New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that …
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Stop the Guerrilla War Against Obamacare, Let My People Live!
Little Rock Being a commuter these days between New Orleans and Little Rock, it is interesting to watch the convolutions that Arkansas and its legislature are going through to try and fashion a partnership with the federal government to run the health care exchange option under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. Time is ticking …
The Water Wars and Bloqueos “Every Day”
Cochabamba I had met Oscar Olivera in 2003 at the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, but in the way of these things, it was a passing acquaintance at a meeting of unions who were fighting water privatization I attended along with Luis Isarra Delgado, our partner with the water workers of FENTAP in Peru, …