http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home RSS feed. en-gb http://www.positivenewsus.org/poweredBy http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home 88 31 Search the site. PrincipiaSearchSource http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/main?canDisplay:int=1&path=/ta/sites/positivenewsus/content/home http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news01/03/2009_at_02:35:51 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news   http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/currentele01/03/2009_at_04:02:51 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/currentele Coming Soon! Check back here to download the Winter 2008 Edition. http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home01/03/2009_at_04:05:37 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home   http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_1201/03/2009_at_04:07:39 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12   Other Stories from the Full Edition  Cultivating Health and Well Being  Harlem Children's Zone On the Trail of the Urban Scout The road to the Electoral Reform Williams's Windmill http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/exposingpo01/03/2009_at_04:07:41 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/exposingpo LONDON, UK - More than 100 men and women clad just in their underpants trooped on to the concourse of a central London train station this November setting a new world record for the largest gathering of people wearing underpants. The event was organized by Pants to Poverty, a Fair Trade Organization, to mark Guinness World Records Day. Pants to Poverty, part of the Make Poverty History coalition aims to "rid the world of bad pants" by selling ethical underwear that is fair... http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/messagetot01/03/2009_at_04:07:45 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/messagetot Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many others before you carried, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, only to be struck down before igniting the flame of justice and of law, is almost more than the heart can... http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/powertothe01/03/2009_at_04:07:50 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/powertothe SOUTH AFRICA - What began in 2005 as the Kennedy Road settlement's protest of apartheid-like land allocation has grown into a powerful democratic mass movement of over 35,000 people and 30 settlements across South Africa. Abahlali baseMjondolo, Zulu for ‘people who live in shacks', has fused into a powerful force against evictions, unlawful arrests, and other injustices of the country's poorest citizens. Office holders at the branch, settlement and movement levels... http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/standingup01/03/2009_at_04:07:54 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/standingup Have you ever heard someone say "Oh, she don't work, she just takes care of her kids"? Pat Gowens and fellow volunteers at Mother Warriors Voice want to change that common perception of what is really the very important job of child rearing.  They are getting the word out that Motherwork IS work and that it should be paid and prioritized by the community and in the workplace. "We actively protest the devastation caused by cruel welfare reform," says Pat... http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/swedendemo01/03/2009_at_04:08:00 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/swedendemo The northern European country of Sweden is named the 'most democratic' nation in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a project of the conservative Economist magazine. "Sweden, a near-perfect democracy, comes top, followed by a bevy of similarly virtuous northern European countries," the EIU reports. When 60 indicators were graded from 1 to 10, Sweden achieved a dazzling score of 9.88. The indicators were spread across five broad areas: electoral... http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/whymydadsg01/03/2009_at_04:08:05 http://www.positivenewsus.org/content/home/news/samplestor_12/whymydadsg It started with a lawn sign war. It was 2000. I was 16, and sold on Ralph Nader, even though I couldn't actually vote. I staked a Nader lawn sign in front of my parents' house. It was quickly stashed in the garage. I put it out again. And again, back to the garage. Dad was rooting for Bush. I never really felt like my politics fit in my family. There was my conversion to vegetarianism (the same as "communism" in Dad's book), my stance against President Bush and...