Growing Homelessness in America (tags)
Washington's indifference to a growing problem
Berkeley public housing residents demand resignations (tags)
Berkeley's Public Housing Residents Say "Hell No" To The Privatization Of Their Housing & Demand Resignation Of Housing Director!
Progressive agenda for Obama, by Amiri Baraka (tags)
The following are a few exploratory planks of a document that shd be added to by the willing and serve as a basis for a mass supported document to present to Obama.
The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It (tags)
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee blasted insurance giant CIGNA for failing to approve a liver transplant one week earlier for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who tragically died just hours after CIGNA relented and agreed to the procedure following a massive national outcry. “CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro called the final outcome ‘a horrific tragedy that demonstrates what is so fundamentally wrong with our health care system today. Insurance companies have a stranglehold on our health. Their first priority is to make profits for their shareholders – and the way they do that is by denying care." "It is simply not possible to organize major protests every time a multi-billion corporation like CIGNA denies care that has been recommended by a physician," DeMoro said. “Having insurance is not the same as receiving needed care. We need a fundamental change in our healthcare system that takes control away from the insurance giants and places it where it belongs – in the hands of the medical professionals, the patients, and their families."
Building Bridges Radio: Taxi Spyware and National Health Care (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK
Building Bridges Radio: Rep John Conyers-National Health Care – The Time Has Come (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 29 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
US elections: Their future and ours (tags)
Progressive support for Kerry will virtually eliminate the Left as any meaningful option in these elections. Even worse, it will weaken if not eliminate any mass protests like Seattle (1999) from the political agenda. The "Anybody but Bush" slogan will put the progressives on the side of war, ALCA and the social exclusion camp. Of course there will be peace demonstrations on March 20, which Kerry will ignore. And there will be debate by progressives over program at the Democratic Convention in Boston, but that will be window dressing. Kerry will respond not to the small minority of dissident delegates but to the 1000 wealthy campaign contributors who will provide him with the millions to finance his electronic campaign to get the 25% of the electorate necessary to win.