WHERE: Westgate Plaza, Chili Ave. at Brooks. WHEN: Thursday, May 24th, 5:30pm WHY: To demand that the NYS Senate pass a raise in the minimum wage! For years, those among us with the lowest incomes, have seen pay decreases year after year. As we know, when we don’t raise the minimum wage it’s purchasing power [...]
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Doctors, nurses, patients, senior citizens, anti-poverty advocates, faith leaders and medical administrators joined Assemblymember Richard Gottfried and Senator Thomas Duane in unveiling an updated and revised single payer legislative proposal for New York State. More than 70 state lawmakers are cosponsors Assemblymember Gottfried had initially drafted a single payer plan for New York in the [...]
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From Democrat & Chronicle Written by: Sean Dobbin The squirrels were persistent — in the seven years before he bought the place, this had been their home, after all — but Leonard Spears eventually managed to kick them out. He ran new wiring through busted sockets, installed new floors, patched holes in the ceilings, and [...]
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The Huffington Post In a unanimous 11-0 vote on Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an official resolution calling for a moratorium on all foreclosures in the city. “The foreclosure crisis has already devastated so many lives,” Supervisor John Avalos, the legislator who introduced the bill last month, said in a statement. [...]
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By Josh Cavanagh and Scott Klinger Inside and outside of Wells Fargo’s annual meeting in San Francisco yesterday, thousands of angry protesters decried the bank’s leading role in the loss of millions of American homes to foreclosure.Demonstrators march and block a side entrance to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 24, [...]
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By the editors, The Nation The student loan crisis finally reached center stage in Washington after the House GOP budget called for letting interest rates double on government-subsidized loans (and for deep cuts in Pell grants and other student support). If it passes, students who borrow the maximum will end up paying as much as [...]
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By Jessica Valenti, The Nation Media coverage of the Republican “war on women” has largely focused on the attempted rollbacks of reproductive rights and the all-too-frequent sexist gaffes that are plaguing the GOP these days. (I, for one, will never tire of aspirin between the knees jokes.) While seeing so much ink spilled over feminist [...]
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By Dave Zirin, The Nation In the United States, communities of the poor are accustomed to a constant police presence. Upon visiting Población La Victoria, a small, self-contained suburb outside of Santiago, Chile, I saw the opposite. During the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet, La Victoria was a citadel of resistance, where police feared to [...]
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By Paul Buchheit We hear these claims often, even though they’re entirely false. An analysis of the facts should make that clear. 1. The Rich Pay Almost All the Taxes That’s simply not true. The percentage of total taxes paid by the very rich (the top 1%) is approximately the same as the percentage paid [...]
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Rinku Sen, for The Nation Fighting discrimination requires setting standards for both individual and collective behavior, educating everyone about those standards and ultimately creating some consequence for violating them. This young woman’s question implied that a society can generate compliance with such standards through volunteerism, an individual embrace of colorblind or gender-neutral ways of dealing [...]
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