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Healthcare is a right
I have written before about the high cost ($84K for a course of treatment) of Sovaldi, the new game-changing hepatitis…
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Stop hep C med profiteering!
I’ve been writing about Sovaldi, which is a new drug for hepatitis C. Sovaldi, made by Gilead, is indeed a…
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Can we rely on the courts to defend abortion rights?
On July 29, a three judge federal appeals panel blocked implementation of a TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion practitioners) law…
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NYC EMT responds to Eric Garner death
After seeing the way that emergency medical personnel in Staten Island responded to Eric Garner’s lifeless body, some people began…
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Struggle leads to progress: Medicaid & autism treatment
As Frederick Douglass famously said, “Without struggle there is no progress.” This has once again been proven correct as the…
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Seattle feminists protest at future Hobby Lobby site
A small but spirited group of protesters, mobilized by Women Organized to Resist and Defend, picketed at the site of…
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Democrats and reproductive rights
Abortion is treated in the media and by politicians as something so shameful that it should not be openly discussed,…
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The religion of money and control
This is a transcript of a speech written for Albuquerque’s protest against the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision. This assault…
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Can Senate Dems reverse Hobby Lobby ruling?
In the wake of the outrageous Hobby Lobby decision, Democratic politicians in the Senate are pushing a bill to require…
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