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The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game
We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge
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Hospital greed caused nurse shortage, not COVID-19
The country’s largest nurse labor union maintains that hospitals are deliberately understaffing units and forcing nurses to work long hours to increase profits
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California Could Become the First US State to Offer Universal Health Care
The bills to create and fund universal healthcare face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies
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Teachers in Chicago Are Up Against a Wall of Neoliberal Cruelty
The current struggle is a symptom of the larger problem of neoliberal school reform — a virus whose only vaccine is democracy
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Lessons Learned from the St. Vincent Hospital Nurses’ Strike
Three lessons from the 301-day nurses' strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester
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Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates
The reactionary “justices” seem more inclined to shield corporate profits and red states’ rights than to protect the health and safety of the people
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Massachusetts nurses win safe staffing gains with historic strike
“This is an enormous victory for our patients and our members, and it is a testament to the grit and determination of every nurse who walked that line"
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Boston teachers union demands better for students and staff
The Boston Teachers Union is demanding medical-grade KN95 masks for all students and staff, and that remote learning days count towards required instruction
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Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
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Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge
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Cuba now exporting Covid vaccines
After immunizing its own population, Cuba’s own developed vaccines are to be marketed internationally
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Activism will be Key to Overcoming the Covid-19 Crisis
It is only through bold action by political leaders that the Covid-19 crisis will be ended. It is only through people’s organising that we’ll make leaders take that bold action
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The Highest Attainable Standard of Health Is a Fundamental Right
Countries such as the United States and India were hit hard because their public health infrastructure had been weakened and their private health systems were simply not capable of managing a crisis of this proportion
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Abortion Rights Activists Fight Back With Mutual Aid and Direct Action in 2022
Activists from around the country are not losing hope. Instead, they are strategizing about how to turn the tide
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U.S. Scientists Develop Low-Cost Shot to Inoculate Global South
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Those responsible for the opioid-related deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans are yet to be held accountable
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Constitutional Issues that Underlay the Roe vs. Wade Decision
The push to abolish abortions stems from a moral judgement that pre-born babies are human beings with a right to life. The first amendment of the Constitution prohibits establishment of religion
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Vaccine Passports Are Here to Stay. Why Worry?
The key to reanimating public life may also be the linchpin of a global surveillance network
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Why Leftists are Joining Hands With the Right in Opposing Vaccine Mandates
In these days of rampant inequality, attacks on American democracy, climate crisis and a seemingly never-ending pandemic, toxic individualism is giving the Common Good a run for its money
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Purdue Pharma/ Sackler Family Fails in End Run around Justice
In a seismic victory for justice and accountability, the Sackler family will be forced to confront the pain and devastation they have allegedly caused
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The Coronavirus Pandemic has Widened Global Inequalities
The prices asked by Big Pharma for Covid vaccines are exorbitant
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Vaccinating 200 million Americans
The Commonwealth Fund finds that without Biden’s vaccination drive, a million and a half Americans would have died this year
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Kaiser Permanente in COVID Time: Health Care and Our Heroes
Today, health care workers, including the NUHW’s mental health workers, are crying out for help. Some are organizing. Some are marching. Some are striking. More power to them
Zmag
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25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
The book, Seeds of Power, offers important insights on the complex dynamics of power and compliance and how they can play out in a broad national context
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal
We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance
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Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Global problems of this scale require global cooperation
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Photo by bgrocker/Shutterstock How is it that in Australia,...
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Honest Government Ad | Hotel Quarantine & Vaccines
The Australien Government has made an ad about its hotel quarantine and vaccines policies, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
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How to Pass the Salt While Maintaining Proper Social Distance
Solving everyday problems using familiar objects in unfamiliar ways
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People Are Suffering ‘In A Way We Have Not Seen Since The Great Depression’
ndependent Senator Bernie Sanders discusses the need for Congress to pass a new coronavirus stimulus bill and the importance of the upcoming Senate race in Georgia
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Interview on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed
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There are 30,000 Cuban medical professionals currently serving in more than 60 countries
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Revival of U.S. Movement for Single Payer
Jack Rasmus interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer HealthCare (aka Medicare for All), on the recently re-energized and growing national movement for Single Payer-National Healthcare
Blogs
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Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and “The Big Hog”
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen...
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Bittman Bashing Butter: And Beyond: A Re-Buttal
NOTE: Since the article reviewed here, (i.e. 2 years later)...
Books
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The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness
About the Book World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight...
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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and...
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Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World`s Poorest Patients
Foreword by John Le Carre Winner, Prix Prescrire 2008 Library...
