Full Coverage: North America

30.06.2007 ATLANTA, Jun 29 (IPS) - Under the banner, "If another world is possible, another U.S. is necessary," 10,000 civil society activists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday for the beginning of the first U.S. Social Forum.

29.06.2007 The new UK government and its European partners should atone for their failure to break the U.S. monopoly on the World Bank presidency by ending the "gentlemen's agreement" that allows them to appoint the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, say a group of British NGOs.

28.06.2007 GENEVA, Jun 28 (IPS) - Global civil society leaders called on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Thursday to use both international channels and their muscle on the ground for applying pressure on governments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

28.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 28 (OneWorld) - As federal authorities declared today that the bald eagle is no longer on the list of threatened species, environmental activists and conservation groups across the United States expressed joy with the fruition of efforts to save the national symbol from extinction.

28.06.2007 "We both have the same blood running through our veins," says a young Mexican-American about her undocumented friend. So why can one get a job while the other cannot?

28.06.2007 Despite losing her bid to become a city council person in Watsonville, California, Mireya Gomez brought many young Latinos into the political process.

28.06.2007 An online magazine created by five friends in Boston brings news and networking to their community.

28.06.2007 Writing about her childhood in the Salinas Valley, Rose Castillo Guilbault describes the migrants, the men who came alone, the families, and one "special friend."

28.06.2007 Host Alexander Zevelyov brings trademark zeal to interviews with pop stars, debates over San Francisco streets, and the identity dilemmas of Russian immigrants.

28.06.2007 OneWorld and New America Media bring you the voices and stories of those at the center of the political firestorm.

28.06.2007 Growing up, I recall my mother hardly being at home. She left for work at ten in the morning and returned home at eleven at night. It wasn't that my mother was neglecting me; she was doing what was needed in order to survive.

28.06.2007 Thirty years after fleeing Vietnam, Andrew Lam rediscovers old family letters and tries to recognize the childhood innocence he left behind and decides to write a letter addressing his young self.

28.06.2007 After seven years of struggle and $10,000, Ernesto Javier is finally getting his legal status.

28.06.2007 Teens in the Central Valley of California have seen hundreds of immigrants detained in ICE raids. These are some of their thoughts.

28.06.2007 With close to 9 million Poles in the United States, it would seem a natural for young Poles to come here looking for work, but for various reasons, they are saying "Who needs America?"

27.06.2007 The Bush administration's aggressive ideological promotion of a link between unfettered capitalism and democracy is damaging the world and undermining the United States' own interests, argues Bob Burnett.
From openDemocracy

27.06.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 27 (OneWorld) - Thousands of social activists from across the United States are descending on Atlanta, Georgia this week.

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 26 (OneWorld) - As the U.S. Senate voted today to resume debate on its immigration reform bill, a new poll brings the voices of those at the heart of the debate -- undocumented workers themselves -- into the mix.

26.06.2007 A leader of the Chagossian community - expelled from their Indian Ocean island home by Britain to allow development of a U.S. nuclear base - has attacked the UK government's decision to appeal against the third High Court ruling in their favour as “heartless and callous.”
+ Don't Appeal, UK Urged
+ Diega Garcia background
+ Islanders fight 'the final round'

26.06.2007 No surprise there then. The one and only candidate for World Bank President has got the job, despite a few quiet voices arguing for an open competition for which everyone can run.
+ 'Gentleman's agreement' must end