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Activists Push for Universal Primary Care in Vermont
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t r u t h o u t | 02.03
The "State" of Health-Care Reform: Activists Push for Universal Primary Car=
e in Vermont
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34678-the-state-of-health-care-reform-ac=
tivists-push-for-universal-primary-care-in-vermont
Michael Corcoran, Truthout: After efforts to pass statewide single-payer he=
alth care were foiled in late 2014, single-payer proponents in Vermont are =
now calling for universal primary care, which they hope will be an incremen=
tal step toward their goal of public health care for all.
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Mitigating the Harm Done to Children's Health in Flint
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34652-mitigating-the-harm-done-to-chi=
ldren-s-health-in-flint
Brian Moench, Truthout: Whatever damage has been done to a child's brain by=
lead and other neurotoxins is largely irreversible. However, we need to ex=
plore medical therapies, like chelation and an antioxidant-rich diet, which=
may protect children who were exposed to lead from additional harm.
=20
What Would Sanders Do? An Analysis of His Proposals
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34675-what-would-sanders-do
Gerald Friedman, Dollars & Sense: Taken together, Bernie Sanders' policies =
would not only dramatically increase employment and national income, but wo=
uld also raise wages, reduce poverty and narrow the gap between rich and po=
or Americans.
Rhythms of Resistance: Singer Behind Anti-Racist Anthem Discusses Role of A=
rt in Activism
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34672-rhythms-of-resistance-singer-behin=
d-anti-racist-anthem-discusses-role-of-art-in-activism
Naomi Jaffe, Truthout: Taina Asili, a vocal artist, poet and justice activi=
st, discusses her anti-racist activism, the power of art to change narrativ=
es and her new music video, which offers the Black Lives Matter and anti-in=
carceration movements an anthem that celebrates resistance to racism.
=20
Report: Even After 2013 Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Hundreds of Communities=
Still at Risk
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34674-report-even-after-2013-texas-ferti=
lizer-explosion-hundreds-of-communities-still-at-risk
Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times: Nearly three years after a catastrophic=
explosion in West, Texas, the US Chemical Safety Board has released a repo=
rt which finds huge gaps in safety measures in such facilities. There are m=
ore than 1,300 facilities like this across the US, and very little progress=
has been made addressing safety concerns.
Koch-Fueled Playbook Against West Virginia Working Families Exposed
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34679-koch-fueled-playbook-against-west-=
virginia-working-families-exposed
PR Watch Editors, PR Watch: The latest showdown between the Koch billionair=
e cash machine and working people is in West Virginia, where team Koch is l=
ooking for billionaire-friendly politicians to pack the one-two punch that =
helped put Wisconsin on the ropes: right-to-work and prevailing wage repeal=
.
Emergency Manager Who Switched Flint Water Resigns From Detroit Schools
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34682-emergency-manager-who-switched-fli=
nt-water-resigns-from-detroit-schools
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonz=C3=A1lez, Democracy Now!: Congress is holding its=
first hearing today on lead poisoning in the water supply of Flint, Michig=
an. Flint's former emergency manager Darnell Earley announced he was resign=
ing from his current position as emergency manager of the Detroit Public Sc=
hools.
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Turning Our Backs on the Nation's Vulnerable
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34677-turning-our-backs
Isaiah J. Poole, OtherWords: By this spring, more than 500,000 people natio=
nwide could be cut off from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program=
(food stamps). For most of them, the maximum benefit of less than $200 per=
month is all the federal aid they get. For some, it's their entire income.
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Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Academy
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34680-exile-as-a-space-of-disruption-=
in-the-academy
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster Institute: Under the regime of neoliberalism, too=
many institutions of higher education have transformed the culture of educ=
ation into the culture of business and are now characterized by a withdrawa=
l into the private and the irrelevant.
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Dangerous Weaponry Used on Refugees With No Legal Status in Calais, France
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34685-dangerous-weaponry-used-on-refugee=
s-with-no-legal-status-in-calais
Vyvian Raoul and Anna Feigenbaum, New Internationalist: Not only are French=
security forces shooting refugees with riot control weapons at close range=
, but almost all the tear gas casings found were identified as out-of-date.=
Like other chemical products, tear gas expires, becoming dangerous for a n=
umber of reasons.
A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34684-a-bold-shift-to-make-public-school=
s-serve-poor-students
Abigail Savitch-Lew, YES! Magazine: Last year, New York City began turning =
schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools - combining rigorous i=
nstruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support syste=
m. These schools may spark the transformation of the entire city's educatio=
n system.
La Via Campesina: Building an International Movement for Food and Seed Sove=
reignty
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34676-la-via-campesina-building-an-in=
ternational-movement-for-food-and-seed-sovereignty
Simone Adler, Other Worlds: La Via Campesina general coordinator Elizabeth =
Mpofu talks about the strategies small farmers around the world - particula=
rly in Zimbabwe - are using to protect their indigenous seeds, promote agro=
ecology over industrial farming and declare their rights.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Will the Fear-Driven Tyranny of the Right Wing Triumph Over Peace and Plura=
lism?
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-paranoid-style-in-us-poli=
tics-is-as-toxic-as-monsanto-chemicals
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The politics of fear, xenophobia, consp=
iratorial theories and racism have been part of the United States since its=
inception.
Charles P. Pierce: This Is Not the Way the Democratic Campaign Should Be Co=
nducted
Read the Article at Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41754/chris-matthews-hi=
llary-clinton-interview/
Birthers Fantasize Obama Born in Kenya, but Cruz Was Actually Born in Canad=
a? I'm Confused!
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/birthers-say-obama-born-in-ke=
nya-but-cruz-was-actually-born-in-canada-i-m-confused
Jimmy Carter Calls US Campaign Finance Ruling "Legalized Bribery"
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/carter-says-campaign-finance=
-2010-citizens-united-ruling-legalised-bribery
Prosecutors File Criminal Charges in Methane Leak Near Los Angeles
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-methane-lawsuit-idUSKCN0VB25M
Trump Accuses Cruz of "Fraud," Calls for Iowa Caucus to Be "Nullified"
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-tweet-cruz-stole-iowa
FBI Is Now Involved in the Investigation Into the Flint Water Crisis
Read the Article at Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/02/fbi-now-involved-investigation-=
flint-water-crisis
Georgia Executes Its Oldest Death Row Prisoner, Age 72
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0d6dddcb357241d7b2f2b620d9eea01d/georgia-exe=
cutes-its-oldest-death-row-inmate-age-72=20
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times:</strong> Nearly three years after a catastrophic explosion in West, Texas, the US Chemical Safety Board has released a report which finds huge gaps in safety measures in such facilities. There are more than 1,300 facilities like this across the US, and very little progress has been made addressing safety concerns.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zyWGHwgNCHLom4oKg2MObC9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Koch-Fueled Playbook Against West Virginia Working Families Exposed</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>PR Watch Editors, PR Watch:</strong> The latest showdown between the Koch billionaire cash machine and working people is in West Virginia, where team Koch is looking for billionaire-friendly politicians to pack the one-two punch that helped put Wisconsin on the ropes: right-to-work and prevailing wage repeal.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=opSUataM7VUpkUAiO3tfjC9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=087unmyxjjmDdTirE%2FbTXi9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Emergency Manager Who Switched Flint Water Resigns From Detroit Schools</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> Congress is holding its first hearing today on lead poisoning in the water supply of Flint, Michigan. Flint's former emergency manager Darnell Earley announced he was resigning from his current position as emergency manager of the Detroit Public Schools.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PVTt%2BJqqvXZOSVC%2BS6VEXC9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2YWfPTnChTeyv%2FEFz3E99i9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Turning Our Backs on the Nation's Vulnerable</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Isaiah J. Poole, OtherWords:</strong> By this spring, more than 500,000 people nationwide could be cut off from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps). For most of them, the maximum benefit of less than $200 per month is all the federal aid they get. For some, it's their entire income.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W1viC7QrV8B5Ge9gelHOES9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pnsJ%2F34Ghepx%2BToOgiZQSS9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Academy</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Henry A. Giroux, McMaster Institute:</strong> Under the regime of neoliberalism, too many institutions of higher education have transformed the culture of education into the culture of business and are now characterized by a withdrawal into the private and the irrelevant.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2FgJHpxBFkdz6bjKhfHdIy9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=beufPIsnFhrcxgx6Ld4PFi9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Dangerous Weaponry Used on Refugees With No Legal Status in Calais, France</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Vyvian Raoul and Anna Feigenbaum, New Internationalist:</strong> Not only are French security forces shooting refugees with riot control weapons at close range, but almost all the tear gas casings found were identified as out-of-date. Like other chemical products, tear gas expires, becoming dangerous for a number of reasons.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FgIW2rN6etrhF83b0sr%2BOS9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mur%2FlGZLO1WIRtoJ30oqclB6MlgCQr0s"><strong>A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Abigail Savitch-Lew, YES! Magazine:</strong> Last year, New York City began turning schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools - combining rigorous instruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support system. These schools may spark the transformation of the entire city's education system.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bd5e7KN1oAbW%2Bv5Uqxf3Ay9Imx61F4LI"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ob0EiwX8%2BlZDhaPxQb2G%2BS9Imx61F4LI"><strong>La Via Campesina: Building an International Movement for Food and Seed Sovereignty</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Simone Adler, Other Worlds:</strong> La Via Campesina general coordinator Elizabeth Mpofu talks about the strategies small farmers around the world - particularly in Zimbabwe - are using to protect their indigenous seeds, promote agroecology over industrial farming and declare their rights.</p>
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