Another Doctor Gag Rule
Before I was a nurse, I was an Emergency Medical Technician, and later, the OSHA nurse in one of my jobs. One day I was working in the community, and asked to deal with a situation. A man who lived in a building thought he was exposed to some floor-stripping chemicals used in a renovation. [...]
How Government Preys on the Poor
Barbara Ehrenreich has a new blog called Economichardship.org, which talks about how the Great Recession is impacting regular folk. This article has some information on how government and law enforcement are getting into the business of making money off the poor. At the local level though, government is increasingly opting to join in the looting. [...]
How to Lose Friends yet Influence Elections
Reblogged from Joe Mohr's Cartoon Archive: The next edition of this board game hopefully won’t have that card included… More on Citizens United and Super PACs From HuffPo: Citizens United and Contributions to Super PACs: A Little History Is in Order From Salon: The hard truth about Citizens United From Open Secrets: Super PACs (full [...]
Maybe the Government Needs to Regulate CEO Pay
After adjusting for inflation, we pay CEOs today four times what they made in the 1970′s. Pay-for-performance is the idea behind exorbitant CEO pay, but the fact is that CEO’s make big money whether their companies perform or not. CEO pay is a problem that is affecting us all as we struggle to afford housing, [...]
Raimondo and Salvatore dispute his departure from her office
Reblogged from On Politics: The office of State Treasurer Gina Raimondo has released the following response to claims by Providence City Councilor David Salvatore that he was fired, in violation of his free speech rights: David Salvatore’s allegation is absolutely untrue. Treasurer Raimondo continues to encourage all stakeholders – including Councilman Salvatore – to engage [...]
Frog March
Several jobs ago I witnessed this, and I’ll never forget it. One of my co-workers, who had held a responsible position, was walked out of the office by two security guards. He looked stunned. His offense? He had sent a vulgar email on a company computer, on work time, to a co-worker who did not [...]
Out Of Eden; When The Private Prison Bubble Bursts
Reblogged from National Corrections Oversight Coalition: Last week, it emerged that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) had sent a letter to 48 states offering to take their prisons off their hand in exchange for a quick infusion of cash. The only small catch was that the states would have to sign a contract guaranteeing [...]
Internet Censorship and SOPA
by Elaine Hirsch What is the future of SOPA? In October of 2011, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, along with its Senate counterpart, Protect Internet Providers Act (PIPA). Ostensibly designed to strengthen legal responses against the illegal distribution of copyrighted material, these bills caused a firestorm [...]
Phew — Now If We Can Get Komen to Focus on Prevention as well as Cure
The Susan G. Komen foundation just released a letter stating that they will continue to fund Planned Parenthood. Well, that’s a relief, but only a small one for me. The big thing I worry about in cancer activism is that the corporate influence is pushing us to look too much toward treatment and not enough [...]
Letter to Treasurer Raimondo
A group of civil rights and advocacy organizations in Rhode Island is calling Treasurer Raimondo’s attention to some of the extreme political positions taken by The Manhattan Institute and demanding that she return the award she recently received: January 11, 2011 Hon. Gina Raimondo, General Treasurer State House, Room 102 Providence, RI 02903 Dear Treasurer [...]
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