The Social Security sends letters to employers when names and social security numbers fail to match.
Recently, the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has gotten involved. A court order has restrained the DHS, who now is floating a new set of rules.
When City Arts LLC opened in November 2006, gallery owners hoped it would be like Saturday Market with a roof. But fourteen months after opening, the gallery owners have had to tell about ninety artists that the gallery would be closing.
Three public housing advocates in New Orleans are facing felony charges after they were arrested on Friday afternoon.
The three activists occupied the Lafitte housing project during a protest against the demolition of affordable, undamaged public housing in New Orleans.
KBOO spoke with Jay Arena, a long-time public housing advocate in the city of New Orleans:
As the corporate media declares that the government of Mexico has succeeded in suppressing the people's uprising in Oaxaca, the people of Oaxaca are emerging to tell a very different story.
In Oaxaca this week, a forum was held to give a voice to the political prisoners that are still being held from the 2006 people's revolt.
Here in Oregon, as well, the voices of the people of Oaxaca are coming through in a variety of forums, films and public presentations.
As we reported yesterday on KBOO News, a Portlander who attempted to attend the Barack Obama rally on Friday was asked to leave because he was carrying a sign reading "No Iraq War".
KBOO's Crystal Leighty spoke with the man, Peter Maur: