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Margaret Flowers, M.D. is a pediatrician from Maryland who is co-director of Popular Resistance and coordinator of Health Over Profit for Everyone Campaign.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 12, 2021 Fighting Back Against Rising Attacks on Transgender People's Rights
A growing and coordinated attack on the rights of transgender people is taking place through state legislation and sadly it is receiving support from people across the political spectrum.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 8, 2021 Attacks On The Rights Of Transgender People Are Rising; Fight Back
A growing and coordinated attack on the rights of transgender people is taking place through state legislation.It is necessary to understand where this attack is coming from and the facts that dispel these myths so we can all take action to protect the rights of transgender people.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Supreme Court Challenge to ACA Highlights Why We Need Medicare for All
The ruling class is never going to just give us a health care system that works for the people we are going to have to organize and mobilize for it. With the majority of people in support of national improved Medicare for All, there couldn't be a better time to make the demand.
SHARE Monday, November 2, 2020 Countering Rightward Drift In The United States: This Struggle Is Long Term
The year 2020 has brought into clear focus that we are living in a failed state. The number of new COVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000 in one day. The recession is likely to deepen into a prolonged depression due to Congress' failure to provide supports for families and their businesses and farms. The climate crisis is raging.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 4, 2020 Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing: The Only Just Outcome Is His Freedom
The testimony portion of the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, taking place in the United Kingdom, concluded after four weeks. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who presided over the hearing, will not announce her decision until January. Until then, Assange will remain in detention in Belmarsh Prison.
SHARE Sunday, September 27, 2020 Let's Talk About Racism and Health
The current uprising across the nation is a take-off moment for systemic racism in the United States. A take-off moment occurs when awareness about a crisis reaches a level of public consciousness
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 13, 2020 KEVIN ZEESE: His Last Words For The Movement And Carrying On
Kevin Zeese died unexpectedly in his sleep, likely from a heart attack, early in the morning on September 6. He had not shown signs of illness and was working until the end.
SHARE Monday, August 17, 2020 Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service
The US Postal Service is failing due to a long term effort to weaken it plus the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and intentional efforts by the Trump administration to suppress the vote.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 1, 2020 Federal Troops Overstep in Oregon
Trump is not a "law and order" president, he is a chaos and disorder president. He is mistaken to think that increasing conflict in cities throughout the country will save his failing 2020 campaign.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 30, 2020 The Covid-19 Pandemic Exposes Deep Flaws In America's Broken Healthcare System
There are now more than 30 million people without health insurance. In the past five weeks, as more than 26 million people filed for unemployment benefits for the first time, five million of them lost their health insurance. The number of uninsured is expected to rise by more than 13 million by June.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 9, 2020 The United States Is Where Covid-19 Deaths Are Being Under-Reported
So far, China has controlled the virus, keeping the total number of cases below 82,000 and the number of deaths in the low 3,000's. Today, they are easing the quarantine, opening businesses back up and slowly returning to normal activity.
SHARE Monday, March 23, 2020 The Decade Of Transformation Is Here: Remaking Health Care
Advocates for a universal single-payer healthcare system in the United States have warned for years that we are ill-equipped to handle a pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis is making it very clear that our healthcare system is failing us.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 2, 2019 Failed Action On The Climate Crisis Makes Resistance Imperative
Last week, prominent scientists issued a warning that significant changes related to the climate crisis are already happening and could create a cascading effect that locks in catastrophic levels of temperature and sea-level rise. They view the pledges made by countries to take climate action as insufficient and leading to a three degrees Celsius temperature rise by the end of the century.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 17, 2019 The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire
"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures."
That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony "interim president" Juan Guaido are saying
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 8, 2019 No To NATO: Time To End Aggressive Militarism
US foreign policy is not the fabled "good cop" bringing peace to the world, but rather a policy of domination using military, economic and political power to accomplish aims for US transnational corporations and US empire.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Venezuela: What activists need to know about the US-led coup
Two things stand out about the U.S. coup in Venezuela. First, it is unusually open. Typically, the U.S. tries to hide its coups. Second, the coup is built on a series of obvious falsehoods, yet the bi-partisans in Washington, with a few exceptions, keep repeating them.