Panel Promotes Universal Health Care for All Americans
Aron Guy | U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke was one of three guests explaining the benefits of a single-payer healthcare system Sunday in a program called “Yes We Can: Universal Health Care for all Americans.”
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A Taste for Change: Brooklyn Food Conference Organizers Step up to the Plate
Aron Guy | In many areas of Brooklyn, you can get a cheeseburger at 2 a.m. but you have to get on a bus to buy a head of lettuce. For Park Slope resident Nancy Romer, this is not acceptable.
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4th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk
NYC Street Memorial Project | 10:45 am: Bronx
12 pm: Astoria, Queens
12:45 pm: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2:30 pm: Chinatown
4 pm: Delancey and Allen, Manhattan
5 pm: St. Mark's Church, E 10th St and 2nd Ave
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Make Obama enact Single-Payer health care!
forwarded by Skinny John | The Obama "Transition" Team has announced a project for people across the country to host and attend "health care discussion meetings" to gather ideas and input from the grassroots about healthcare reform.
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Dry Cleaner Attempts to Bribe Activists
Bates Troy Noisy Neighbor | Bates Troy Healthcare Linens has been quarreling with local residents for months over noise pollution complaints but now they are trying a different tactic: bribery. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Bates Troy offered the lead organizers in the community several thousand dollars if they'd move out and end the campaign for quiet. The bribery attempt was conducted by Director of Sales and Marketing, Randy Widrick, with the knowledge of Bates Troy's management, and has been caught on tape.
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WILL IMPORTED FOOD FROM CHINA EVER BE SAFE?
Thomas Riggins | The nature of the capitalist profit motive is what drives food contamination, and not just in China.
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972 Baloch have been arrested in Balochistan, Iran only in November 08
Reza Hossein Borr | The Tortured body of Mohammad Brahouee was delivered to his family after being kidnapped on the first of December 08 by Iranian security forces, according to Balochistan Human Rights Watch. Mohammad was seriously beaten up in his own home, in front of his four children and wife and some neighbors. When he became unconscious, the security forces kidnapped him and informed his family after four days that he was dead.
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UTNE Names Robina Suwol One Of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World"
California Safe Schools | California Safe Schools Founder & Executive Director Recognized for Decade of Green School Efforts
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Hold Obama Accountable, Part 2
forwarded by Skinny John | Is this the first chance for the new president and his party to make good on their promises to protect US jobs, to deliver health care and be the "change" tens of millions voted for? Will they take it? Can we make them?
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Tree of Life - Coconut Oil
Karen Smith | Coconut Oil SLAMMED – Soybean Growers make a KILLING
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