Daily Archives: December 11, 2009

health care, labor

Maine AFL-CIO Calls for Labor Summit & Strategy to Win Single Payer

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2009 Maine AFL-CIO Convention

Maine AFL-CIO Calls for Labor Summit & Strategy to Win Single Payer

by Matt Schlobohm, Public Policy & Poltical Mobilization Director, Maine AFL-CIO, and Charlie Urquhart, Organizer, Maine Labor Group on Health

On Friday October 23, 2009 the delegates at the Maine AFL-CIO’s 27th
Biennial Convention unanimously passed a resolution calling on the AFL-CIO to convene, after the current healthcare reform process in Congress concludes, a democratic strategic planning process to develop a long term strategy to win Single Payer national health insurance.

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antiwar, elections

Senator Specter Emerges as Peace Candidate

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Photo: Specter vs. Sestak

Can Arlen Specter

End the War

in Afghanistan?

By Robert Naiman
Huffington Post

Who knew Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter would emerge as one of the most vocal opponents in the Senate of the President’s military escalation in Afghanistan?

But so it is. In an op-ed this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Specter not only challenges the “surge”; he also challenges fundamental premises of the war. Specter writes:

I’m opposed to sending 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan because I don’t believe they are indispensable in our fight against al Qaeda. […] But if al Qaeda can organize and operate out of Yemen, Somalia or elsewhere, then why fight in Afghanistan, which has made a history of resisting would-be conquerors – from Alexander the Great in the 3rd century BC, to Great Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries, to the former Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s? Continue reading Senator Specter Emerges as Peace Candidate →