To occupy, Resist and Produce! — MST Fairs
Landless Rural Workers' Movement | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-16
The fairs of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement celebrate their struggle. After occupying and producing, they resist daily, sharing the culture of the MST and the production of healthy food with the people of the city. The MST states "We are still struggling because we believe that another model of production is the basis of a free and just society." | Eating is a political act.
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Top Global Scientists Call for 'Profound Food System Transformation' to Combat Extreme Malnutrition
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-16
A multi-part World Health Organization report published Monday in the British medical journal The Lancet detailed the need to urgently transform the world's failing food systems to combat the coexistence of undernourishment and obesity—or the "double burden of malnutrition." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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'The Bold Approach We Need': New Booker Ag Bill Includes First-Ever National Factory Farm Moratorium
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-16
Advocates for the environment, corporate accountability, and public health on Monday welcomed Sen. Cory Booker's new agricultural reform bill—which would impose a first-ever national moratorium on factory farms—as "the bold approach we need." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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One third of poorer countries face both undernutrition and obesity: WHO report
news.un.org | 2019-12-15
With one in three low and middle-income countries facing the two extremes of malnutrition — undernutrition and obesity — the UN's health agency WHO is calling for a new approach to deal with rapidly changing food systems.
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Homeland Security memo exposes appalling medical mistreatment of immigrants in US custody
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
Men, women and children have been subject to delayed treatment for medical and mental health conditions, unnecessary surgeries, forcible medication, and other mistreatment resulting in unnecessary suffering and death.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/imm2…
The Science of Lethality
Joan Roelofs | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds.
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'Air bridge' vaccination operation begins for Ebola-hit communities in DR Congo
news.un.org | 2019-12-13
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen an increase in the number of reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic virus Ebola linked to ongoing violence by armed groups targeting remote communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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10 ex-NFL players accused of defrauding healthcare program
Michael Balsamo | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-13
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten former NFL players were charged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the league's health care benefit program by submitting false claims for medical equipment, including devices used on horses, the Justice Department said Thursday. The players were charged in two separate indictments filed in federal court in Kentucky, accusing them of …
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South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in 'race against time'
news.un.org | 2019-12-12
The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future.
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Teaching assistants in Decatur, Il. struggle for better healthcare
Nick Goodell | liberationnews.org | 2019-12-12
"DFTA all the way!"
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Graduate student workers on strike at Harvard
Phebe Eckfeldt | workers.org | 2019-12-12
Cambridge, Mass. On Dec. 3, 4,000 graduate student workers went on strike at Harvard University at both the Cambridge and Boston campuses. These members of Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers are fighting for a contract that includes better pay; comprehensive, affordable health care; improved family leave stipends; and protections . . . | Continue reading Graduate student workers on strike at Harvard at Workers.org…
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Universal Health Coverage will 'drive progress' on 2030 Development Agenda
news.un.org | 2019-12-11
Last September world leaders at the United Nations endorsed an ambitious political declaration on universal health coverage, "reaffirming that health is a human right", Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday in his message for International Universal Health Coverage Day.
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"Shame!" Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-11
Democracy Now! was broadcasting live from the United Nations climate summit in Madrid, Spain, when hundreds of climate advocates and people's movements at the U.N. climate action summit staged a protest inside the conference venue. As the demonstration unfolds, we speak with Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International; Nigerian climate activist Nnimmo Bassey with Health of Mother Earth Foundation; and indigenous climate activist Daiara Tukano from Brazil.
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On Human Rights Day, Let's Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Martin Fleck | progressive.org | 2019-12-09
A nuclear war would create one of the worst humanitarian crises imaginable, one for which no nation would have an adequate emergency or health response.
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Three Ways the "Fairness for All Act" Doesn't Protect LGBTQ People from Discrimination
Ian S. Thompson | aclu.org | 2019-12-09
On Friday, Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and | several of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced | the so-called "Fairness for All Act." The bill is being described by its | supporters as a compromise that protects both LGBTQ people and religious | liberty. | In reality, the bill facilitates the Trump | administration's ongoing efforts to give a greenlight to those who would turn | LGBTQ people away from jobs, health care, housing, even taxpayer-funded | programs, simply because of who they are. The bill also weakens some | longstanding protections in federal and state laws…
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Bronx speakout demands closure of fake abortion clinic
Liberation staff | liberationnews.org | 2019-12-04
Dozens stopped to listen and speak with the protesters about reproductive justice and the need for affordable public healthcare.
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What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-12-03
Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea.
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"No healthcare, no peace!": Philadelphia airline catering workers join nationwide actions
Neri Felipe | liberationnews.org | 2019-11-26
Airport catering workers across the country protested on November 26, after American Airlines refusal to meet the workers' demands for health insurance.
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CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
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Warren's Head Tax Is Not More Popular Than A Payroll Tax
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
As we know by now, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare head tax proposal is a regressive mess ( I, II, III, IV). Warren's team knows this. The goal of the proposal i…
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