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Archive for August 20th, 2008

This is sad news.

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio has died.
Clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil says Tubbs Jones died at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function.
The 58-year-old Tubbs Jones [...]

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Call to Action – Katrina 3 Years Later

CALL TO ACTION

Commemorating the Third Anniversary of Katrina: August 29, 2008
Background
Though Hurricane Katrina passed through the Gulf Coast nearly three years ago, its impact, and more importantly, the impact of our government’s neglect of the human rights of people in the Gulf Coast are still felt acutely today.
Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents, primarily [...]

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