Great Soul Wellness Studio in Lauraville, will be offering free wellness treatments and classes during their first anniversary weekend, February 6-8, 2009.

"Introduction of taxation on speculative financial transactions must go along with a genuine nationalization that involves a change of the actual banking system into a public system and fixes the role of money as a neutral means of exchange for services."

Global IndyMedia is still locked in a blackout on Feature articles about Palestine and Gaza
News from all fronts, military, diplomatic, political and alternative media.

The mechanized slaughter against the people of Gaza has entered a "third phase", in military terms. It is a replica of the Nazi operation to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto.

As more and more working Americans struggle to make ends meet, the ability to form a union is key to the economic stability, health, and well-being of American families. Union workers’ median weekly earnings are 30 percent higher than those of non-union workers, union workers are 63 percent more likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance, and union workers are 77 percent more likely to have short-term disability benefits. According to a recent poll, nearly 60 percent of Americans would join a union if they could. (AFL-CIO, “The Union Difference: Union Advantage by the Numbers.”)

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is legislation in the United States which aims to "amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.

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The self-healing market, the market that corrects itself, is at the heart of the perfect economic storm. The financial crisis (now banking, real estate, jobs and credit crises) has forced the reconsideration of the role of the state. Psychology helps unmask thereligion of the market

One wonders why so many in the media and film industry are in such frenzy over Christopher Nolan’s film “The Dark Night”? Granted the movie is good, and in some ways great, but still the plot is really no more ingenious that what passes for standard fare on Law and Order. So why is it that the Powers-that-Be is such a tizzy? No doubt a fair share has to do with it portending to hold a mirror up to post-9/11 society—with a major theme of how terror can corrupt those that fear and fight terrorism.

At her confirmation hearing for labor secretary on Friday, Representative Hilda Solis was challenged by several Republican senators for supporting a bitterly contested bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions.

The article by the editor of The Nation was published 12/31/2008.
A transcript of President-elect Obama's address on the crisis follows her article.