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Community Protests Deutsche Bank |
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by Diane Krauthamer, |
 BOSTON – Equipped with megaphones, banners, and golf clubs, nearly 100 community members “teed off” at Deutsche Bank’s gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on Boylston Street. In the early evening of September 2, Boston-area labor and housing activists—representing such groups as City Life/Vida Urbana, Jobs with Justice, Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, Community Labor United, Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending and the SEIU—demonstrated at the dinner, which kicked off the bank’s annual PGA golf championship. |
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07 Sep 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor : Organizing : Social Welfare |
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A look inside CORI reform |
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by Press Pass TV, |
 Press Pass TV talks to community members and CORI Reform activists to find out more about just what CORI is and what all the fuss is about. If you've been in Massachusetts the last year you've probably heard the acronym. But how does it affect people, what will reform look like, and what will it take to make it happen? |
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02 Sep 2009
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Filed under: Interview / Politics |
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The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform - Private Insurers and Big PhRMA |
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by Stephen Lendman, |
 Simply put, the obstacle to real health reform is the insurance and drug lobby's stranglehold on Democrat and Republican administrations and Congress. Corporate lawyers draft new laws, sign-off on changes, and industry officials staff the FDA, CDC, and other related agencies, then return to high-paying jobs in the sectors they represent. Public welfare is unconsidered under a system favoring profits, so achieving real reform is near-nil. Whatever, if any legislation, passes, will make a dysfunctional system worse by rationing care, leaving growing millions uninsured, many others underinsured, while enriching insurers, drug companies, and large hospital chains. |
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Same-Sex Marriage Rights Can’t Wait |
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by Stewart A. Alexander, |
 The leadership within the Peace and Freedom Party wants a measure to support same-sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010. Kevin Akin says, “The fight for human rights is back on the ballot for 2010, and if it fails, then 2012.” |
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Cracks Emerging in NAFTA |
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by Workers Action, |
The once-solid North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) is starting to show its age. The 1994 trade agreement that laid the foundation for the economic/political integration of North America is encountering serious internal ruptures, threatening future “progress.”
The problems are numerous: fights over trade, immigration, and military cooperation are all issues that Obama recently discussed in Mexico with his NAFTA partners, Mexico and Canada. The annual meeting that usually delivers plans for additional integration was instead used to remedy these heated issues, none of which were fully solved. |
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