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Chuck Pennacchio, Ph.D., is a five-decade issue, electoral, and union organizer; president of the One Payer States network (onepayerstates.org); senior advisor to Healthcare for All Pennsylvania; co-founder of Our Revolution PA; founder of the Justice for All Network (justiceforall.global); producer of the single-payer documentary "Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point" (fixithealthcare.org); 2016 Bernie Sanders delegate; 2006 Democratic primary candidate for the United States Senate (PA); aide to four U.S. Senators and one U.S. House Member, 1979-1988; a 32-year history and politics professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Delaware Valley University (PA), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and University of Colorado-Boulder; and author/co-author of several books, book chapters, and articles on U.S. and European history, U.S. healthcare, and U.S. politics. More importantly, Chuck is the father of two children, Sophia (26) and Ben (23), who are also politically and intellectually engaged citizens. He now lives in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. OpEd News Member for 779 week(s) and 1 day(s) 21 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 60 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Sunday, March 10, 2024"Blown Opportunity. Now what? Post-State of the Union reflections" Panglossian optimism is not going to lead to unified Democratic government in the 2024 elections, as so many of my political friends seem to think and as so many MSM pundits and D-Party people gushed after Biden's State of the Union speech. 
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Monday, January 1, 2024Looking Backward, Looking Forward: 2023, 2024, Before and Beyond In 1888, Edward Bellamy's forward-looking novel, Looking Backward 2000-1887, made a sensational impact in an American society reeling from the ravages of the Gilded Age's barbarous Capitalism and Social Darwinism. Bellamy's Boston of the futuristic year 2000 - as conveyed to us by time-traveler Julian West - gives us a utopian vision of universal justice, shared wealth, religious harmony, and global peace. 
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Saturday, June 17, 2023Daniel Ellsberg: 'Pentagon Papers' Whistleblower, Pro-Democracy Hero (1931-2023) Daniel Ellsberg, who former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called "The Most Dangerous Man in America" for revealing the secret history and nuclear threats of the U.S. war in Vietnam, left the living on Friday morning, June 16, due to inoperable pancreatic cancer. 
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023Harry Belafonte: Anti-Fascist and Pro-Democracy Artist-Activist, Rest in Power (at 96) Harry Belafonte: Anti-Fascist and Pro-Democracy Artist-Activist, Rest in Power (at 96) 
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Saturday, November 5, 2022Billionaire-fueled Fascism is on the Nov. 8th Ballot the slide into Fascism will continue unless and until we finally recognize the dominant role of the Billionaire puppeteers at the top of the food chain " using and manipulating every ideological instrument in the Fascist toolkit 
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Sunday, October 16, 202210+ Things YOU Can Do to Fight Fascism Today - Individual and Collective Actions Below is a starter list of ideas that seek to undermine the Billionaire oligarchs' class war on us, the 99%, and then turn the tide in restoring and amplifying key democratic institutions. 
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Monday, September 26, 2022The Three Cornerstones of American Fascism American Fascism is all of its wicked dimensions, manifestations, and ideologies. 
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022Vote Your Power, Vote Your Values, Vote Your Issues The November 8th midterm elections may well determine whether we move to restore and rebuild a vital Democracy, or whether we go into Fascism. Register, then vote your power, values, and issues.
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Sunday, August 28, 2022Netroots Nation Union/Strike Report; Inspiring 20-Somethings Of all the workshops I attended at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, the one that stays with me is the workshop entitled: "Starbucks Workers United, Young Workers, and the Future of the Labor Movement." 
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Friday, May 14, 2021Washington State: Single-Payer Health Care Here We Come Washington State's history-making Single-Payer directive legislation, signed into law yesterday by Gov. Jay Inslee, establishes the Evergreen State as the leading force for universal healthcare justice in the United States. 
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021Derek Chauvin found guilty on all three counts: Connecting Health and Healthcare Justice - history in the making the 2021 murder and manslaughter convictions of Derek Chauvin are, perhaps, the 'Justice for All' turning point that will connect al 
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Sunday, July 5, 2020Guaranteed Health Care for All is Patriotic The second paragraph, "social contract" passage of the Declaration should focus our attention, laser-like, on the destructive and suffocating reality of the corporatized Medical-Industrial Complex (not to mention analogous military, media, prison, etc., industrial complexes) that puts profits over patients and practitioners -- with record-breaking legalized-larceny occurring now, during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
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Sunday, July 5, 2020George Floyd, Independence Day, and Rethinking the Single Payer Movement Our pro-democracy journey may well begin with the conquest of the Medical Industrial Complex, and a system of true Universal Health Care in its place, but it cannot stop there. We must strive to be a Whole and Complete Society that truly and equally values all lives. While Universal Health Care is our Mission, Universal Health must be our Vision. 
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Thursday, January 17, 2019Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success The national focus of Medicare for All activists has centered, up till now, almost exclusively on Congressional bill HR 676, there is a compelling argument that we adopt a balanced, complementary, two-track approach with Congress: continued strong, grassroots lobbying for national Medicare at the same time we advocate with equal vigor for state-level Medicare, through the state-enabling Universal Health Care legislation, 
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Thursday, January 3, 2019NY Times Hit Piece on Bernie Sanders in Keeping With the Establishment's Leading News Organ rankly, this sexism-charge article is a warmed-over rehash of stories known and alleged two years ago a front-page, tabloid-style attack that nowhere approaches the New York Times boastful standard of "All the News That's Fit to Print." Rather, the piece is best understood as an attack piece by the establishment's "paper of record." 
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Monday, July 16, 2018Trump and Putin: the New Axis Alliance? Trump, envious and jealous of what Putin has achieved (proto-Fascist dictatorship), Trump is taking Putin's lead on Cold War containment in reverse. 
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017Our Revolution Has Begun As we organize "Our Revolution" your responses to the following questions (and more) will help us develop tactical steps for the twin strategic goals of (1) building successful coalition partnerships around issue campaigns, and (2) restoring the Democratic Party as a democratic Progressive-Populist People's Party reborn in the crisis decade of the Great Depression. 
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Sunday, August 7, 2016The 2016 Democratic National Convention: 'Inside-Outside' Reflections of a Bernie Sanders Delegate Putting the entire DNC week into concise language is a serious challenge. So, hopefully, the addition of my smart phone photos will convey more insight, richness, and meaning. 
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Monday, March 11, 2013PA Study Proves Single-payer Health Care Will Save $17 Billion Annually and Cover Everybody in PA A new study demonstrates that Pennsylvania can provide comprehensive, universal health care to every Pennsylvanian while saving billions of dollars in the process. It is time the United States, was no longer the only holdout among the 34 advanced industrialized countries in the world, all of whom, but us, have universal health care. The states can lead the way toward making this a reality.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012Michael Moore, ACA, and the Single Payer Solution Michael Moore's SiCKO reunion visit, coupled with Single Payer state-based convention, show the way to transform the Affordable Care Act's enabling provisions into Medicare for All. |
