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Socialist Party Candidate Alexander Calls Obamacare Another Corporate Giveaway Billy Wharton 2012-06-29 10:12 AM
Obama’s policy was based on the original sin of allowing the pharmaceutical companies off the hook. He then followed this up by pledging public funds to subsidize junk healthcare plans, coercing Americans into purchasing these plans and silencing the voices of single-payer healthcare advocates. Obamacare is not healthcare reform; it is just another corporate giveaway by the Obama administration. (text/plain + 2 comments)

O'BS Insurance Profiteering Health Care Approved Socialized Medicine Now 2012-06-28 7:55 AM
In a 5 to 4 decision, the US Supreme Court upheld the insurance profiteering scam the Democrats are promoting as healthcare when it has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with maximizing insurance industry profits. The vote was Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor for, vs Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Yes, we still have to pay $700 a month to Kaiser if we are 60-64 plus $25 to see the doctor and $10 for lab tests. SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS WHAT WE NEED TO PUT AN END TO ALL THAT GREED. (text/plain + 1 comment)

California Calls for Austerity for Disabled Children Nathaniel Murphy 2012-06-05 12:29 PM
In the Budget Proposal for 2012-2013, Governor Jerry Brown proposes to defund California Children's Services' Medical Therapy Program by establishing harsh and restrictive financial requirements for the families of the disabled children who rely on this vital service. (text/plain)

Wendy's Caught in Multiple Violations of State and Federal Laws Disability Watch 2012-05-08 6:54 PM
Wendy's new policy: park your service animals outside. (text/plain + 1 comment)

A Challenge to All Supporters of Medical Marijuana Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine 2012-05-05 8:58 PM
Advocates of medical marijuana need to act NOW! Send e-mails to the White House and the Department of Justice to demand that President Obama and Attorney General Holder stop the concerted campaign to use federal enforcement agents to put medical marijuana dispensaries out of business, and return to Obama's campaign promise not to use federal law against medical marijuana in states where it is legal. (text/plain)

Gustavo Arellano: How Mexican Food Conquered the U.S. Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine 2012-05-05 8:07 PM

Gustavo Arellano, who in the last decade has risen from food editor at the O.C. Weekly in Orange County to investigative reporter at the paper and author of the popular syndicated column “¡Ask a Mexican!,” a witty send-up of anti-Mexican stereotypes published in at least 38 media outlets, came to San Diego April 11 to promote his latest book, "Taco U.S.A.: How Mexican Food Conquered America." (image/jpeg)

Health Care and the Supremes Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine 2012-05-05 7:56 PM
When the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act in late March, the vicious hostility of their comments signaled their intent not only to rule so-called "Obamacare" unconstitutional but to fundamentally recast the Court's jurisprudence. It's clear from the health-care hearings and from previous decisions like Citizens United that the Court's five-member Right-wing majority wants to return to the days before and during the New Deal when the Court quite consciously saw its mission as protecting the 1 percent by ruling any meaningful attempt at regulating the economy unconstitutional. (text/plain)

Fast Food Blues Thomas Riggins 2012-04-07 1:03 PM
New research links fast food consumption with depression. (text/plain)

Remembering Garda Ghista Stephen Lendman 2012-02-25 12:35 AM
activism (text/plain)

SB 810 Single Payer Healthcare Needs Your Phone Calls Today Single Payer Now 2012-01-27 4:40 AM
SB 810, the single payer healthcare bill in the California Senate, needs just 2 more votes from the 5 abstainers listed below to pass before January 31, 2012. SB 810 is the only real solution to the healthcare crisis that saves the state billions, guarantees healthcare for all Californians, and controls costs, while eliminating the denials of care and restrictions of provider choice imposed by private insurance companies. (text/plain)

Genetech's Herceptin Increases Risk of Heart Defects Shows Animal Testing is Unreliable 2012-01-24 1:18 PM
The breast cancer drug called Herceptin manufactured by Genentech has shown to increase the risks of heart defects and cardiotoxicity in older patients. This supports evidence provided by the ALF that states animal tests are not only cruel, though are also ineffective at determining the risk to humans. (text/plain)

Health Care for the 99% April Ingram 2012-01-09 4:40 PM
Activists march for healthcare reform with mock funeral procession, representing those who died from insurance denials. (text/plain)

Nanotech’s Solyndra moment: Big gov’t gears up to fund microscopic science Daily Caller 2012-01-03 8:35 AM
The failed $534 million federal investment in Solyndra hasn’t stopped Washington from trying to finance the “next big thing” in technology. New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and two House members are moving forward with a $50 million proposal for nanotechnology research funding at an upstate New York university where another nanotech research center has already existed for a decade. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Medical Self Defense & the Black Panther Party --An interview w/ Alondra Nelson Angola 3 News 2011-12-22 9:55 PM

Alondra Nelson, the author of 'Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination' writes that “the Party’s focus on health care was both practical and ideological.” On a practical level, the BPP provided free community health care services. Simultaneously, the BPP railed against the medical-industrial complex, declaring that health care was “a right and not a privilege.” (image/jpeg)

Riverside; County gives attorneys go-ahead to sue dispensaries in unincorporated areas Marcel Honoré 2011-12-20 3:19 PM
Riverside County Board of Supervisors are threatening to sue medical cannabis dispensaries in unincorporated regions of Riverside County such as Thousand Palms. When will the anti-medical cannabis Inquisition learn that they are attacking their own voting bloc? (text/plain)

Chaos in San Diego's Medical Marijuana Community Leo E. Laurence, J.D. 2011-11-15 5:28 PM

A report on conflicts within San Diego's medical marijuana community between the grass-roots Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and the dispensaries' trade group, Patients' Care Association (PCA) — and conflicts within the PCA between locals and an out-of-town organizer they accuse of trying to take over. (image/jpeg)

When Goliath Wins: The Triumph of Redevelopment in Los Angeles Leslie Radford 2011-11-13 8:48 PM
On Tuesday at 8:00 a.m., the South Central Farmers, their supporters, and the residents of the Central-Alameda neighborhood will confront the Los Angeles City Council in its chambers one more time to try to save the Farm and save the neighborhood. in the unlikely event they succeed, they might save the City. (text/html + 1 comment)

BTL:Vermont Farmer Builds Model for Sustainable Local Food System Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2011-11-12 5:12 AM
Interview with Ben Hewitt, best-selling author and farmer, conducted by Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

The "Stand Up To Cancer" People Are Lying Fred Snider 2011-11-08 3:39 PM
Cancer is usually a sign that you are overly polluting your body with unnatural substances, so the key is to stop as much of that as is possible, not to give them a lot of money to create more unnatural stuff to further pollute your body. (text/plain)

BTL:House Passes Bill that Denies Women Emergency Abortion Services Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2011-10-20 5:33 AM
Interview with Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, conducted by Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Single Payer Health Insurance Should Have Television Commercials Edward Alexander 2011-10-03 1:58 PM
If you want to have single payer health insurance then you must advertise on television. (text/plain)

What's the Beef? Thomas Riggins 2011-09-19 10:39 AM
The USDA sets stronger regulations on E. coli in ground beef. (text/plain)

Ron Paul : Freedom to Die nobody 2011-09-16 11:34 PM

A riff on a Krugman column. (image/jpeg)

Localicious Gala: 30 Years, 30 Chefs, 30 Farmers Santa Monica Farmer's Market 2011-09-06 4:57 PM

Good Food Festival Santa Monica Farmers Market & FamilyFarmed.or 2011-09-01 10:45 AM

Autonomy under attack: Rawesome Foods raided Who's your farmer? 2011-08-05 4:00 AM
Rawesome Farm Buying Club was Raided by SWAT and FDA agents. Nearly all of their raw foods were seized. (text/plain + 1 comment)

And the Winner Is... The Public Sector David Morris 2011-07-29 6:11 AM
Conventional wisdom insists that the private sector is much more efficient than government-run programs. David Morris shows that privatization is actually more expensive when it comes to Medicare, student loans and the military. (text/plain)

Need overwhelms Southern California food pantries repost 2011-07-18 7:59 AM
Los Angeles and Orange Counties, long known as centers of Southern California wealth and glamour, are now home to more than half a million people seeking help from food pantries. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Hemp Music Festival in Balboa Park Leo E. Laurence, J.D. 2011-07-17 8:48 PM

While music festivals supporting medical marijuana are common in southern California, it was rare when longtime cannabis (marijuana) activist James Dean Stacy produced an event focused on hemp in Balboa Park on July 9. ?Hemp is the cousin of cannabis that has no THC in it,? explained Stacy. (image/jpeg)

Riverside New School & Medical Center to Remain Closed repost 2011-07-06 7:43 AM
California Governor Jerry Brown has passed a new brutal austerity budget that reduces state spending by $15 billion, bringing it to its lowest level in 29 years. Among the casualties of these and previous cuts are a new high school and new hospital in Riverside, which were intended to relieve the disastrous overcrowding of the local school district and severe shortage of doctors for the region. (text/plain)

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