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Keep organizing for single-payer health care, Conyers urges
March 11, 2009PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of people at a town hall meeting here heard Michigan Congressman John Conyers urge continued organizing and lobbying for the U.S. National Health Insurance Act (HR 676), commonly known as the single-payer Medicare...
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Some great films to watch this Womens History Month
March 11, 2009“Erin Brockovich” (2000) Starring Julia Roberts, this is the true story of a single mother who lands a clerical job in a law firm, then stumbles upon a giant power company’s systematic cover-up of how its...
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People’s Weekly World labor editor debates Employee Free Choice Act on askthetrucker.com
March 11, 2009People's Weekly World labor editor debates Employee Free Choice Act on askthetrucker.com
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Study links poorer hospital care to racial segregation
March 11, 2009Original source: ProPublica For years, doctors and researchers have found that African-Americans with heart disease tend to receive lower-quality care, part of a larger problem of health disparities in America. Racial segregation may account for some...
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FIRST-HAND REPORT: The White House health care summit
March 11, 2009The following report from the March 5 White House Health Care Summit from Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, was posted on PNHP’s blog. Original source: Thanks to many grassroots activists...
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