Thursday, June 15, 2006 One hundred and twenty detainees at an immigration removal centre in Oxford, UK, are on hunger strike. The protest started when some detainees refused breakfast on Wednesday 14th June 2006. A letter from the hunger strikers explaining why they are seeking to draw attention to their plight in this way has been reproduced in full below. […]
Mass evictions from Oakland’s public housing
Monday, May 15, 2006 Due to an Oakland housing official’s acts of fraud, 34 poor families face eviction from Lockwood Gardens, by order of the Oakland Housing Authority. Fear and panic have set in at some of East Oakland’s public housing units, as police agents from the Oakland Housing Authority have been making late-night visits to tenants, and demanding that […]
New York Times to start charging for access to web news
Friday, March 18, 2011 The challenge now is to put a price on our work without walling ourselves off from the global network … The New York Times announced on Thursday that it will start charging for full access to NYTimes.com, its online version. Beginning March 28, U.S. visitors who do not subscribe to the print edition will be allowed […]
The 5 Top Metals For Mens Wedding Bands
See More About: Custom Luxury Home Builders Adelaide Submitted by: Jacki Voelker As someone who sells men s wedding bands, I am often asked for suggestions on which metals are best, but it s hard to come up with an answer for that. Each person has a certain set of criteria that they use to determine which ring to buy. […]
Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101. Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States. Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond […]
United States to expand ‘information operations’ against terror
Sunday, February 19, 2006 The United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that U.S. public diplomacy efforts need to do more in the media to communicate a message friendly to democracy. “We’ll need to do all we can to attract supporters to our efforts and to correct the lies that are being told, which so damage our country, and […]