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Showing videos filed under: California Nurses Association
Karen Higgins: Nurses United for Health
April 9, 2010The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.Karen Higgins, Paul Rogat Loeb, and Workplace Safety
April 8, 2010The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.Week in Review: Women's Health Crisis Affects us All
October 24, 2009Along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices For The Health Care We Need, and Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, Smith joined Laura on Monday to talk about the rampant inequalities in the existing health care system and to debate whether the proposed reforms in Congress go far enough.Nurses Protest Senate Healthcare Hearings
May 13, 2009Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse and co-president of the California Nurses Association, brings us up to date on continuing protests against the exclusion of single payer advocates at Senate Finance Committee hearings on healthcare. As the hearing began 25 protesters stood and turned their backs to the senators. They were wearing signs that called on congress to pass a single payer system.The Politics of Food, Nurses for Single Payer, and Mike Farrell
May 12, 2009From industrial agriculture and human health to the recession's impact on the way we eat, food and politics are not easily separated. In fact they never have been. As lines at food banks swell and restaurants close their doors what control do we have over the food we eat? Peter Hoffman, chef and owner of Savoy Restaurant and Back Forty, Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved:Changing the Platform: Healthcare not Warfare
August 27, 2008“We will not fix the health care crisis by selling more for profit private health insurance,” says Donna Smith, Co-Chair of the Healthcare Not Warfare Campaign and a member of Progressive Democrats of America. Though most Americans support single payer healthcare language guaranteeing healthcare for everyone was absent from the Party’s platform.Live From Denver: Is This A Game Changer?
August 26, 2008Is this a Game Changer Convention? What does it take to move a single popular proposal onto the party platform. And on the night that Hillary Clinton takes the stage -- and we mark the passage of the 19th Amendment -- we ask can women's rights really be divorced from disarmament?
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