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Noam Chomsky: Suicidal Policies vs OWS and Life!
May 2, 2012We are a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to “suicide” Noam Chomsky tells Laura Flanders. There are glimmers of possibility – in worker co-operatives, and other spaces where people get a taste of a different way of living.Can 'Caring Across Generations' Change the World?
April 13, 2012Ask anyone. We all have our “care stories.” What we don’t tend to have is a plan for what we’ll do when someone we love needs care, or when we ourselves turn out not to be invincible. We don’t have a plan, and neither does our government, and yet a crisis looms.Occupy Wall Street Labor March Special Coverage
October 5, 2011If the networks won't bring the protesters into the studio, we're going to bring a broadcast "studio" to the protesters. On Wednesday, October 5, 4-7 pm eastern watch special collaborative coverage of the Occupy Wall St Labor March at http://www.livestream/lauraflandersNurses Warn Washington: Don't Cut Care
July 22, 2011The Economic Policy Institute notes that for the poorest 40 percent of 65-and-older households, Social Security payouts constitute more than four-fifths of total income - and as RN Deborah Burger points out, patients are already making deadly choices between medications, rent and food.DeMoro: It's Not About A Paycheck
July 17, 2011The lobbyists and their pals in the media would have us believe the big corporations will leave this country if asked to pay their fair share. We've heard that story before.Safety First: Texas Terminations Put Patients at Risk
July 15, 2011To hear the debate over union rights in Washington, you'd think workers' rights had nothing to do with people's safety, only profits and threats to the same. The struggle of seven nurses in Brownsville Texas puts a different spin on things.Richard Trumka: We Need to Focus on our Friends
July 9, 2011Even before the budget debate -- and the breathtakingly bad June jobs numbers -- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was warning fair-weather Democrats not to count on organized labor's blank check.America's Not Broke but our Healthcare System is
June 24, 2011For how long have we said that women are the canaries in society's coal mine? It's still true. Mostly ignored in the money media, nurses, like teachers, and other female-dominated professions are feeling the pain that Wall Street and the Beltway are blocking out.Walmart: Too Big to Sue?
June 21, 2011Familiar with "too big to fail?" Welcome now to "too big to sue". Workers everywhere took a hit with the Supreme Court's gift to the biggest businesses.Dorian Warren: The 'Walmart Way'
June 20, 2011"It's a targeting of workers' abilities to come together against big companies," says Columbia University professor Dorian Warren of the Walmart v. Duke case. The case was decided in favor of the company this week.
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