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 …
Category: Health Care
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 …
For the Poor the Supremes Have Brought the Fight for the Affordable Care Act Back to the States
New Orleans The great news is that Chief Justice John Roberts looked over his shoulder at history and found a way to provide the needed vote to uphold President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment and rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was constitutional yesterday. The decision is surrounded by dark clouds and rests on somewhat …