ACORN member Donna Hanks re-took her home.Foreclosed on last Fall, the house has stood empty since then, a stark reminder of the failure of the system. But Donna joined with 30 ACORN Home Defenders to liberate her home from the bank. Her act of civil disobedience was covered by 2 radio stations, 2 TV stations, the Baltimore Sun, and the Huffington Post. 

Donna used bolt cutters to break the lock to the door and re-enter the home. Unfortunately, in the six short months since the home was seized, it has been extensively damaged, essentially partially gutted. The toilets are missing, and the upstairs ceiling is badly damaged. The greatest tragedy here is that Donna worked for months with ACORN sister organization ACORN Housing Corporation to try to get the bank to modify the loan so it could be affordable, but they refused, taking the home and now allowing it to be a haven for squatters and a target of looters.  

My Mother and I Dont Leave | Video | AlterNet

Torture and the American Psyche Concerned citizens and members of the mental health profession discuss the role of psychologists in interrogations. May 3rd, 2008 at the First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts. Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. psychoanalyst, social activist and professor at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and national leader in opposing psychologist participation in torture and abuse, presents paper on Psychologists and Torture and Civil Society. 

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Happy 35th Birthday Roe v. Wade [VIDEO]

Today, we owe it to ourselves, and the generations of women and activists before us, to celebrate 35 years of women collectively fighting to uphold the legal right to abortion and for accessibility to quality healthcare in the name of self determination, autonomy, political and social equality.