Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Haiti’s Hurricane Victims Facing Homelessness and Food Shortages

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2008  1:32 PM

CONTACT: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Haiti’s Hurricane Victims Facing Homelessness and Food Shortages
MSF Denounces Inefficient Emergency Response in Gonaïves

GONAIVES – October 13 – Five weeks after a series of hurricanes struck Haiti, people
in the city of Gonaïves are still deprived of essential services, the international
medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) said today. Since early October, families have been evicted from schools and
churches where they had sought refuge after the storms destroyed their homes.

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Deal Could Open National Forests to Developers

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Published on Sunday, October 12, 2008 by The Associated Press
Deal Could Open National Forests to Developers

A controversial deal between the federal government and the nation’s largest private
landowner could increase residential development of forests around the country,
according to congressional investigators.

The proposed agreement between the Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co. would
allow the company to use roads on national forests in Montana to develop its
adjacent private property for subdivisions. Such easements often allow the company
to use public roads only for logging or forest management.

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Americans Increasingly Worried About Hunger

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Published on Friday, October 10, 2008 by One World.net

Americans Increasingly Worried About Hunger
by Haider Rizvi

NEW YORK- People with low income in the United States are feeling increasingly insecure about their ability to buy food, according to a new study released by an independent research group.

“As the economy continues its downward trend, concerns about hunger will only intensify,” said Jim Weill, president of the Washington, DC-based Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), which published the study Thursday.

The research indicates that a substantial majority of working families have lost their trust in the federal government’s ability to address the issue of growing levels of hunger and that the next administration must pay close attention to it.

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