Archive for 2009
After a protest from supporters of single payer national universal health care, Congressman John Conyers was invited as the lone advocate of single payer at President Obama’s health care reform summit today.
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America’s workers are struggling to make ends meet. But when workers are free to choose to join a union, our economy can work for everyone again.
That’s why we need the Employee Free Choice Act—a bill in Congress that would help level the playing field and give workers the freedom [...]
Tags: EFCA, labor unions
I implore the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus to spearhead the participation of the United States in the United Nation’s World Conference Against Racism: to boldly go where we have gone before.
Tags: Cynthia McKinney, Obama
…The labor leaders also asserted that the Obama administration, like the Bush administration, had failed to obtain fair value for the tens of billions it had invested in distressed banks.
Tags: labor unions, Nationalization, Obama
Tell Obama to let single payer into the White House Summit on healthcare.
Tags: labor unions, Obama, single payer
An interview with Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University in Northern California. Prof. Rasmus is a member of the newly formed National Steering Committee of the Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign (WERC). The interview was conducted on March 2, 2009, by Alan Benjamin, organizer for the WERC.
Tags: bailout, labor unions, Obama
Part 1 of 6 of Democracy Now! presentation.
From Democracy Now February 13, 2009
Both the House and Senate are set to vote today on the $789 billion economic stimulus package. The vote follows weeks of political wrangling that culminated in compromise legislation struck on Wednesday. The final size of the package is less than what both [...]
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interview Nobel economics laureate and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz says the Obama administration has failed to address the structural and regulatory flaws at the heart of the financial crisis that stand in the way of economic recovery. Stiglitz also talks about why he thinks Obama’s strategy on Afghanistan is wrong and that Obama’s plan to keep a “residual force” in Iraq will be “very expensive.” On health care, Stiglitz says a single-payer system is “the only alternative.”
February 22, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
By FRANK RICH
AND so on the 29th day of his presidency, Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill. But the earth did not move. The Dow Jones fell almost 300 points. G.M. and Chrysler together asked taxpayers for another $21.6 billion and announced another 50,000 layoffs. The latest alleged mini-Madoff, R. Allen Stanford, [...]
Tags: Nationalization, Obama
Por Nancy Wohlforth
Esta consigna fue coreada durante toda la campaña de Barack Obama. Los millones de trabajadores, de jóvenes, en particular, negros, que llevaron a Obama a la Presidencia el 4 de noviembre, la llenaron de un contenido: Que esto cambie, que cese la guerra en Iraq como en Afganistán, que cesan los despidos, que [...]
Tags: Obama
So the next time you hear Rush Limbaugh or some teevee pundit blathering on about the economic crisis and claiming nationalization is dangerous and un-American, remember: nationalization is everywhere in America, and has been for a long time — and it has worked quite well when done responsibly.
Tags: Nationalization
The following resolution was adopted unanimously by the Delegates’ Meeting of the San Francisco Labor Council on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Tags: HR676, labor unions, single payer, WERC
February 17, 2009
Union Talks Seen as Key as G.M. Makes Case for Funds
By BILL VLASIC and NICK BUNKLEY
DETROIT — With its access to a government lifeline possibly at risk, General Motors executives were locked in intense negotiations Monday with leaders of the United Automobile Workers over ways to cut its vast bills for retiree health [...]
Tags: bailout, labor unions
As resistance to foreclosure evictions grows among homeowners, community leaders and some law enforcement officials, a broad civil disobedience campaign is starting in New York and other cities to support families who refuse orders to vacate their homes.
Tags: evictions