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October 17, 2002
Community Thurs. 10-17
Roundup of Community stories, Oct. 17, 2002
Hitting the grassroots, the ACLU has launched a $3.5 million television and grassroots campaign, "Safe and Free", to overturn the Patriot Act's assaults on civil liberties. Take action to end violations of attorney-client privilege through prison evesdropping and opposing neighborhood snitching.
ACORN and other activists won some major victories against predatory lending this week. State Attorneys General won a $484 million settlement from lender Household Finance and Beneficial. Following the New York City council's passage of a predatory lending bill, NY Governor Pataki signed a state version of the law.
On the living wage front, ACORN worked with a local coalition in Broward County to push passage of a law requiring that businesses doing more than $100,000 in business with the County annually pay their employees at least $9.57 per hour, plus another $1.25 if not provided with health insurance.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition released a new report Rental Housing for America's Poor Families: Farther Out of Reach Than Ever. With detailed analysis, it shows "the gap between wages and rents has continued to broaden and deepen" throughout the last decade.
People for the American Way is mobilizing to stop the promotion of a general who presided over a base rife with anti-gay harassment and did little or nothing to correct the situation either before or after the brutal on-base murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell.
Posted by Nathan at October 17, 2002 11:01 PM
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