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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...
Read moreSome 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...
Read morePeople’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
Read moreEl Salvador poised to make history
March 11, 2009RIVER FOREST, Ill. -- After 20 years of one-party rule and 17 years after the end of a brutal civil war, a seismic political shift is shaping up in El Salvador. Recent polls indicate Mauricio Funes...
Read moreStudy 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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