BY Peter Shapiro | United States | 4/06/10
Passage of President Obama’s health care reform in late March made for great political theater. Here was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, skillfully maneuvering the bill through Congress after many had given it up for lost.
BY Peter Shapiro | United States | 11/30/09
Insurance company profiteering has laid waste to the U.S. health care system and sparked a wave of protest throughout the U.S. But the response of Congress to the crisis suggests that the battle is just beginning.
BY Fernando Figueroa | Daytona, FL | 11/17/09
On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, a group of students, workers and community activists protested against a reactionary Tea Party rally in Daytona.
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, Il | 11/04/09
“We won!” Text messages with those words went out the night of Nov. 3 from the SK Hand Tool strikers to family members and supporters. Reports went right to the fact that the SK Hand Tool workers will have health insurance.
BY Fight Back! Editors | United States | 10/06/09
The time is now to fight for health care reform for working people, not for profit-making insurance companies. The best way to do this is a single-payer plan.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/22/09
Norma Trinidad and 20 of her co-workers stood in front of the Sears store on Dearborn Street in Chicago’s Loop, Sept. 18, handing fliers to people as they walked past.
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, IL | 9/05/09
As the strike at SK Hand Tool moves into its second week, it is clear it is picking up momentum.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/01/09
The strike by members of Teamster local 743 for health care at SK Hand Tool has attracted national attention.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 8/27/09
When the owner of SK Hand Tools in Chicago unilaterally cut off health care benefits for his employees, he provoked a strike. As a result, the picket line of striking workers on Tuesday, Aug. 25, was also a health care rally.
BY Michael Graham | Asheville, NC | 7/01/09
People from all over western North Carolina protested here in Pritchard Park, June 27, to demand a single payer system in which health care is provided to all people, with those able to paying their fair share.
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