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Thirty Arrested at WV ‘Mountaintop Removal’ Protest
Mountaintop removal protest:
Finding a path forward?
by Ken Ward Jr.
The Charleston Gazette
SUNDIAL, W.Va. — It was quite a scene outside Massey Energy’s Goals Coal Co. operation Tuesday.
First, there were the protesters — a mix of West Virginia residents and those darned out-of-state agitators — playing some hillbilly music, doing some speechifying, and then marching down W.Va. 3 in the hopes of being carted off by State Police troopers, joining the ranks of those who have been arrested in the growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal.
Then, there were the miners and their families. They revved up motorcycle engines, honked air horns and did one heck of a lot of yelling, all trying to drown out the protesters. Then, of course, they massed together, blocking the entrance to the mine site, thwarting any hopes the other side had of trespassing on Massey property.
And oh yeah, Daryl Hannah was there — and she smiled and waved as she got hauled off in a nice, blue-and-gold trooper cruiser. There was also some guy named James Hansen, who happens to be one of the world’s top climate scientists. He got arrested, too.
Continue reading Thirty Arrested at WV ‘Mountaintop Removal’ Protest
Single-Payer, Medicare for All, is Best Solution to Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 24, 2009
CONTACT: CNA/NNOC/PDA
Charles Idelson, 510-273-2246
or Tim Carpenter, 413-320-2015
Nurses, Progressive Dems Seek Stepped Up
Action for Real, “Robust” Healthcare Reform
WASHINGTON – June 24 – With action heating up in Washington for enactment of comprehensive healthcare reform, the nation’s largest RN union and professional association joined with progressive Democratic Party activists today in calling for the most “robust” reform of all to repair the nation’s healthcare crisis, by enacting a single-payer system in the form of an expanded and updated Medicare for all.
In a joint statement, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association and Progressive Democrats of America announced they are stepping up calls and other lobbying efforts to urge Congressional leaders to include discussion of the single-payer option in upcoming deliberations on the healthcare reform legislation now advancing in Congress.
Continue reading Single-Payer, Medicare for All, is Best Solution to Crisis
Jesse Jackson on Student Debt Relief, Organizing from Below
Far From Over! Join June 6 EFCA Rally!
Public Meeting on Healthcare with Cong. Altmire 9:15am May 9th in Cranberry
SEND A MESSAGE TO CONGRESSMAN ALTMIRE (D-4th)
HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT,
NOT JUST ANOTHER
‘INSURANCE PRODUCT’
TO BE SOLD FOR PROFIT!
Saturday May 9, 2009
Cranberry Twp. Municipal Building
2525 Rochester Road
9:15 AM
o Insurance companies like AARP do not cure the sick, care for patients, or cure disease.
o Giving taxpayer dollars to insurance companies is not healthcare reform
o We want healthcare not health insurance
o Health care insurance premiums are out of control, rising 100% since 2000 and projected to consume all of the average household income by 2025!
o Private insurance offers less choice. 95% of HMO/PPO metro markets in the USA are near monopolies. UPMC and Highmark are dominant in our area!
PUBLIC OPINION POLLS SHOW STRONG SUPPORT FOR A UNIVERSAL NOT FOR PROFIT SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
WHY DOES JASON ALTMIRE REFUSE TO LET HR 676, THE U.S. HEALTH CARE ACT, THE SINGLE PAYER SOLUTION BE DEBATED AS A HEALTHCARE OPTION?
WHO DOES JASON ALTMIRE REPRESENT?
INSURANCE/FINANCE COMPANIES OR THE PEOPLE?
For more information
W.PA. Coalition for Single Payer HealthCare
http://www.wpasinglepayer.org
412-826-1270
Pittsburgh: 300 Union Workers Gather to Support EFCA Bill
Angry Workers:
Sen. Arlen Specter
Receives Thousands
of Protest Letters
By Ann Belser
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 15, 2009 – Dewitt Walters, of the United Steelworkers, instructs union members and supporters to march two-by-two on the sidewalk along the Boulevard of the Allies yesterday as they walk to Sen. Arlen Specter’s Pittsburgh office to deliver petitions supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. Union members rallied at the USW headquarters before the march.
Local labor organizations figured maybe 50 people would want to come along to hand-deliver thousands of letters, written in favor of pending legislation, to U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter’s office.
Continue reading Pittsburgh: 300 Union Workers Gather to Support EFCA Bill
One Minute of Wisdom: Kucinich on Dealing with The Crisis by Putting the Fed Under Treasury
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
States His Intention
To Put The Federal Reserve
Under Government Control
Obama Summit on Healthcare – Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single Payer is Ignored
Why Is Single Payer Not Front and Center?
President Obama hosted a White House summit Thursday on reforming healthcare. While President Obama said every idea must be considered, the idea of creating a single-payer national health insurance program appears to have already been rejected. We speak to Harper’s senior editor Luke Mitchell, author of the article “Sick in the Head: Why America Won’t Get the Health-Care System It Needs.”
Listen/Watch/Read:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/6/as_obama_hosts_summit_on_health
County Residents Give Congressman Altmire and Transport Officials An Earful
Photo: Jason Altmire, (D-4th-PA) at labor meeting
Residents Speak Up
at ‘Town Hall’ Forum
on Transportation
and Job Issues
By Carl Davidson
Beaver County Blue
Congressman Jason Altmire got an earful at the Feb. 17 “Town Meeting’ on transportation issues held at Beaver County Community College, with some voices straying beyond the official agenda. But then, that’s what the representative from PA’s 4th CD called for when he launched sessions around the district inviting public participation.
The topic was Pennsylvania’s roads, bridges and traffic patterns, and how to keep the state, district and county from being shortchanged on all fronts. But it widened to include environmental protection, youth unemployment, racism in hiring, high-speed rail, rebuilding lock and dams, and general praise for President Barack Obama’s stimulus package. Continue reading County Residents Give Congressman Altmire and Transport Officials An Earful
Beaver County Blue: Voice of the 17th CD of Progressive Democrats of America 