Little Rock Atul Gawande is best known to many of us as a doctor who writes important articles about healthcare in the New Yorker magazine. To his patients he is known as a good surgeon in Boston, and to other surgeons, he is also known as someone who advocates and develops simple checklists for other …
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Celebrating Barbara Bowen
New Orleans There is no way that anything I can write would do complete justice to the life and work of Barbara Bowen, my friend and comrade for over 40 years, but luckily I don’t really need to because her life and work was about justice and she lived it exactly that way from beginning …
Living Wages from Boston to Canada
Boston Talking to organizers the last night about security workers being subcontracted, one casually mentioned what could and could not be done because of the Boston Living Wage ordinance. At Boston University with Professor Lee Staples as we made the case and claims for the power of community organizing it was natural to once again …