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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011Black, Hispanic Aldermen Join Forces On Chicago Casino
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011US -The members of the Chicago City Council’s Black and Hispanic Caucuses are pushing for a Chicago casino and slot machines at the city’s airports, despite the effect easy access to gambling may have on the communities they represent. Chicago Sun Times. What neither Brookins or Solis mentioned, however, is these constituencies are also the [...]
Wary Connecticut lawmakers consider response to Massachusetts casinos
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011US - With Massachusetts lawmakers poised to bring three casinos to Massachusetts, a push that appears to have gathered momentum since a monumental collapse last year, lawmakers from Connecticut proffered a warning: Don’t get your hopes up. “If Massachusetts does move forward and we stay in a prolonged economic downturn, they may find that the rewards [...]
Gambling is a Dirty Business that Doesn’t Belong in Mass.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011US - Gambling’s social costs aren’t debatable. Those who gamble are likely taking risks they can’t afford and spending money they don’t have. Many have addictions that control their behavior, leaving them incapable of making wise decisions. If you don’t think gambling takes advantage of the poor, you haven’t been in a convenience store waiting in [...]
Argentina’s largest Catholic Archdiocese comes out strongly against gambling
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011INTERNATIONAL – The Vatican newspaper is drawing greater attention to a recent condemnation of gambling by one of Argentina’s largest dioceses. The pastoral-social agency of the Archdiocese of Córdoba, which has nearly two million Catholics, stated in an August 25 letter that gambling “affects, above all, the poorest families, who see in it a magical [...]
Opal town in war on pokies
Sunday, August 14th, 2011AUSTRALIA - Five years ago, Andamooka’s school was robbed of $300,000 by a staff member who fed the money into the pokies. And now locals of the Outback community have waged war on a proposal to fill their only pub with 20 poker machines. Adelaide Now.
Government Push to expand gambling is a bad bet for Americans
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011US - The new website, www.GetGovernmentOutofGambling.org, launched by the Institute for American Values, sheds light on the numerous—and significant—social ills caused by the partnership of governments with legalized gambling. Contrary to what elected officials would have citizens believe, state-sponsored gambling is bad public policy that costs all taxpayers. With little public input, the government has used—and [...]
Tasmania launches anti-gambling campaign
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011AUSTRALIA- In response to the $AU 20 million anti-pokie-reform campaign launched by industry, the Tasmanian government has launched a very slick anti-gambling campaign. News story and video here ABC, campaign website here Know Your Odds.
Social justice call for gamblers
Thursday, March 31st, 2011AUSTRALIA- The “terrible toll” of problem gambling cannot be dealt with unless Church and community groups “match the noises coming from the pro-pokies lobby”, a St Vincent de Paul Society spokesman has warned. “Though only about 15 per cent of pokie players are problem gamblers they ‘contribute’ around 40 per cent or more of total pokie [...]
Texas Gov.Perry renews opposition to gambling
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011US- In a telephone chat with 100,000 Texans on Monday night, Gov. Rick Perry reaffirmed his opposition to casino gambling . Perry said he has “been very consistent” in opposing expanding gambling in Texas and told a caller that he believes most lawmakers share his view. “If gambling was the answer, Nevada would be flush,” [...]
