Problem: A líder comunitária Rosemar Soares moradora de Piabetá, bairro localizado no município de Magé. Ela identificava vários problemas que só a Prefeitura não estava conseguindo solucionar, como a falta de lazer e de alguns serviços de saúde. Somava-se à isso a vontade da líder de unir e conscientizar os moradores, principalmente os negros, a respeito de seus direitos como cidadãos lutando sempre contra qualquer tipo de discriminação. Rose sabia que podia fazer muita coisa para melhorar a qualidad...

Action: O objetivo inicial do projeto era buscar a consolidação de parcerias com outras instituições, para levar adiante todos os programas sociais implementados pelo Centro Cultural Afro de Piabet.     Serviços oferecidos pelo Projeto:   Distribuição de preservativos -masculino e feminino; palestras sobre a prevenção s DST/Aids; distribuição de material educativo e informativos sobre s DST/Aids; bingo educativo; almoço comunitário; encaminhamento dos usuários do projeto para os posto de ...

Problem: Help bring about federal standards for safety assessments of genetically engineered foods. Background: The haphazard and negligent agency regulation of biotechnology has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. Unsuspecting consumers are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks. A number of studies over the past decade have revealed that genetically engineered foods ca...

Action: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has repeatedly introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all GE foods; the other, The Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act, would require mandatory, pre-market safety testing of GE foods.

Problem: Whatever the reason people become homeless, we* all become penniless, cold, hot, hungry, confused, stressed, lonely and miserable. Homeless shelters are mostly breeding grounds of despair. Some people that purport to be helping the homeless are exploiting or judging them instead. Many over-churched folks think they can "earn points" or smooth out their "Karma" by reducing their stockpiles of worn and out-of-fashion clothing or donating canned goods and stale baloney sandwiches to a local miss...

Action: So much needs to be done to understand the true nature of homelessness. A subjective look at the problem can be enlightening. Empirical data can be gleaned from close honest contact with urban refugees. Building dialog is of core significance in the following plan of action. A surprising number of homeless people you'll meet are intelligent, articulate, willing to work, and creative, which is profoundly contrary to media-formed belief. Some apparently homeless people have college degrees and ...

Problem: In the healing realm there are answers the public may want to know about.

Action: A spoken word CD was created to let people know what healing guides say about cancer.

Problem: Creating an integrated taxation and social security system that guides the invisible hand of the market to help everyone.

Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society.   In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...