(2019-08-22). 'Just False': Sanders Campaign Hits Back After WaPo Describes Pro-Labor Proposal as Change to Medicare for All Plan. commondreams.org "We've said from day one that any savings employers gain from Medicare for All must be passed on to union workers in the form of higher wages and benefits. We know that because Bernie wrote the damn bill." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-22). Los Angeles County Votes to Stop Construction of New Jail-Like Facility, Adding Momentum to National Abolition Movement. theintercept.com 
"A jail is a jail is a jail. It is not enough to change the name of the facility," said LA Board of Supervisors member Heidi Solis.
(2019-08-22). Planned Parenthood Feels Squeeze After Quitting Federal Program. truthdig.com 
SALT LAKE CITY—Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping financial reserves, intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after its decision to quit a $260 million federal family planning program in an abortion dispute with the Trump administration. | The fallout is especially intense in Utah, where Planned Parenthood has been the only provider participating in the nearly 50-year-old Title X family planning program and will now lose about $2 million yearly in federal funds that helped 39,000 mostly low-income, uninsur…
(2019-08-22). Severely Mentally Ill Patients Given Eviction Notices at ZSFGH. indybay.org Rally and protest to stop the eviction of the severely mentally Ill at the Behavior Health Center's Adult Residential Facility on ZSFGH's Campus in San Francisco!
(2019-08-22). Kamala Harris Has Nothing to Offer Progressives. truthdig.com If the California senator is already backing away from Medicare for All, why should we trust that she's committed to a Green New Deal?
(2019-08-22). SFGH Rally To Stop the DPH from displacing the mentally ill from Behavioral Health Center. indybay.org SFGH Behavioral Health Center at 887 Potrero St. between 21st. & Potrero at 12: 30 PM.
(2019-08-22). Back to thoughts and prayers: Donald Trump abandons support for enhanced background checks. nationofchange.org Just two weeks after the three mass shootings that left over 30 people dead, President Trump is already going back on his initial support for laws that could help strengthen gun control. | Although on August 5th Trump seemed to suggest his support for the implementation of "red flag laws" — laws that allow law enforcement to take guns from individuals that have used threatening language — when speaking to the press this week, Trump change course to say that he is concerned about "mental health issue" in regards to gun violence. | "It's the people that pull the trigger, it's not the gun that pulls the…
(2019-08-22). Why the LGBTQ Community Should Be Worried About Trump's Gag Rule. truthout.org | | The Trump administration is coming after your local family planning clinic. You might have been there recently — maybe it was a Planned Parenthood health center, your local health department or an independent clinic. It's a place that teens and others can go to get affordable birth control and other kinds of health care services, like screenings for cancer or sexually transmitted infections (STIs). | One reason those places can afford to provide free or low-cost care is a federal program call…
(2019-08-22). Water Rights Group Calls on Newark Officials to Resist Privatization of City's Water Supply Amid Lead Crisis. commondreams.org Pointing to the public health crisis that ensued in Flint, Michigan after the city turned over control of its water to the state, water rights advocates called on leaders in Newark, New Jersey to retain their authority over the city's water as they confront their own lead crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-21). Trump administration refuses to vaccinate migrants in detention centers. wsws.org The decision to run filthy and disease-ridden detention camps is part of a definite strategy by Trump's fascistic advisers.
(2019-08-21). Trump's Labor Pick Kept Workers in Pain. progressive.org The President has had poor luck with labor secretaries, and now he is poised to nominate Eugene Scalia, whose anti-regulatory advocacy two decades ago helped fuel today's opioid epidemic. That's not the best credential for a future labor secretary.
(2019-08-21). Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but not necessarily a risk to human health. un.org Tiny plastic particles known as microplastics are "everywhere — including in our drinking-water", but they are not necessarily a risk to human health, UN experts said on Thursday.
(2019-08-21). Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer. thenation.com Utah Is Spending Extra on Health Care So More People Can Suffer…
(2019-08-21). Amid Warnings of Recession, Trump Proposes More Tax Cuts for the Rich. truthout.org | | The Trump administration has floated a new round of tax cuts for the rich and slashing the payroll tax used to fund Social Security and Medicare to ease worries of a recession, which the White House insists is not happening despite dire warnings from economists and the stock market. | Despite the stock market plummeting over concerns of a loo…
(2019-08-20). Negotiating legally-binding agreement to provide future generations with a 'healthy, resilient and productive ocean'. un.org While the world's oceans contain some 200,000 identified living species, the actual numbers could reach the millions ≠ ≠— all exposed to the dangers of climate change, pollution and over-exploitation. To stem these threats, the United Nations is meeting to negotiate a treaty that would protect three-quarters of the earth's surface by 2030.
(2019-08-20). Brussels rejects Boris Johnson's call for Irish backstop to be scrapped. thecanary.co Boris Johnson has been rebuffed by Brussels after demanding major changes in a new Brexit deal. | The prime minister set out his call for the backstop — the contingency plan to avoid a hard border with Ireland — to be scrapped from the divorce deal ahead of the October 31 Brexit deadline. | But European Council president Donald Tusk defended the measure and warned that those seeking to replace it would risk a return to a hard border on the island of Ireland. | The backstop is an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland unless and until an alternative is found. Those against the backst…
(2019-08-20). Anti-choice MPs line up to derail abortion law reform in NSW. greenleft.org.au 
abortion rights Pip HinmanIssue 1234 Australia NSW abortion law reform SydneyThose opposing the move to treat abortion as a health matter rather than a crime have made their views known —…
(2019-08-19). SPLC, allies sue ICE for ignoring medical, mental health and disability needs of detained immigrants. splcenter.org Faour Abdallah Fraihat, who ran a successful construction business for years in California, is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
(2019-08-19). Health Care Imperialism: Looting the World's Doctors. dissidentvoice.org To poach and rely on highly skilled foreign workers from poor countries in the public sector is akin to the crime of theft. — "Migration of Health Workers: An Unmanaged Crisis," The Lancet, May 28, 2005 What is striking about the tyranny of the medical industrial complex is not only its unconscionable oppression of the …
(2019-08-18). How The Mainstream Media Fuels America's Income Inequality Machine. therealnews.com 
From medicare for all to neoliberal tax subsidies for major corporations the mainstream media often bolsters the notion that a more fair and equitable society is not possible…
(2019-08-17). Milwaukee VA workers fight union busting. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Fifty Veterans Affairs workers and supporters rallied outside the Zablocki VA hospital August 12 to protest union-busting, attacks on high-quality public veteran healthcare, and bad faith bargaining by the VA administration. | The rally was organized by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3 and supported by the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Milwaukee Area Labor Council, Veterans for Peace and elected leaders including Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore and U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin. | AFGE members and representatives detailed shocking accounts of the ex…
(2019-08-16). Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims. theintercept.com Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen and scrub some the most gruesome, hateful, and heinous posts that make their way onto the social network and its photo-sharing subsidiary, Instagram. They are required to view as many as 800 pieces of disturbing content in a single shift, and routinely turn to on-site counselors to help cope with the procession of stomach-turning images, videos, and text. But some members of this invisible army have complained, in a statement widely circulated within Facebook, that the…
(2019-08-15). The Challenges of Breastfeeding as a Black Person. aclu.org How our workplaces and healthcare system create barriers to breastfeeding. | The fight to protect individual choices about reproductive care, including breastfeeding, is an ongoing battle. The central lesson of the reproductive justice movement is that choice means little without access. That lesson applies equally to breastfeeding. | Though laws, in the workplace and other contexts, are in place to protect the right to breastfeed, many low-income women and w…
(2019-08-13). Expanding Involuntary Confinement is Not the Answer to Solve Gun Violence. aclu.org Institutionalizing people against their will is usually a mistake. | In the wake of last weekend's tragic shootings, President Trump did what he does best: stoked fear and cast blame. He proclaimed that "we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence and make sure those people, not only get treatment, but when necessary, involuntary confinement." | There are two things wrong with the idea of involuntary commitment as a solution to gun violence. First, focusing on people with identifiable mental disabilities won't help. The data is clear: men…
(2019-08-09). Over 132,400 Opposed Trump's Anti-Trans Health Care Plan. aclu.org A proposed rule would undermine protections for transgender people and others facing discriminatory denials of health care and insurance coverage. | The Trump Administration has shown it will stop at nothing to undermine access to health care for marginalized communities. Most recently, the Administration has proposed to undermine critical protections against sex discrimination in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the Health Care Rights Law. Instead of combatting discrimination in accessing health care a…
(2019-08-09). Blood money: How big pharma created the opioid crisis. liberationnews.org 
The opioid epidemic could only have occurred in a society where profit is king.
(2019-08-07). A Modest Proposal: Taking Aim at Firearm Violence with Gun Insurance. progressive.org It's no panacea, but it can help heal our wounded nation.
(2019-07-30). Venezuela: Six Chavista Militants Killed in Fresh Rural Violence. venezuelanalysis.com Landowner violence continues to plague the Venezuelan countryside.
(2019-06-19). House Casts Historic Vote to Repeal Authorization for Endless War. peaceaction.org Washington, D.C. — June 19, 2019 — In response to the House of Representatives passing H.R. 2740 (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020), which includes language to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) eight months after …