Article & short video about the migrants who traveled from Oklahoma to California, looking for any kind of work in the Great Depression. Listen to what people who lived through hard times have to say.

Ascension Health, the largest non-profit operator of hospitals in the US, posted a last-year profit of $351 million. But they closed Riverview Hospital on Detroit's poverty-stricken east side operated by their Detroit "health ministry."

Score a victory for North American computer potatoes. Adzilla provides internet snoop services to businesses & has folded its American operations. Adzilla will now pitch their services in Asia, "where there is a different view of privacy."

A look at how Americans of various ages are trying to cope with the economy and its effects on their lives.

"Restaveks" is the term for children of destitute Haitian families who are farmed out to the more affluent to act as servants & housekeepers in exchange for shelter, food & schooling. Activists, however, say these children are often treated as slaves.

The excuse for new "guidelines" allowing the EFF-BEE-EYE to pull all kinds of dirty tricks on unsuspecting innocents is "the guidelines are necessary to fulfill the FBI's core mission to predict threats and respond even before an attack takes place." HAH!

Sign this petition to the Prime Minister, HRDC Minister and the 12 Members of Parliament on the HUMA Committee currently studying the federal role in reducing poverty in Canada. (there was all-party agreement for this study). Summer is a good time to tell

2008 can be the year that both political parties make the struggle to end global poverty a policy priority. Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist will deliver your petition to the party platform committees when they meet with them, so don't miss the chance

Please sign our petition to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Use your voice to prevent needless child deaths.

Rebuilding Together, a national nonprofit that rehabilitates houses for low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly and those with disabilities, through another group that helps severely injured service members, the Wounded Warrior Project.