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Sun, Wind or Coal:
Will L.A. Ever be Green?
SCOPE
March 30, 2011

CALIFORNIA – A panel of experts weighs in on the feasibility of the L.A. mayor’s pledge to rid the city of coal-burning power by 2020.

Win for Fair Housing:
Racist Rules Will Cost
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
March 29, 2011

LOUSIANA– Creative exclusion lands a New Orleans parish in big trouble with the federal government.

Wage Theft Activists
Gaining New Ground
Interfaith Worker Justice
March 29, 2011

ILLINOIS – Wage theft, what one activist calls “the crime wave nobody talks about,” is gaining new attention, and punishment, in several states.

Police Decry ICE,
Want ‘Smart’ Enforcement
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
March 28, 2011

ILLINOIS – An Illinois bill would allow counties to opt out of a federal program that lets police check the immigration status of anyone booked for any reason.

Activist Says Tickets
Are Gentrification Tool
Los Angeles Community Action Network
March 24, 2011

CALIFORNIA – A longtime advocate for the poor sees the LAPD’s “crosswalk violation” strategy as a thinly veiled attempt to clear downtown of “undesirable people.”

Wal-Mart Multiplies,
Adding Smaller Stores
Grassroots Collaborative
March 23, 2011

ILLINOIS – The Wal-Mart superstore finds footing in urban neighborhoods through new mini-markets, several of which are slated to open in Chicago neighborhoods.

WA Kids Worth $80M
in Federal Health Funds
Children’s Alliance
March 22, 2011

WASHINGTON – The Children’s Alliance, a Washington advocacy group, crunched numbers and found that the Governor’s estimate for federal funding of children’s health care was way off the mark.

Dealing with Cops
On LA’s Skid Row
Los Angeles Community Action Network
March 22, 2011

CALIFORNIA – On Skid Row, which harbors more homeless than any other neighborhood in America, a deal’s a deal – except perhaps when made with the police.

Blindness, Bleeding Ears
Tied to BP Gulf Spill
Louisiana Environmental Action Network
March 22, 2011

LOUISIANA – A doctor reports some of his patients who worked clean-up for the BP oil spill are suffering severe medical ailments.

Asian Groups Join
to Drive Citizenship
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
March 19, 2011

CALIFORNIA – To strengthen a naturalization campaign, Asian community groups across California are taking their cues from the successful “Ya Es Hora” citizenship campaign that linked community groups with ethnic media.

Pennies for Farmworkers?
No Way, Says Publix
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
March 15, 2011

FLORIDA – While McDonald’s Taco Bell and Whole Foods have agreed to pay growers a penny more per pound of tomatoes, the largest grocer in Florida, Publix, defends its refusal to sign on.

12,000 Kids Will
Get a ‘Free Ride’
People Organized to Win Employment Rights
March 15, 2011

CALIFORNIA – A new San Francisco program offers transportation help for families hit hardest by the recession.

Flipping Foreclosures,
Helping Families
Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Albany Park
Neighborhood Council, Southwest Organizing Project
March 14, 2011

ILLINOIS – By working in schools and going door-to-door, a small community group in Chicago is having an outsized impact on everything from foreclosure prevention to immigration rights.

Tough Immigration Laws
Just a Lot of Hype?
Somos Un Pueblo Unido & OneAmerica
March 13, 2011

WASHINGTON & NEW MEXICO– Despite many campaign-season vows for stricter bills against undocumented immigrants, few have materialized into law.

We’ve Got the Cash;
Make Chicago Affordable
Action Now
March 8, 2011

ILLINOIS – A coalition of advocacy groups is pushing Chicago to set aside 20 percent of tax increment financing for affordable housing.

From ‘Communist China,’
Learning to be American
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
March 7, 2011

CALIFORNIA – Six Asian immigrants discuss the limitations of language and the ways a community group, Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, helped them navigate life in America.

Housing Group Slams
Neighborhood for Racism
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
March 7, 2011

LOUISIANA – New Orleans’s St. Bernard Parish, accused of illegally barring residents of color, is locked in a legal battle with the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, which fights discrimination.

Employment Agency with
a Heart (and Jobs)
Chicanos Por La Causa
March 3, 2011

ARIZONA – A community development group known for aiding low-income families, has added employment services to its roster of programs.

Pre-K Programs to be Cut
Despite Positive Results
Southern Education Foundation
March 1, 2011

GEORGIA – A recent report from the Southern Education Foundation finds that early-childhood education helps prevent children from repeating grades – thus saving Georgia millions of dollars a year.

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