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...Absent legislation, members of FACTS (Families to Amend California's 3 Strikes) hope to get a statewide referendum on the 2004 ballot modifying the law to only apply to violent offenders on the third offense. The group's founder and executive director Geri Silva believes California voters will support a ballot initiative to focus the law on violent offenders only. While results of a recent poll conducted by a public policy research company indicate strong support (69 percent approval) for the three strikes law, results show as many as 65 percent of California voters would support a "violent offenders only...
...issue. But these days, alongside images of the Rio bloodshed, there's an uncommon sight that even Brazilian politicians apparently can't ignore: the nation's World Cup-champion football team Sporting Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) T shirts in support of leftist President Luiz In á cio Lula da Silva's ambitious antipoverty program. The team's gesture reflects, for the moment anyway, a rare sense of unified national purpose in Brazil. Last week's headlines also included all 27 of the country's state governors pledging to help Lula and his Workers' Party (PT) achieve crucial tax and pension...
Jose Graziano Da Silva As Food Security Minister, the former economist will run Lula's Zero Hunger project...
...Benedita Da Silva Born in a Rio slum, Da Silva is set to help Brazil's poor as the new Welfare Minister...
...poor. It is his presidency's one indulged, untouchable priority. He has made it a special umbrella ministry, coordinating 60 programs, that is not unlike the new U.S. Homeland Security Department. "This is like war mobilization for us," says special Food Security Minister José Graziano da Silva, an economist and longtime Lula adviser. In addition to food relief, the ministry is charged with attacking the causes of Brazil's malnutrition, such as laughable rural infrastructure and the nation's paltry $60 monthly minimum wage, which Lula hopes to double by the end of his term in 2006. More important...