I learned that this resource from the Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force of SRRT (the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Librarian Association) was just updated.

This question was posted to the Library Underground discussion list, and I thought the answers were worth sharing on the open web. The answers included were done so with their contributors' permission.

Does immigration, including illegal immigration really cost US taxpayers as much as the right-wing claims? What about all the money paid into social security that isn't taken out by undocumented immigrants? Specific numbers for Washington State would be most appreciated.

Hi I am archivist assistant - we are currently reorganizing our archive. Many of our file drawers are over ten years old and they painfully squeak whenever they are opened. I would use WD 40 but since the posters are stored in these cabinets I think the chemicals would damage the paper.

I am a part of Heads On Fire, a San Diego based non-profit organization, and we are starting a research project on the present situation of Irian Jaya/Western Papua New Guinea in Indonesia, where reports of genocide are currently being investigated after 43 Papua refugees landed in Australia in January 2006.

Whole Foods' coffee brand, Allegro, isn't fair trade certified. When one approaches the coffee counter in different Whole Foods stores asking if their coffee is fair trade, employees are eerily identical in the answer they provide: their coffee is grown sustainably and fairly *just like* fair trade coffee, and doesn't need the label. I find this canned spiel pretty sketchy of Whole Foods and thought many others would too, but am finding many people buy it, and don't realize it's important to look for the fair trade logo. Now (partly to settle an argument in my house) I'm trying to figure out what exactly Whole Foods/Allegro is/isn't doing re conditions on its coffee farms or in its buying practices that keep it from that fair trade certification.

Is there any US gov't funding involved in supporting the police forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan? We've all seen the US-funded riot police beating up democracy/islamist protesters in Egypt...

I have a question regarding international copyright laws that I'm hoping you can help me with.

I'm an American living in South Korea, and I have another American friend here who has an English blog that was translated and quoted without her permission in a Korean newspaper. The article includes her full name. Not only was the translation inaccurate, but she also never spoke to the person who wrote the article and quoted her. Is this legal in Korea? Thanks for any help you can give me.

My question is this: Can you point me to a list of significant (especially book-length) works on (a) anarchism and law, and (b) anarchism and psychology? I've written several short things on aspects of this, and am looking to see what I might have missed that might tie the whole thing up more systematically.

I am an unemployed ph.d. (cinema studies) seeking extra-academic work, preferably in a progressive think tank or research institute. Is there a list or guide to such places that includes contact infor