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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Illinois ‘care’ a disaster
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Illinois ‘care’ a disaster Chicago–The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services on May 1 implemented a five-year pilot program and the state’s first Integrated Care Program for older adults and … Continue reading
No to ‘Secure Community’
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: No ‘Secure Community’ Los Angeles–On Aug. 13 the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles (CHIRLA), held a press conference against Secure Community (SC), the federal government program that allows local … Continue reading
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Tagged car impoundment, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA), domestic violence, Homeland Security Task Force Advisory Council, ICE, immigrants' rights, immigration, Isaura Garcia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Mayor Villaraigosa, New York Times, Police, R.I.P. S.O. 40, San Bernardino Police, Secure Communities, South Gate, Southern California Immigration Coalition, Special Order 40, street vendors, Task force, Terminate Secure Community, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security
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Women World Wide, September-October 2011
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Women World Wide by Artemis Unite Here, a union for service workers, has filed charges against the management of Hyatt Hotels for turning heat lamps on hotel housekeepers picketing the Chicago … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Bev Perdue, Beverly Perdue, Birmingham, Center for Inquiry-West in Los Angeles, Chicago Hyatt Hotel, Contraception, Elaine Riddick, ex-gay therapy, feminism, forcible sterilization, gender, global gag rule, Governor's Task Force to Determine the Method of Compensation for Victims of North Carolina's Eugenics Board, healthcare for women, labor unions, Mexico City Policy, North Carolina, Reproductive rights, Survivors of Institutional Abuse, UK Feminista 2011 Summer School, UN Population Fund, Unite Here, United Nations Population Fund, women workers, women's liberation
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Queer Notes, September-October 2011
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Queer Notes by Suzanne Rose While returning from a bar last month in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, three men were detained by the police because they thought two of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameroon, criminal injustice system, Denver immigration judge Mimi Tsankov, Executive Director of Freedom and Roam Uganda, gay rights, glbt, Iowa, Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, Lambda Legal, lgbt, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland's Foyle Pride Festival, Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance, Philadelphia's Youth Study Center, Pink News, Police brutality, queer liberation, Sujey Pando, transgender, undocumented immigrants from Mexico, United States, Violence against LGBT people, Violeta Pando, Yaoundé
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‘A Strange Stirring’ book review
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: ‘A Strange Stirring’ A Strange Stirring: ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, by Stephanie Coontz (Basic Books, New York), 2011. A Strange Stirring is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, African Americans, alienation, Betty Friedan, Black, Civil rights movement, Feminine Mystique, feminism, freedom now movement, hierarchy of needs, McCarthyism, National Organization for Women, race, racism, sexism, Sigmund Freud, Stephanie Coontz, United States, women's liberation movement
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Expose demonization of Black Gay youth
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Expose demonization of Black Gay youth From left: Benjamin Perry, Ed Negron, Darrell Gordon, Betty Akins. Chicago—Editor’s note: News and Letters Committees hosted a forum in our Chicago office on Aug. … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Benjamin Perry, Bernie Hansen, Betty Akins, Black, Boystown Chicago, Center on Halsted, Chicago, Darrell Gordon, Ed Negron, Gender JUST, homophobia, Illinois, Lakeview, lgbt, News and Letters Committees, queer, racism, The Nearest Shore, transgender, United States
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Workshop Talks: ER certainties: death and co-pays
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Workshop Talks: ER certainties: death and co-pays by Htun Lin A patient shows up in the emergency room, expecting care, and wanting to be seen by a doctor. But the gulf … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, class war, Dehumanization, Health care, Health maintenance organization, healthcare, HMO, labor, Patient, Twilight Zone, workers
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World in View: British youth revolt
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: World in View: British youth revolt by Gerry Emmett The killing of 24-year-old Mark Duggan by London police on Aug. 6 set off the largest urban rebellion in Britain in decades. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Philosophic Handbook of Urban Rebellion, Birmingham, Brighton, British working-class and Black communities, Brixton rebellion of 1981, Broadwater Farm riot, Cynthia Jarrett, David Cameron, David Cameron's 'Big Society', Detroit Rebellion of 1967, economic crisis, Labour Party, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992, Manchester, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Duggan, News of the World, Nottingham, Police brutality, race, racism, Rupert Murdoch, Tottenham, Unison
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World in View: Israel: ‘Egypt is here’
From the September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: World in View: Israel: ‘Egypt is here’ by Gerry Emmett Israel has seen an unprecedented protest movement grow in the wake of the Arab Spring. Around 250,000 people marched through Tel … Continue reading
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