Grassroots supporters of Howie Hawkins’ Green Party campaign for Governor of New York are holding an online “money bloom” today, Friday 22 October, with the goal of raising $10,000 for voter outreach.

More than 100 candidates have endorsed the Green New Deal, a 10-point program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability. Join them today.

To get America back on the right track, we need an ambitious program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability. It’s time for a Green New Deal.

Ten Strategic Local Campaigns

#1: Locally Grown Organic Food
#2: Local Currencies and Community Banks
#3: Health Care Access, Including Natural and Integrative Medicine

I like solutions, we don’t really have people with solutions in our government these days, we won’t go there for now, but here’s one solution to our continuing crisis and emergency, in our disgraceful Health Care Industry..(that leaves us 42nd in life expectancy world wide and 37th in Health Care according to The W.H.O. as you all know), and one solution one I favor is a 2% Federal Sales Tax to correspond with doing away with the Penny…

Has race played a role in the health care debate? Of course it has. Just not the role everyone says it does.

(Also at Nevada Progressive)

It’s sad enough that feminist and labor activist Crystal Lee Sutton has just passed away. But now, it’s even sadder to learn why she’s gone.

We need to remember the economic rationale behind law suits. You sue when someone fails and the cost of their failure doesn’t fall on them. A law suit shifts the burden to the responsible party. Punitive damages is for egregious failure, avoidable failure or intentional failure.

Now, how do you set a limit on the cost of failure before the failure occurs?

The A.M.A’s opposition to the creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan provides an object lesson on how to think.

HR 676, HR 1200 and S 703 are single payer bills currently wending through Congress. This is the my first assessment of the structure of the bills. More detail may follow if folks are interested.