SF SEIU Workers Speak Against Systemic Racism, Firing Of DPH Director Garcia & Callahan
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2018-08-27
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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Medicare for All: From Demand to Reality
PASMC | indybay.org | 2018-08-27
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SF DPH Director Garcia Out-SEIU1021 Members Want HR Director Miki Callahan Out Now
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2018-08-27
After regular rallies and protests CCSF Director of Public Health Barbara Garcia has been forced out for covering up bullying, systemic racism and corruption in the DPH. SEIU 1021 workers are now demanding that Human Resource Director Micki Callahan also be removed for systematic racist practices, allowing bullying and harassment of city workers in many departments. Callahan has also allowed the falsification of testimony and anonymous documents against SEIU 1021 Potrero Hill Health Center steward Cheryl Thornton who was improperly removed from her job.
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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 Senator 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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Trump Managed to Botch a Photo-op with Ohio Kids by Coloring His American Flag Incorrectly
Bob Brigham, Raw Story | alternet.org | 2018-08-26
President Trump toured the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus with First Lady Melania Trump | Embattled President Donald Trump failed spectacularly at a simple photo-op with children in Ohio on Friday. President Trump toured the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus with First Lady Melania Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. As part of the tour, "they took part in a time-honored tradition: sitting in tiny desks alongside ador. . .
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Another Deadly Pandemic is Coming — And the US Is Not Ready
The Conversation | alternet.org | 2018-08-26
It is not a matter of if, but when, the next disease will sweep the world with deadly and costly consequences. | One hundred years after the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, global health leadership stands at a crossroads. The United States continues to expand its policy of isolationism at a. . .
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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.
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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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New Zealand Nurses Organisation lashes out at critics on social media
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-24
The union posted an inflammatory statement on Facebook aimed at intimidating opposition to its sellout of health workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/24/nzno…
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.
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"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.
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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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Building the Movement for Medicare for All
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2018-08-01
This week was the 53rd anniversary of Medicare, created in the middle of the social agitation of the 1960s. Benjamin Day of Healthcare-NOW! talks about how today, we are in the middle of similar upheaval.
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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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