Louisiana State Senator and head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, Karen Carter, speaks before the Local 100 United Labor Unions leadership conference that was held on July 21st, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Here, Senator Carter talks about the impacts of the healthcare cuts across Louisiana and the work that is needed to rebuild the …
Category: Health Care
Salud Promodores, Barefoot Doctors, Home Health Workers, and Iranian Health Houses Come Knocking
New Orleans In organizing the process of strengthening weak ties to build the strong welds of solidarity can be very personal, tediously time consuming and therefore prohibitively expensive, and involve huge scale human engineering in order to create deep organizations, which is partly why organizers use other tools like actions and demonstrations to achieve scale …
Big Mistakes on Countrywide and Healthcare Polls
New Orleans Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …