December 9, 2009 -
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media The bad news is that the more than one out of three young blacks out ofwork matches the figure for joblessness at the peak of the 1930s GreatDepression. The worse news is that the jobless figure for young blacks,especially young black males, is not much different from what it waseven before the economic meltdown. During the Clinton era economicboom, the unemployment rate for young black males was double -- and in
December 9, 2009 -
Attendees of the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen will get a chance to watch a new Google video about the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia and to build a wind farm there instead. The environmental advocates at iLoveMountains.org are asking people to watch the video -- which uses innovative new Google Earth technology -- and send it along to friends and family.
December 8, 2009 -
In yesterday's televised announcement of the landmark Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases threaten health and the environment and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Administrator Lisa Jackson remarked that more has been done to tackle the problem of global warming in the past 11 months than was done over the last eight years.
December 7, 2009 -
An Associated Press story from yesterday gives props to the grassroots movement against mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive form of mining that involves blowing up Appalachian peaks to get to the coal below.