The UK's plan to "help" people find work has placed just 48,000 people in three years. However, it might appear more effective if judged by the 300,000 poor unemployed people it provided an excuse to punish, providing opportunities to claim that they are unemployed because they are lazy, which is justification for the government's cruel austerity program.

The Australian government has taken 14,000 aboriginal children away from their parents, in many cases without giving any reason, and is planning to legislate an excuse to make the removals permanent.

This makes me think of the children that were taken away from dissidents in Argentina who were murdered by the US-supported military rulers. Grandparents continue to try to find them.

$4.5 Million Settlement for Anti-War Veteran, Occupy Activist Injured by Oakland Police.

In New York City, or able to help remotely: help save the New York Public Library from a "renovation" that would convert it to ebooks.

US citizens: tell Michelle Obama that if she's interested in food labels, she should call for labeling GMOs.