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HuffPost UK
March 8, 2018
Last month, at a health centre in Jinja, Uganda, I met a young mother, who told me her story. Ten days earlier, she had unexpectedly tested positive for HIV. The health centre was crowded and so after she got her diagnosis, the midwife only had time to give her the antiretroviral therapy (ART) medicationÃâà...
The Daily Eastern News
March 8, 2018
He worked for the 2008 presidential campaign while living in Indiana, and has been involved in grassroots organizations and activist work. ... While he said universal health care would be helpful, Gaither added that what needs to be fixed first is getting people access to healthcare providers such asÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
So serious is the Trump administration's review of the chip maker's takeover bid for Qualcomm that Broadcom has pledged to advance the American lead in 5G wireless research and to create a $1.5 billion fund to train U.S. engineers. Broadcom's legally headquartered in Singapore for now, but MichaelÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
At stake is the future of the nation's veterans health care system. For now at least, it appears moderation has prevailed, with the Veterans Affairs secretary, David J. Shulkin, thwarting a pitched conservative push to drive him out. “It's my job as secretary to get the organization singly focused on making theÃâà...
HuffPost
March 7, 2018
Laura Moser, the activist and writer who withstood the broadside from the House Democrats' campaign arm, emerged as one of the party's two potential ... For her part, Moser's bold positions and deep roots in the resistance drew the backing of local activists and national organizations like Democracy forÃâà...
mySanAntonio.com
March 6, 2018
As a member of organizations like Little Lobbyists, Protect Texas Fragile Kids and Health Care Voter — and most importantly, as a mom — I am one of the many activists across the country fighting for our right to affordable health care. While policy leaders continue to use us as pawns in negotiations andÃâà...
Racked
March 5, 2018
Davis, an editor and the founder of an activist organization called Rally+Rise, knows that it might. But her feelings indicate a real missed ... It's a design problem, and one that some activists and candidates seeking office in this year's midterm elections are trying to rectify. Until late September, 64 CooperÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 5, 2018
"If it's one thing I learned from being a part of Selma it's that an activist is someone who lives their life for what they believe in and works for that cause every day,” Common said in a statement prior to tonight's show. "The activists we asked to join us onstage are people who have dedicated their lives toÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 1, 2018
The feud reflects long-standing divisions within the anti-abortion movement across the country. While some organizations and anti-abortion activists favor a hardline, total ban on abortion, others are willing to endorse incremental measures, with the ultimate aim of banning abortion seen as more of a distantÃâà...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
The organization will be using the funds to target gubernatorial and Senate races in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, ... politicians at state and federal levels who have supported dangerous policies meant to strip us of our rights and our ability to access health care," Deidre Schifeling,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 1, 2018
The NRA's TV channel stresses the organization's size and the importance of guns to staying alive in the US. Photograph: ... Activists and celebrities have led calls for Apple, Amazon, Google and Roku to remove NRATV from their streaming platforms, as companies have divested from the lobbying group.
Rewire
February 27, 2018
A prominent Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is taking on the Trump administration's health-care discrimination wing. ... with the same health conditions,” according to a blog post from the organization explaining that health care in the United States already works against transgender patients.
TeenVogue.com
February 27, 2018
The theme for this year's 1 in 3 Abortion Speakout is “Justice for Jane” and will be dedicated to the undocumented minors the Trump Administration attempted to deny reproductive health care. The Justice for Jane speakout will take place on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, February 27, and will be livestreamedÃâà...
HuffPost
February 19, 2018
But when he unveiled the United States of Care, a bipartisan health care initiative that would advance the cause of universal coverage by “putting .... So, to be clear, this is not an organization that is about assembling people from all points of view and siphoning out the lowest common denominator of ideas.
CNN
February 13, 2018
The organization, its partners, policymakers and activists plan to advance initiatives in all 50 states by the end of the year. "This really is growing out of an unprecedented grass-roots movement across the country," Danielle Wells, Planned Parenthood's assistant director of state policy media, told CNN.
Davis Enterprise
December 31, 1999
“I feel great knowing I can support candidates and make a difference anywhere in the United States.” The Postcards to Voters organization supplies volunteers with addresses of registered Democrats and Independents, along with key messages for each postcard. Every word is handwritten and from the heart. “I feel like I'mÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
December 31, 1999
If we are to transform society in a radical, anticapitalist manner we need an organization of organizers and activists that democratically decides and collectively carries out political activity. Such an organization must be rooted in an increasingly diverse working class. It is only this class that has the power toÃâà...
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