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Video: Addressing America's Health Apartheid
Check out this video of Deepak Bhargava speaking at the Health Care Can't Wait rally in Washington, DC. Deepak challenges the crowd to include equity in health care reform. Read More>
Time For A New Game Plan
The private insurance industry's latest talking point against the only way of ensuring affordable health care coverage for everyone, a robust public health insurance choice, is to accuse the government of trying to be a "player and a referee in the same game." It's telling that the private insurance lobbyists see the health care crisis as a 'game.' It's not a game. Read More>
Rising Tide of Violence Against Immigrants
Modern-day immigrants in this country have always faced multiple forms of violence - from the physical violence inflicted by anti-immigrant groups like the Minutemen to the psychological violence that is perpetuated by our nation's broken immigration system. But as recent headlines show, immigrant communities are now facing a sharp increase in hate-related violence. Read More>
Chew on this! Why Health Care Is Urgently Needed
Check out my GritTV video commentary on why the choice of a public health insurance option is the way forward for health care reform in our nation. What do you think? Read More>
New $1.1 Million Health Care Ad Campaign
Check out the newest ads from Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) targeting key Senators in Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington. Read More>
Every 2.5 days a construction worker dies on the job in Texas
Yesterday, an alarming new study was released that revealed Texas as the country’s deadliest state for construction workers. Coupled with the title of deadliest state for construction work, workers in the city of Austin suffer disproportionately high rates of not being paid for their work and sub-poverty level wages. Read More>
Addressing America's Health Apartheid
We have a storied history in this country of not talking about issues of race and ethnicity. The health care reform debate is proceeding no differently. In the midst of the broadest and weightiest debate that the nation has had on health care in many years, there is little attention being paid to racial inequality. Read More>
The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
A week after a white supremacist attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and on the day that three teenagers are being sentenced in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, for brutally beating and killing a Mexican immigrant, it's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence. Read More>
"Untapped" Donors: It’s Sap Season Year-Round for Organizers
Where I live in Western Massachusetts, tapping maple trees is a livelihood for some and a hobby for others. During the fleeting weeks of sap season, I look forward to putting a tap into a tree and seeing the clear sweet liquid immediately begin to flow into the bucket. The work to collect that sap and turn it into syrup is a labor of love, but there is nothing more satisfying than pouring your own maple syrup over pancakes hot off the griddle. Tapping individual donors also requires hard work and persistence, but the payoff is equally gratifying, and no doubt more lasting than the time it takes to swallow those delicious bites of syrup-laden pancake. After all, that’s where the money is: three-quarters of all charitable giving is done by individuals, dwarfing foundation grantmaking. As nonprofit recipients have pointed out, there tends to be a lot less paperwork and more flexibility involved with private donations compared with institutional grants. Yet, a survey of progressive individual donors found that while the vast majority does support organizing, 42 percent of them focus less than 25 percent of their giving on community organizing. Read More>
Our Economic Woes May Be Bad - But They Aren't New
A central tenet driving environmentalism is that we should leave the world better than we found it. As we think about reviving our stumbling economy, the same principle should apply — if we simply restore the economy to its pre-crisis footing, we have not only missed the opportunity for more sweeping reforms but paved the way for future crises by neglecting to address the fundamental failings that caused this one. Read More>
