Health Care

Alta Bates Summit nurses boldly strike for pensions and a contract

Berkeley, California Nurses at the three sites of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in Oakland and Berkeley went…

January 5, 2023

Why rail workers need paid sick days

On Dec. 1, 2022, congressional Democrats and Republicans came together in a bipartisan effort to shut down the railroad workers’…

December 22, 2022

Long COVID: a public health catastrophe

On Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still…

December 15, 2022

China and the cost of reversing COVID-19 policies

For months western media has been attacking China’s COVID policies, condemning them for causing enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid…

December 15, 2022

Health care in prisons is a crime

If you have the misfortune of being convicted of a crime, innocent or not, what’s it like behind bars if…

December 15, 2022

Un tribunal anula la prohibición del aborto en Georgia

Atlanta El 16 de noviembre, el juez del Tribunal Superior del Condado de Fulton, Robert McBurney, ordenó la restauración de…

November 30, 2022

Nicaragua’s humane response to COVID-19 crisis

When Nicaragua identified its first COVID-19 case on March 18, 2020, President Daniel Ortega understood that shutting down the economy…

November 28, 2022

Poor medical care for incarcerated people leads to deaths 

Elisa Serna was only 24 when she died, due to medical neglect at a San Diego County jail in 2019.…

November 25, 2022

Court overturns Georgia abortion ban

Atlanta  On Nov. 16, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the restoration of abortion regulations that existed prior…

November 23, 2022

Cleveland jail deaths: ‘This persistent neglect is intolerable’

The Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition issued the following statement Nov. 6 in response to three recent deaths in the jail,…

November 10, 2022