(2018-08-28). SF SEIU Workers Speak Against Systemic Racism, Firing Of DPH Director Garcia & Callahan. indybay.org 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.
(2018-08-28). River Health Day on the San Lorenzo River. indybay.org 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…
(2018-08-27). US AIDS Policy Reflects Religious Conservatives' Ties to Trump Officials. truthout.org 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…
(2018-08-27). Government Should Pay for Migrant Families' Mental Health Services, Lawsuit Says. truthout.org 
| 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…
(2018-08-27). Burning Man as We Knew It Is Dead — Here's How Its White Culture and the One Percent Killed It. alternet.org 
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. . .
(2018-08-27). Gaza Ministry of Health: No Response from Donors on Fuel. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-27). At least Trump is not a 'zombie' telling 'beautiful lies' — Tech investor Peter Thiel. rt.com 
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.
(2018-08-25). Medics warn of dangerous 'kissing bug' disease as 300,000 Americans already infected. rt.com 
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. |
(2018-08-24). Not just Flint: Schools across America find lead in their water. peoplesworld.org 
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…
(2018-08-23). Grab 'em by the… parts? Health website says 'parts' and 'front hole' better than 'vagina'. rt.com 
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.
(2018-08-21). Headlines for August 21, 2018. democracynow.org In Historic Letter, Pope Condemns Catholic Church Sex Abuse and Cover-Up, Trump to Announce Massive Rollback of Obama-Era Coal Regulations, In Racist Comment, Trump Says Hispanic Border Agent "Speaks Perfect English", Taliban Fires Rockets at Afghan Presidential Palace, India: Death Toll Rises to 400 in Kerala's Historic Flooding, French Oil Company Total Withdraws from Iran in Wake of U.S. Sanctions, Microsoft: Russian Hackers Targeting Conservative Think Tanks, Michigan Health Director Faces Involuntary Manslaughter Trial over Flint Water Crisis, NYT: #MeToo Leader Asia Argento Paid Off Her Sexual Assault Accus…
(2018-08-16). "I'm Bringing My Bullhorn to Congress": Rashida Tlaib Poised to Become First Muslim Congresswoman. democracynow.org 
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.
(2018-08-02). Trump Administration's Breastmilk War Exposes Backchannel Politics in Health Care. progressive.org Nipplegate has a long history in the Global South.
(2018-07-23). Venezuela to Invest €293m to Modernise Public Health System as National Nurses' Strike Continues. venezuelanalysis.com Maduro has called for a "revolution within the revolution" in the health sector.