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Habitat is assessing damage to affordable housing, including Habitat homes in the Granbury area ATLANTA, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Several tornadoes ripped through Texas Wednesday night, including one that struck a community in the Granbury area, where up to 120 homes were damaged or destroyed in a neighborhood that included 61 Habitat for Humanity houses. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050501/NYSU020LOGO) Habitat for Humanity is assessing the impact on affordable...

Former members of the US Congress have issued a communiqué from the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure just held in Washngton, DC at the National Press Club. The communiqué requests the Citizen Hearing Foundation begin raising funds to pursue a group of nations to submit a resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for a World Conference to review evidence for a possible extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 The Citizen Hearing on...

LOS ANGELES, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Actress and author Holly Robinson Peete joined women volunteers with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles and Lowe's yesterday to rehabilitate a home. Peete was among nearly 10,000 women who volunteered at Habitat construction sites this week across the country in recognition of National Women Build Week, May 4-12. A mother of four, Peete is the national spokesperson for National Women Build Week 2013 and a longtime supporter of...

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) and convener of Black Women's Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U.S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding that about two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites who did so. This marks the first time...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Robert Hastings: In an interview with ABC News/Yahoo! News last Friday, former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said statements by U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officers--regarding mysterious aerial objects interfering with the functionality of American ICBMs--make clear that top government officials are lying to the public when they claim to have no knowledge of national...

20 Million Seniors Volunteering Nearly 3 Billion Hours - a Value of $67 Billion; Senior Corps Week - May 6-10 - Showcases Impact of Older Volunteers WASHINGTON, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to new data released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), senior volunteering is at a 10-year high - one in three volunteers is a senior age 55 and older. These men and women tap a lifetime of experience to help those in greatest need. More than...

Women volunteers across the U.S. join together to build affordable housing in their communities ATLANTA, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Actress and author Holly Robinson Peete will join more than 10,000 women, including Lowe's Heroes from across the country, to volunteer at Habitat for Humanity construction sites in recognition of National Women Build Week, May 4-12. Now in its sixth year, National Women Build Week challenges women to devote at least one day to help build affordable...

jcp cares supporters will be able to round up purchases at jcp.com ATLANTA, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitat for Humanity is partnering with jcpenney in the retailer's charitable giving program, jcp cares. jcpenney customers can round up their purchases in May to the nearest whole dollar and donate the difference to support Habitat's affordable housing work in partnership with low-income families. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050501/NYSU020LOGO) World-renowned...

Participants of group riots have since the end of the 1960s been viewed as rational individuals driven by a sense of injustice. But in today’s world this is misleading, concludes sociologist and PhD Christian Borch in a newly published doctoral thesis, and he encourages the police to take the destructive behaviour of some participants into account when dealing with groups of rioters. During the so-called ’UK Riots’ in the summer of 2011, discontented young people set the streets of...

Groups Press for New Law to Level Playing Field for Consumers in Rate Hike Cases - Create Utility "Watchdog" Office ALBANY, N.Y., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Yorkers get hit with some of the highest utility bills in the nation, and according to AARP, this is exactly why the utility game needs to change in the Empire State. Today, a group of New York lawmakers, AARP New York, and a broad coalition of consumer groups are proposing legislation to do just that,...