How Organizers Made Survivors' Incarceration an Issue in the Cuomo/Nixon Race
Shared by britney | truthout.org | 2018-09-12
For the Democratic Party, it's been a tense primary season. Across the country, entrenched Democratic incumbents have been faced with progressive challengers. In New York, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has found his progressive challenger in actor and activist Cynthia Nixon. Cuomo has clashed with Nixon over policies that many progressive candidates are demanding, such as the implementation of a statewide Medicare for All system, but another issue has gained promi…
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Poor and unhealthy: Australia's artists in social free-fall
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-12
Professional performing artists and support crews have a 74-year average life expectancy, ten years less than the general Australian population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/12/fttg…

Medical Tourist Arrivals In Iran Doubles
Tehran Times | iranian.com | 2018-09-11
Medical tourist arrivals in the country has nearly doubled in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year, corresponding to spring 2018, from a year earlier, said an official with the Ministry of Health. Saeid Hashemzadeh who presides over the ministry's medical tourism department told ISNA in an interview published on Sunday, "Based […] | The post Medical Tourist Arrivals In Iran Doubles appeared first on The Iranian.
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National Grid's lockout of Massachusetts gas workers in third month
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-11
Locked-out workers have suffered through the summer with no pay, health insurance that is either nonexistent, inadequate or exorbitantly expensive, and isolation from workers, which has been enforced by the unions.
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Striking Chicago hotel workers speak out on fight for wages, health care
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-10
The WSWS spoke to striking hotel workers on the picket lines in downtown Chicago Saturday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/10/hote…

Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-30
The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.
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