Four videos made by community groups will premiere Tuesday .

_{By Carolyn Davis}
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Lawanda Connelly won't be stepping out of a limo or walking the red carpet when she attends the premiere at the International House Tuesday of a documentary she helped make .

Joan Armatrading’s statement posted on her homepage calling on leaders of Israel and Palestine , Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal, to “take that step” to solve “the problem” is a backwards way of acknowledging protests of her recent concert in Tel Aviv, Israel . When she plays SF at the Palace of Fine Arts on Tuesday Aug 8 we want her to know that to flagrantly disregard the Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott is to take a stand with racism and apartheid.

Haiti: survival and reconstrucion

http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html

Most aid bypasses self-organized communities, usually led by women, in favour of big NGOs. That’s a major reason why, six months after the most devastating earthquake, water, food, shelter and medical supplies are still scandalously scarce. Only about 2% of the billions promised has been delivered.

In Los Angeles, Unsolved Killings Reflected Era

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and REBECCA CATHCART     July 19, 2010