Please take a moment to check out the op-ed published today in the Daily News about the situation for folks coming off the street and how that led to the deaths of two people last week.

Philadelphia's Defenestrator Newspaper has just released issue #40, featuring articles about Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, The Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign, To Snitch or Not To Snitch, and a labor victory at Temple and Penn.

READ THE FULL ISSUE: New Jersey Bans Death Penalty , Guinness Records: Massacre or Suicide? , Al Nakba Remembered in Philly , ACTIVISTS WIN $1.5 MILLION WAGE AND BENEFIT INCREASE FROM TEMPLE AND PENN , defenestrate my space@@@! , Philadelphia for Philadelphians!: The Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign , Director of Obscure Police Agency Assassinated in Oaxaca City , To Snitch or Not To Snitch , Army of One , Border Anarchy , Panic! A short guide to recovering from panic attacks , New Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey: Police Repression and Disaster Capitalism , WORKERS, NOT POLITICIANS, WILL END THIS WAR: Build Our Solidarity, Not Their Elections , Correctional Officer Hung Noose on Prisoners Cell Door at SCI- Houtzdale , Empowerment vs. Humiliation , Screening on Prison Abuse Turns Into Reality , Shell to Hell , Today We Experienced America: Arresting Indigenous People on the Border , The Bourne Ultimatum : Rejecting the CIA , and Lakota Secede. (VIEW PDF)

New evidence of corruption has emerged in federal probes of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's connections with companies awarded lucrative contracts related to New Orleans public housing projects slated for demolition.

It should come as no surprise that free-market capitalism — predatory, unchecked, unregulated, and like any other hustle, dependent upon winners and losers for its bread and butter — chooses to prey on the most vulnerable members of society.

During the last years of his life, King's push for ending the economic inequity experienced by Americans of all colors probably played a larger role in his assassination than his being a popular black leader. In the months before his April 4, 1968 murder, Dr. King was preparing for The Poor People's Campaign, a populist protest planned for Washington, DC to push the federal government to eliminate poverty from 'the hollows of Appalachia to the ghetto of Harlem.'

Join our call on Mayor Nutter and City Council to declare another State of Emergency - this one to guarantee housing for all Philadelphians now - not another dollar for war in Iraq! KWRU will be on the west side of City Hall at 4:30 PM this Friday and then join the regular anti-military recruiting vigil at Broad and Cherry Streets later.

Why should the taxpayers bailout the predatory home lenders?

What distinguishes the life and work of King towards his latter days, was his dedication to Black poor folks, a group that seems to be all but forgotten in the years since his passing. While today's America seems to be on the brink of electing a Black person (or at least possibly nominating one), the plight of the Black poor could hardly be more perilous.