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PC's Former Associate Director Mickey Huff and Frances Capell discuss the Top Ten Junk Food News Stories and Top Five News Abuse Stories for 2008 and 2009. In quoting a Chinese proverb, they conclude: "Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."
Stories of Hope and Change
PC examines "strategies that appear to be improving the health of the community, whether local or global" at a time when real solutions more than ever are needed. Examples covered include "events or programs that are actually working for people and that increase the healthy functioning of governments, economies, the environment and the human condition."
It proves that organized people can beat organized money for constructive change as effectively as when famed Chicago community organizer/activist Saul Alinsky (1909 - 1972) once explained it.
Examples include:
-- citizen groups in all 18 Iraqi provinces successfully promoting peaceful elections;
-- New York grassroots organizers and volunteers using the state's fusion voting laws to win over citizens for higher wages, fair taxes, affordable housing, civil rights, and campaign finance reform;
-- 1,500 campaign donors pledging "not to donate to any federal candidate unless they support legislation making congressional elections citizen-funded, not special-interest funded;"
-- pro-Israeli groups like Americans for Peace Now (APN) and J Street calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead last December and January;
-- Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) introducing a bill to strengthen federal whistleblower protections;
-- Canada's Stephen Harper-led government apologizing for the treatment of native peoples;
-- a successful democracy movement in Brazil;
-- a European-led "revolution in chemical regulation" requiring thousands of chemicals to be assessed for potential toxicity;
-- a federal appeals court telling the EPA that its pollutants standards are "contrary to law and unsupported by adequately reasoned decision making;"
-- a New York Times/CBS poll showing that the majority of Americans want Washington to provide universal single-payer health coverage, and most physicians back it, including 17,000 doctors, medical students, and health professional members of Physicians for a National Health Program;
-- brain research on Buddhist monks revealing the benefits of meditation;
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