Posts Tagged: health care
Teachers are on the front lines for education
Feb 13, 2019
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Teachers in Denver are striking for the first time in 25 years.
Nurses organize impressive barnstorm launching 2019 Medicare for All campaign
Feb 13, 2019
Over 150 people came out to demand Medicare for All at the historic Women’s Building in San Francisco on a rainy evening Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Banner drop caps week of protest against NM abortion ban
Jan 24, 2019
The revival of militant street-based movement for abortion rights is sure to continue!
On Roe v Wade anniversary, build the movement, fight for women’s rights!
Jan 23, 2019
Forty-six years after the Roe v Wade decision recognized that a women’s right to abortion was protected by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, a...
Without Roe, abortions would instantly be banned in almost half the country
Jan 15, 2019
Repealing abortion bans in New Mexico and elsewhere are an important step.
Grassroots organizing wins Idaho Medicaid expansion
Dec 30, 2018
For years, Idaho’s legislature refused to allow Medicaid expansion in the state, but with the passage of a new voter initiative, the people of Idaho...
Kaiser Strike: ‘Civil Rights issue of our time’
Dec 13, 2018
More than 4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser hospitals are wrapping up a spirited five-day strike that began on Dec. 10.
Extreme anti-abortion amendment passes in Alabama
Dec 09, 2018
Ever since Roe, reactionaries in Alabama have been fighting to ban abortion.
Cleanup workers, others impacted by BP oil spill demand justice
Dec 08, 2018
37,000 cleanup workers, residents and military personnel wait to be heard in court 8 years later
No funding for Montana Medicaid expansion amid statewide health crisis
Dec 06, 2018
As the U.S. continues to gut Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the rich, more
people will go uninsured
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.