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textBCA E-Alert March 2007 by via Breast Cancer Action
1. NEW AT BCA: February/March BCA Source Now Online; New Faces at BCA; BCA Hosts Aromatase Inhibitor Side Effects Report Conference Call; Barbara Brenner Receives a Jefferson Award; New Podcast Posted 2. IN THE NEWS: Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsored Studies Report More Positive Results 3. TAKE ACTION: Participate in the California Breast Cancer Research Program's Stakeholder Meetings; Take an Online Survey on "Chemo Brain" 4. FAQ OF THE MONTH: I am a mother of two young children, and I...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 10:12pm PST
textLiberal Fables About Health Care: John Edwards' Big Lie by Counterpunch (reposted)
When Ann Coulter used the f- word last week to describe John Edwards, she was just trying to sell Ann Coulter to her conservative base. When Hillary Clinton morphed into a southern black preacher, she was desperately trying to sell Hillary Clinton to a southern black audience. When John Edwards mailed out 70,000 DVDs advocating "universal health care" to Iowa voters this week, he was just trying to sell John Edwards to the corn belt. All were scamming the public in pursuit of fame an...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:53am PST
textLos Angeles hospitals investigated for “dumping” homeless patients by wsws (reposted)
Several hospitals in Los Angeles, California are under investigation for “dumping” homeless patients onto the streets. These patients—many of them not only physically but also mentally ill—have been driven in ambulances contracted by the hospitals and abandoned on the streets of the neighborhood known as Skid Row. This 50-block area east of the downtown business center is a high-crime district that is home to many homeless shelters and community assistance programs. Some estimates put the num...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:32am PST
textGovs confront Bush on children’s health care and deployment of National Guard units and equipment to Iraq by PWW (reposted)
The human impact in the U.S. of the trillion-dollar Iraq war and Bush tax cuts for the super-rich boiled to the surface at the annual National Governor’s Association (NGA) winter meeting, Feb. 24-27, as the top officials from all 50 states crossed swords with Bush over funding for children’s health care and deployment of National Guard units and equipment to Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:42am PST
textFood industry implicated in Britain’s bird flu outbreak by wsws (reposted)
On January 30, some dead turkeys were found in one of the intensive rearing sheds that form part of the Bernard Matthews turkey farm and processing plant in Holton, Suffolk in eastern England. The following day more turkeys were found dead and by February 3 more than a thousand had died....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:22am PST
textUS severe poverty highest in three decades by wsws (reposted)
Extreme poverty in the US has reached its highest point in at least three decades, according to an analysis of Census Bureau figures by McClatchy Newspapers published February 22. The increase reflects the stark reality of declining living standards for the majority of the population in the so-called capitalist recovery of the past five years as well as during the period that preceded it....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:21am PST
textLack of Universal Healthcare Killed Deamonte Driver by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Beyond Chron (reposted)
Sixty years ago, President Harry Truman was a man ahead of his times. According to Jill Quadagno’s “One Nation, Uninsured,” he wanted to give all Americans universal healthcare. Truman had the solid support of 75% of the country. Despite that, Truman’s effort was thwarted by the American Medical Association and by bigoted southern legislators who feared it would eliminate segregated medical facilities....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:20am PST
textSeven die in Pennsylvania house fire by wsws (reposted)
Six children and the mother of three of them died in a house fire early last Saturday morning near Waynesburg in southwestern Pennsylvania....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 6:15am PST
textVegan Foods That Don’t Suck by kirsten anderberg
We have all eaten horrific vegan food. It is inevitable. But over time, I have collected truly delicious vegan recipes and thought I would share a few with you in this article. Vegan food does not have to suck! Vegan foods are generally cheaper to make than dairy and meat product foods. Vegan ingredients are often easier to store, many not requiring refrigeration, etc., as well. And vegan foods are a good antidote to the fat-laden American diet that is so conveniently at our fingertips nowada...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 7:36am PST
textJakarta’s flood exposes government neglect and indifference by wsws (reposted)
Heavy monsoonal rains inundated large portions of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and surrounding areas in early February. At least 80 people have died, including 57 in the city itself, mostly as a result of drowning or electrocution. More than 430,000 people, above all the poor who live in the low-lying areas of the capital, have been forced from their homes....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:46am PST
textMemories of Camp Quixote by Ray Kavick
The abbreviated story of Olympia, WA's Camp Quixote......
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 1:53pm PST
textBush budget would slash Medicare, reward rich by PWW (reposted)
“The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction,” charged Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Feb. 5....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 7:00am PST
textUS and UK worst places in developed world to be a child by wsws (reposted)
The United States and Britain are the worst places in the major industrialised nations to be a child, according to a new report produced by Unicef. The organisation, which usually highlights the plight of child soldiers and children living in poverty in the so-called developing world, has turned the spotlight on 21 wealthy OECD countries. Its findings have exposed the appalling results of growing social inequality in both the UK and US. The report thoroughly refutes the claims of both governm...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 6:29am PST
textCall for the Second Katrina Survivors Assembly by Peoples' Hurricane Relief Fund
In accord with the principle that “the People Must Decide”, the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF/OC) calls for the convening of the Second Survivors Assembly on Saturday, August 25th – Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. We ask that all Survivors Councils, independent Survivor formations, Gulf Coast civil society organizations, and Solidarity Committee’s interested in participating in the Second Survivors Assembly please contact us by March 1st, 2...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 1:53pm PST
text“It’s lonely out in space”: The desperate astronaut and the unreality of official American by wsws (reposted)
The unhappy incident involving astronaut Lisa Nowak is the latest episode in American life on which official sources shed virtually no light....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:23am PST
textLack of affordable housing has deadly consequences by wsws (reposted)
Three tornadoes lashed through central Florida in the early morning hours on February 2, killing 20 people. Separate twisters touched down between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. local time, the first in the rural community of Lady Lake, killing six people, and a few minutes later a second one swept through the small town of Paisley, claiming another 13 lives. Most of the victims were asleep and unaware of any impending danger. It is estimated that over 1,500 homes were destroyed or heavily damaged and th...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 4:44pm PST
textAction Alert: Invigorate, Don't Decimate, the Family and Medical Leave Act by NOW
The Department of Labor has asked us to tell them what we think about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and we have a week to tell them: "Invigorate, do not decimate, the Family and Medical Leave Act"....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 9:28pm PST
textBack-Alley Medicine? Uninsured Seek New Health Options by New American Media (reposted)
Rising health care costs and crackdowns on undocumented immigrants are making many U.S. residents seek medical care from alternative health practitioners -- some of whom have dubious credentials. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health editor....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 7:40am PST
textUS Federal Reserve chairman issues warning on social inequality by wsws (reposted)
In a speech to the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, America’s central banker and one of the most powerful figures in the country, became the latest member of the US establishment to issue a caution about the growth of social inequality....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:50am PST
textUrgent: Camp Quixote in Olympia Given Orders to Shut Down by The Poor People's Union
I thought I'd pass this along as yet another example on how this country is waging war on the homeless. Maybe the Bay Area homeless need to get more organized, like these guys appearently are....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:38pm PST
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