The poor, no matter what they do, are always potential prey, minnows in a sea of sharks."

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