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Protesters gather at University of the District of Columbia to raise public outcry over diminishing public housing

March 20, 2019

Washington — At least 40 protesters from housing activist groups such as Empower DC, People for Fairness Coalition, National Coalition for the Homeless, and others gathered at the University Theater where the Mayor delivered her 2019 State of the District Address starting at 5:30pm. The demonstrators marched, chanted, and sang for nearly an hour despite the presence of police cars […]

Category: Gentrification, Human Rights, Politics, Poverty, Regional Tags: homelessness, housing first

Central American caravans linked to capitalism failing the poor

March 13, 2019

According to the Center for Migration Studies (CMS), violence and organized crime from the Northern Triangle of Central America is creating a crisis at the border. The countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, known as the Northern Triangle, or the Isthmus due to common cultural ties, are responsible for the largest flows in refugees. To solve the immigration problem, […]

Category: Climate change, Environment, Human Rights, International, Politics, Poverty Tags: community, drought, Food Sovereignty, human rights, human trafficking, immigration, social justice, Sustainability, world bank

Protests sparked by Trump Order on National Emergency

February 20, 2019

President’s Day is a peaceful day for family gatherings and commemorating our past U.S. Presidents. However this year there are over 230 President’s Day protests planned to fight President Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The National Emergencies Act is a codified federal law which provides the President emergency powers once such […]

Category: Asian American, Feature articles, Gentrification, Human Rights, National, News, Politics, Regional Tags: Asian-American, grassroots activism, immigration, race

Iran: 40 years since the shah, human ecology practical plan

February 10, 2019

Limited cultural freedom, western sanctions In February, Iran is celebrating its 40th anniversary since independence. For Iran, independence has been a mixed success. Between 1953 and 1978, it was effectively ruled by a sovereign monarch. The state is presently dominated by clerics beginning with Ruhollah Khomeini, a radical Muslim cleric, in 1979. While the clerics supported an Islamic Revolution, its […]

Category: Ecology, Environment, International, Near East, News, Politics, Technology, Water Supply Tags: climate change, drought, environment, Environmental Justice, fossil fuels, water supply, world bank

Shutdown part of growing assault on government solvency by conservatives

January 20, 2019

The 116th Congress convened in January 3, 2019, but so far there is little indication that the government shutdown is over. If anything, spending bills are continuing to be approved piecemeal. With funding for a few months at a time, negotiations are critical. On December 22, 2018, the U.S. government shutdown officially began due to failure in passage of a […]

Category: Elections, Human Rights, National, NATO, News, Politics, Poverty, Regional, Technology, Transportation Tags: climate change, corruption, exploitation, human rights, peace education, social justice

Government agencies hurt by Trump shutdown policy

January 10, 2019

WASHINGTON—Since the government shut down began a couple days before Christmas in December 2018, a segment of President Trump supporters have been rejoicing over the shutdown. This is because security contractors, such as Booz-Allen-Hamilton, who hold huge contracts funded by the Pentagon, are relatively immune. Workers at the Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and […]

Category: National, News, Politics, Regional Tags: corruption, housing first, mass transit

Maximum pressure on North Korea: humanitarian groups labor under sanctions

December 15, 2018

According to Women Cross DMZ, North Koreans this winter will continue to struggle with an unprecedented number of sanctions. Sanctions have been imposed on North Korea (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) since 1950 ostensibly because it is an authoritarian communist regime. However the number of sanctions rose sharply after 2006 for its launching of ballistic missiles and conducting of nuclear […]

Category: Asian American, Human Rights, International, Politics, World War Tags: community, Food Sovereignty, grassroots activism, human rights, human trafficking, integrity, peace education, world bank

2018 Women’s March on the Pentagon demands end to war

October 27, 2018

Washington, D.C—The Women’s March on the Pentagon 2018 seems like an unqualified success. Over a thousand people showed up for the March on Sunday October 21, 2018 at 11:00 am. According to the march organizers: Our demands are simple: The complete end to the wars abroad; closure of foreign bases; dramatically slash the Pentagon budget to fund healthy social programs […]

Category: Asian American, Green Party, Human Rights, International, NATO, News, Politics, Poverty, Regional, World War Tags: feminism

Obama urges young people to vote: Big issues ahead

September 21, 2018

For young Asian-Americans the Yang 2020 movement may be something to look forward to. Andrew Yang seems to be promising a lot: a minimum wage of $1000 per month as a free stipend, no strings attached. However as AGN‘s investigations into Universal Basic Income (UBI) bear out, UBI is a pipedream at this point. There are more immediate concerns. Will […]

Category: Elections, National, News, Politics

More conservative media dominating D.C. landscape

September 1, 2018

Ten years ago, there were quite a few newspaper vending boxes in downtown Washington, D.C. Especially they congregated around the Washington Post headquarters near 15th and Massachusetts Avenue. Along 15th Street across from the Washington Post, and adjacent street corners, even offered free newspaper boxes. Newshounds could pick up their free copy of The Diplomat, Politico, The Hill, The Blade, […]

Category: Gentrification, Media, Politics, Regional

Hyperlocalization of news killing messengers

August 3, 2018

Note: This opinion-piece is not intended to be a perspective representative of any one group or collection of persons. There are dozens of ways conservative corporate media squelches independent news sources. It includes labeling real news as fake, giving respectable journalists a bad name, and trivializing journalism as a profession. Most journalists don’t set off to write fake news as […]

Category: Asian American, Culture, Media, Mind-Body-Spirit, News, Politics Tags: Asian-American, community, media, race

2018 PPEHRC March on Washington showcases voices of the poor

June 27, 2018

Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) successfully completed its march this year from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. Although they have yet to garner the media attention they merit, there were a host of small wins, the most important being how it helps the general public identify the root causes of poverty today. Never is there […]

Category: Green Party, Human Rights, Labor, National, News, Politics, Poverty, Regional Tags: community, corruption, education, grassroots activism, homelessness, human rights, morality, peace education, social justice, Sustainability

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