©08/2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Spanish translation below) When we shine that bright light, we will symbolically, literally and figuratively, open the eyes of many. And there are guys walking around right now who have glaucoma, who have eye damage, who have lens damage, who have retinal damage due to diabetes, and all of that can be treated, can be cured, or at least held at bay for a pittance. You know, laser [...]
by Joe Maniscalco, Work Bites https://portside.org/2025-07-16/medicare-advantage-such-threat-workers-they-wrote-paper-it This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.” In it, the authors remind labor leaders—including those in New York City who spent the last four years trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into Medicare Advantage—that Medicare Advantage is “neither Medicare (the public, universal program without intermediaries between patients and the healthcare [...]
From Protect Medicaid via moveon.org The House bill would rip away lifesaving health care from 16 million people. The Senate's proposed cuts are even harsher: The bill would impose damaging work requirements on Medicaid recipients that will take health care away from parents, people with disabilities, and patients with chronic illnesses. It will make it harder for people to enroll in Medicaid or maintain their coverage and eliminates coverage for people who [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the availability of approximately $52.5 million in grants for community-based organizations that provide suicide prevention or emergency clinical services to Veterans at risk of suicide. Grant applications are due by 4:59 p.m. ET, July 18, and VA will choose awardees by Sept. 30. Organizations can apply for grants worth up to $750,000 and may apply to renew awards from year to year throughout the length [...]
By Marilyn Cavanagh -Educator, social justice researcher, and transgender woman In an era where misinformation spreads at digital speed and court rulings roll back decades of hard-won rights, defending the right to inclusive education is not just a pedagogical urgency—it is an act of political resistance. The recent ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court—redefining the legal concept of “woman” to exclude trans women, even those with Gender Recognition Certificates—is not an isolated [...]
CalRX is making biosimilar insulin available to Californians who need it to treat diabetes at low cost, and has now extended the offered medication to include naloxone which is used to combat overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, to prevent fatalities. Insulin can be found here: https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/, and naloxone here: https://calrx.ca.gov/naloxone/ The state's website described the latter initiative as follows: $24 Over-the-Counter Naloxone by CalRx® The ongoing opioid overdose crisis across the nation [...]
By Jon Hochschartner I was pleased to learn cultivated pork fat produced by Mission Barns has gained the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. For those who don’t know, cultivated pork fat, like other cultivated products, is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. Once the offering gets the go-ahead from the Department of Agriculture, Mission Barns will introduce it at select restaurants and stores. “First and foremost, consumers won’t eat food [...]
The Dangers of Processed Meats by Keren Landman, MD https://link.vox.com/view/65c10f15857f73a0591000d9m55mj.2of9/666f6769 I am a person of nostalgic lunchmeat experience: One of the deepest gustatory pleasures of my childhood involved stripping a bologna round of its red plastic casing, slicking on a generous smear of mayonnaise, twirling it into a rubbery tube — or a cone, in the occasional case of a pickle cameo — and quickly devouring it. But even I have to [...]
CalCare - Single Payer Medicare coverage for all in California Health Care for US (HC4US) advocates for comprehensive, high-quality universal health care through single-payer public financing. Our goal is to guarantee health care as a human right for ALL California residents, advancing the larger fight for health care justice and energizing the implementation of national Single-Payer/Medicare for All. HC4US is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of volunteers. We partner with the California Nurses [...]
LA Man Sues For Cell Tower Antenna Injuries Elijah Carder sustained serious injuries from wireless antennas installed by T-Mobile This could happen to anyone in our communities. Support those fighting for all of our health & safety. Carder has filed a case in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angele and is suing former landlord South Pasadena Heights Apartments and T-Mobile USA, Inc. for injuries, pain, negligence, and severe emotional [...]
Open Letter by Leaders and Members of the DSA LA Health Justice Committee September, 2023 We are members of the Health Justice Committee of the second largest chapter of the largest socialist group in the United States, namely the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA-LA). We also work in a close coalition with members of Health Care for Us (HC4US), and with independent socialists who are members of [...]
Constant Lockdowns Are Having a Devastating Effect on Peltier’s Health, Cousin Says Excerpts from TruthOut Paulette D’Auteuil-Robideau, Peltier’s cousin, lives in Gainesville, Florida, not far from Coleman. She serves on the board of the new Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee, as well as of the Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners. D’Auteuil-Robideau has traveled across the world to talk to audiences about Peltier and the plight of political prisoners, the [...]
