Cinnamon and Honey
Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do
what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey. However,
when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call
"crystallizing".
When this happens I loosen t… Continue
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Ryan Hicks (818) 256-9306
Sharon Batts (916) 992-3015
Website: www.ballinforpeace.org
Press Release
See Ryan Hicks, Co-Founder, Ballin’ For Peace, special
interview on CNN with D.L. Hughley -
Breaks the News:
Saturday & Sunday, January 17-18, 2009
Ballin’ For Peac… Continue
Please join us once again this year to call on Starbucks to honor Martin Luther King Day by paying the same holiday premium that it pays on five other federal holidays to baristas who work on those days.
Last year after your grassroots actions, Starbucks was forced to admit publicly for the first time that it does not pay its time-and-a-half holiday premium on Dr. King's federal holiday. Yet, the company persisted in denying the holiday premium and continued to treat Dr. King's day as a second-… Continue
For Immediate Release:
Starbucks Workers Union (Industrial Workers of the World)
Contact: Cole Dorsey- organizer IWW Starbucks Workers Union,
616-540-0243
Faced With Snowballing Legal Woes, Starbucks Settles Case Over Lawyer's Illegal Interrogations of Union Workers
First Labor Board Settlement to Disallow Repeat-Offender Starbucks
From Denying Guilt
Grand Rapids, MI (Jan. 5, 2009)- Just days after Starbucks suffered a decisive defeat in a lengthy Labor Board trial in New York, the embattled… Continue
Apollo Poetry is a spoken word artist who has chosen words as tools of inspiration to bridge the gap between our cultural divisions and unite us back into the realization that we are souls having a human experience.
Apollo Poetry was featured on MTV with over 10 million viewers, w… Continue
For Immediate Release:
Starbucks Workers Union (Industrial Workers of the World)
Contact: StarbucksUnion (at) yahoo.com
Judge Finds Starbucks Guilty of Extensive Union-Busting
The IWW Scores Big Victory Over Global Coffee Chain
New York, NY (Dec. 23, 2008)- Following a lengthy trial here last year, a National Labor Relations Board judge has found Starbucks guilty of extensive violations of federal labor law in its bid to counter the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. In an 88-page decision, Judge… Continue
by,James Joyner
A highly touted report coming out today shows that 1 in 4 homeless are veterans.
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
And… Continue
I have to say thank you Angela for choosing me to be the Diva of the week. It hasn't been long, but I feel your spirit and knows this was meant to be. It truly feels good to come across those that understand and appreciate the work that I do. You are truly an inspiration to me and I thank god for you. Girl this is only the beginning. I'LL ALWAYS BE HERE FOR YOU WILL NO QUESTIONS ASKED
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Getting in the giving spirit? Well why not kill to birds with one stone. You can now buy from our Humanity Healing Store and portion of the proceeds will go to Humanity Healing. Here are a couple of items to check out.
On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. Th… Continue
Anna Hurst is a New York City barista, Starbucks Union member, and a single mother of two.
One day in August, Anna went home ill from work at Starbucks. In retaliation, her store manager - abruptly and without notice - denied her any work hours for two full weeks.
Anna needs the money she's owed to put food on the table, pay her bills, and buy Christmas presents for her children.
Call and/or text message store manager Gwendolyn Krueger today at 551-497-0127 and demand that Starbucks pay Anna… Continue
Oral History and Story by Trena Cleland
In the spring of 2004, the staff of St. Mary's Center in Oakland asked me to collect oral histories of several of their clients, formerly homeless men and women aged 55 and over. These elders of different races and backgrounds have survived in an… Continue
More Than One Million Homeless Children
• At least 1.35 million children are homeless during a year’s time.
• One any given day 800,000 people are homeless in the United States, including 200,000 children in homeless
families.
• Families with children are among the fastest growi… Continue