mental health
Librarian: With Emanuel’s pension plan “…I got two feet in the grave”
November 4, 2013Residents testified mainly on the impact of cuts to mental health clinics, public worker retiree health care and education.
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December 26, 2012A poem in memory of those who died in Newtown.
Read moreSandy Hook vigils mourn victims, vow action
December 17, 2012Candlelight vigils were held nationwide mourning the victims of the Dec. 14 massacre. They promised hope for a national conversation and vows for action on mental health care and gun control.
Read moreGroup sees the disabled as their own best spokespeople
September 25, 2012Marian Bacon has worked at The Memphis Center for Independent Living, an action and advocacy organization for people with disabilities, for over five years.
Read moreU.S. gun culture diagnosed as a social disease
September 25, 2012In the wake of the two mass shootings this summer, some American physicians consider this country's gun violence a social disease.
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