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Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid

March 26, 2020 By gmoke 2 Comments

MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, disaster, economics, emergency, gandhi, Gandhian economics, health, mutual aid, nonviolence, pandemic, preparedness, public-health, r-buckminster-fuller, Rebecca Solnit

Crowd Sourcing Solutions to COVID19

March 23, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590 The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of patients and safety … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: cooperation, corona virus, COVID19, crowd sourcing, economics, health, pandemic, shelter in place, voluntary association

Cutting Lead Exposure Even More Beneficial to MA Kids Than We Thought

October 8, 2012 By thegreenmiles 10 Comments

As fears of childhood lead poisoning swept Boston in the 1980s, The Green Miles distinctly remembers being dragged to the doctor by The Green Mom to have his blood tested for lead poisoning, despite my protestations that no kid so wicked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, health, pollution

The Year’s Most Predictable “Bombshell”: Accountable Care Organizations Won’t Work

June 22, 2011 By Benjamin Day 6 Comments

WBUR's online health care blog, "CommonHealth," has a flashy headline article today titled  Massachusetts Attorney General Drops Health Reform Bombshell. What's the bombshell? That the state's proposal to control health care costs by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountable-care-organizations, attorney-general-martha-coakley, cost-control, deval-patrick, health, health premiums, health-care, health-care-costs, health-reform, managed-care

Federal House Republican Budget: Disaster For America. Worse For Massachusetts

April 6, 2011 By brian 20 Comments

Massachusetts would be disproportionately impacted by the Medicare cuts. As a relatively high-cost state, and with a major concentration of academic medical institutions that get extra Medicare reimbursements to allow them to teach the next … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: federal-budget, health, scott-brown

Connecting the Dots: GIC, Blue Cross, and the big picture

March 9, 2011 By Trickle up 5 Comments

My town has been trying to negotiate the GIC for the past two years. At one time every union but one had signed on to the idea, but that was not good enough under the law. The result of this stalemate is that we have sent about $4 million … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health, wealth, wisdom

CigRX Side Effects

January 27, 2011 By dupreze Leave a Comment

This product is a lozenge that is mint flavored. You let the lozenge dissolve in your mouth when you would normally have the desire to smoke and it reduces the desire to smoke on a temporary level. Before using any product you should check … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health

The Institute For Health and Recovery Calls on Yes on 1 Campaign To Pull Offensive Ads

October 29, 2010 By vote-no-on-1-ma 2 Comments

The Institute for Health and Recovery (IHR) called on the Yes on Question One campaign today to pull its "offensive and irresponsible" ads that feature a liquor store customer being slapped in the face, due to the demonstrated link between … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alcohol-tax, ballot-question, health, recovery

Ford Hall Forum: “AIDS, Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation” (9/30/10)

September 28, 2010 By aidsaction Leave a Comment

This event is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House, a museum and National Historic Landmark dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, as part of the Partners in Dialogue series. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aids, boston, discussion, drugs, event, forum, health, health-care, hiv, homophobia, lecture, poverty, racism, sexism, transphobia, violence

We failed the people who cleaned up 9/11. Will we fail the people cleaning up the Gulf?

June 29, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 1 Comment

In the aftermath of 9/11, we saw thousands of workers develop devastating respiratory conditions and other illnesses as a result of exposure to toxic dust that filled the air in the days and weeks after the twin towers fell. To this day, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, clean-energy, green-news, gulf-oil-spill, health, safety

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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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i hope that, when he speaks on its passage, Biden explicitly claims partisan credit for the bill. public should hear, loudly and clearly, that the money in their pockets is from the democratic party

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My legislation for more than $7 billion in E-Rate funding is included in the rescue package. It provides the Wi-Fi hotspots and devices needed to help all students connect to classrooms from home, especially those in communities of color, low-income households, and rural areas.

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It has been a very long night but we are about to pass a $1.9 trillion relief package for the American people. This is only just the beginning.

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The "Stefanik" section is 34 pages, "Zeldin" 24 pages, "Malliotakis" 18

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New: Rep. Zoe Lofgren has released a nearly 2,000 page report documenting the social media posts of GOP colleagues leading up to Jan. 6th who voted to overturn the results of the election. The report includes a breakdown of members by state.https://lofgren.house.gov/socialreview

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