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Blog Entries by Saki Knafo from 06/2012

Occupy Protesters In Minneapolis Fight To Save Foreclosed Home, Pushing Movement's New Focus

Publication 06.02.2012
Suivre: Alejandre Cruz, Foreclosure Crisis, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Anthony Newby, Minneapolis, Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Housing Crisis, Bobby Hull, Occupy Homes, Nick Espinosa, Monique White, Foreclosure, Robert Hull, Occupy Cruz Family, Video, L'actualité

The house at 4404 Cedar Ave., in south Minneapolis, sits a little ways back from a leafy road. An American flag flies from the front door. When member...

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Bloomberg's Soda Ban And The Epicenter Of The City's Obesity Crisis

Publication 06.07.2012
Suivre: Bloomberg, Obesity Crisis, Soda Ban, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, Bloomberg's Soda Ban, Bloomberg Sugary Drinks, Hunts Point Produce Market, New York City Terminal Market, Obesity, Hunts Point, South Bronx, L'actualité

Every morning, thousands of trucks roll out of a giant produce market in the Bronx bearing loads of arugula, chicory, escarole, radicchio and just abo...

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Occupy Homes Minnesota: Cruz Family's Cross-Country Bank Appeal Fails

Publication 06.21.2012
Suivre: PNC Bank, Pittsburg, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Minneapolis, Financial Crisis, Occupy Homes Minnesota, Foreclosure, Foreclosed Homes, Occupy Homes Mn, Alejandra Cruz, Occupy Movement, Housing Crisis, Video, L'actualité

The house at 4044 Cedar Ave. in Minneapolis has seen a lot of activity lately. Dozens of Occupy Homes Minnesota activists have camped out in it. Polic...

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New York Chidren's Services Saved As Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Find Funds

Publication 06.26.2012
Suivre: After School, Ost, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, After-School, Bloomberg Budget Battle, Michelle Yanche, New York, Bloomberg, Video, Child Care, Campaign for Children, New York City Children's Services, Childcare, City Council, New York City Council, Early Childhood Education, L'actualité

In their apartment in a rough neighborhood of Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon, Carmen Torres and her 10-year-old daughter, Jaylee Nieves, rattled off so...

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Homeless Students Top 1 Million, U.S. Says, Leaving Advocates 'Horrified'

Publication 06.28.2012
Suivre: Hearus, Barbara Duffield, Homeless Kids, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, Homeless Students, Homeless Children, Education Department, Homeless Families, Mckinney Vento Act, Education Department Homeless Students, Diane Nilan, Homeless, L'actualité

Back in November of 2005, Diane Nilan had what she now concedes may have struck some people as a “crazy notion.” She’d been working as advocate ...

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