River Health Day on the San Lorenzo River
Coastal Watershed Council | indybay.org | 2018-08-28
Santa Cruz Riverwalk on the west side of the San Lorenzo River and upstream of the Laurel Street Bridge. We will be meeting behind the Sherwin Williams building located at 408 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Location on GoogleMaps: www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B058…: 0x0!7e2!8m2!3d36.9707393!4d-122.0235138…
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Medicare for All: From Demand to Reality
PASMC | indybay.org | 2018-08-28
Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo | 300 E. Santa Inez Avenue | San Mateo, CA 94402…
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SF SEIU Workers Speak Against Systemic Racism, Firing Of DPH Director Garcia & Callahan
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2018-08-28
San Francisco SEIU 1021 workers spoke out on August 22, 2018 about the resignation and or firing of Department of Public Health director Barbara Garcia, the racist discrimination, harassment and workplace bullying and the role of CCSF Human Resources director Micki Callahan who was personally involved in the removal of Garcia. Workers said that Callahan should be the next to go.
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Are American Workers Really Opposed to Socialism?
Chris Wright, History News Network | alternet.org | 2018-08-27
One of the most remarkable demonstrations of the deep-seated radicalism of "ordinary people" has been all but forgotten. | At a time when the American population is radicalizing, when popular movements are coalescing around "radical" demands–Medicare for All, the abolition of ICE, tuition-free college, in general the demand to make society livable for everyone–it can be useful to draw collective inspiration from the past. Irrupt. . .
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Burning Man as We Knew It Is Dead — Here's How Its White Culture and the One Percent Killed It
Valerie Vande Panne, Independent Media Institute | alternet.org | 2018-08-27
Stay home and do your own thing in your own backyard instead. | I spend a lot of my time writing and thinking about ways to foster a healthier world, economically, socially, environmentally, and spiritually. Burning Man has always seemed like something I should support. I have good friends who go every year, and one of my dearest friends, whom I have known since I was 14 years old, is one of Burning Man's leaders who not only helps run the show during. . .
alternet.org/local-peace-economy/why-bur…
Government Should Pay for Migrant Families' Mental Health Services, Lawsuit Says
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-27
| From her holding cell, the Salvadoran mother could see her daughter across the room, surrounded by other children. The mother and daughter had been separated days earlier at the border, among the hundreds of migrant families caught up in the government's new "zero tolerance" policy. | After a guard left her daughter's cell open one day, the 15-year-old slipped out and brought her mother a small bottle of water. | "Our fingers touched through the chain-linked fence," the mother, identified as R.M. in court filings, said in her account to lawyers. "I told her that everything was going to be OK…
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US AIDS Policy Reflects Religious Conservatives' Ties to Trump Officials
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-27
Evangelical activist Shepherd Smith has spent more than three decades cultivating relationships with leading AIDS researchers and policymakers to promote abstinence-only sex education. Those connections now could influence government programs and funding within the Trump administration. | Among the most prominent: Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smith said he enthusiastically urged administration officials to pick his longtime friend and associate, who now oversees one of the agencies that fund the multibillion-dollar international prevention and treatment program known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). | And within the White House itself are certain aides the activist has known for years, as he acknowledged during a series of interviews with Kaiser Health News. They include Katy Talento, a leading conservative voice on health care policy, and staffers in Vice President Mike Pence's office who court…
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Gaza Ministry of Health: No Response from Donors on Fuel
INA | imemc.org | 2018-08-27
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Qedra, said that there has been no response from donors, to provide fuel for the facilities of the Ministry. The Ministry has previously issued warnings regarding a shortage of fuel, which threatens the provision of health services to citizens. During …
At least Trump is not a 'zombie' telling 'beautiful lies' — Tech investor Peter Thiel
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-27
US President Donald Trump may be a "rude, mean person" but he is a "very healthy corrective" to a culture of political correctness and ideological platitudes, former Silicon Valley magnate Peter Thiel has said.
rt.com/usa/437004-thiel-trump-zombie-bra…
Beware the Race Reductionist
Briahna Gray | theintercept.com | 2018-08-26
A hostage situation has emerged on the left. And progressive policies like "Medicare for All," a $15 minimum wage, free public education, a "Green New Deal," and even net neutrality, are the captives. | The captors? Bad faith claims of bigotry. | According to an increasingly popular narrative among the center-left, a dispiriting plurality of progressives are "class reductionists" — people who believe that economic equality is a cure-all for societal ills, and who, as a result, would neglect policy prescriptions which seek to remedy identity-based disparities. | Of course, race and class are so interwoven that any political project that aims to resolve one while ignoring the other does a disservice to both. As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presumptive leader of the progressive movement, put it this spring when I asked him about the never-ending race versus class debates: "It's…
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Medics warn of dangerous 'kissing bug' disease as 300,000 Americans already infected
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-25
Health experts are warning that the potentially lethal parasitic disease spread by 'kissing bugs' has taken hold in the US, with more than 300,000 Americans contracting it.
rt.com/usa/436855-kissing-bug-disease-us…
Not just Flint: Schools across America find lead in their water
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-24
WASHINGTON–It's not just Flint. Prompted by the public health catastrophe in that Michigan city four years ago, lawmakers asked the non-partisan Government Accountability Office to see how many school systems tested for high levels of lead in their drinking water. After all, public health speciali…
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Grab 'em by the… parts? Health website says 'parts' and 'front hole' better than 'vagina'
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-23
If you've ever been bothered or offended by the words 'vagina' and 'penis,' you'll be happy to hear that a San Francisco-based healthcare website has some interesting new ideas about how we should be referring to our genitalia.
rt.com/usa/436686-front-hole-vagina-heal…
"I'm Bringing My Bullhorn to Congress": Rashida Tlaib Poised to Become First Muslim Congresswoman
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-16
Detroit Democratic congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib is poised to become the first Palestinian-American woman and first Muslim woman to serve in Congress, after winning the Democratic primary for John Conyers's old House seat in Michigan last week. Tlaib is a Democratic Socialist who supports the Palestinian right of return and a one-state solution, Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and abolishing ICE. The child of immigrants, she has spoken out against the Trump administration's travel bans. We speak with Rashida Tlaib about her historic victory and her plans for Congress.
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/16/im_bringi…
Trump Administration's Breastmilk War Exposes Backchannel Politics in Health Care
Michelle Chen | progressive.org | 2018-08-02
Nipplegate has a long history in the Global South.
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Venezuela to Invest €293m to Modernise Public Health System as National Nurses' Strike Continues
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-23
Maduro has called for a "revolution within the revolution" in the health sector.
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