Foreclosure Crisis: Homeowners Take On Banksters In California
In California, which is one of the epicenters of the foreclosure epidemic with Nevada, Arizona and Florida, an activist group is organizing struggling homeowners in their desperate fight to keep a roof above their heads. The Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment has just launched two days ago the Home Defenders League. The goal of […]
Gas Pipe Killer Inferno: A Symbol Of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
Last Thursday, in San Bruno California, at about 6:15 PM a 30-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline, belonging to the private utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ruptured. The pipe rupture created a firestorm that killed at least four people, left scored injured, completely destroyed 37 homes and badly damaged 8 others. This tragedy […]
Photographs: Remembering 9/11 In Malibu California
Pepperdine University’s sign above says: “Welcome Visitors, Pepperdine University is proud to honor the memory of the innocent men and women who lost their lives in the tragic attacks on the United States on 9/11/2001 in New-York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon. This exhibit displays one flag for each victim of the attacks, including the […]
Beyond Katrina: Exposing America’s Broken Social System
Five years after Katrina, the Gulf Coast and New-Orleans have to deal with another large scale disaster ( in this case purely man-made) in the form of the BP oil spill. It seems that New-Orleans can not get a break, but again the Crescent City is far from being the only town at the epicenter […]
Judge Walker Rules: Same-Sex Marriage Allowed, But Not Yet.
Same-sex marriage will be allowed once again… but not for six days. On August 18, 2010, at 5pm PST, same sex marriages will be allowed to resume in California. In the meantime, the legal wrangling will continue.
