If you're scared . . .
Yeah, I'm scared, I think we're all scared. I'm thinking about Americans losing their homes, sleeping in their cars. I'm thinking about Americans losing their jobs and their health care. I'm thinking...
View ArticleAs many predicted, health insurance costs skyrocketing, insured Americans...
As the debate played out during the contentious summer of 2009 before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, many were deeply concerned that the insurance industry would escalate its war against the...
View Article#ows unaffordable healthcare + sharply dropping income= death for the 99%
I went to Occupy Wall Street the other day. It's remarkable. I haven't seen anything like this since the 1960s during the peak of the Vietnam War. Something is happening, it's real, you can feel it in...
View ArticleWendell Potter: AHIP, you're next, Occupy Wall Street coming after you
Preach it, Wendell.In a masterful article, Kossack Wendell Potter, predicts that AHIP and the for-profit insurance industry, the American system of for-profit health care is high (very high) on the...
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ALL HANDS: #ows soon to be under siege Tweet @NYCMayorsOffice
We need a real show of force, remember what you guys did for Nataline Sarkisyan, we need that outpouring again.Please man your battle stations and begin relentless tweeting to Mayor Bloomberg...
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On the front lines in Times Square, NYPD in full fight mode
Before I tell you about this extraordinary day, I need to get something off my chest. I've been waiting since November 4th, 2000 for this day to arrive. When our election was stolen, I was ready to...
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Protesters document NYPD horses ramming in Times Sq. make this video viral...
These two videos of violent NYPD crowd control using horses to ram into non-violent protesters (the second video is below the fold) deserve viral attention. The videos shows in horrifying detail what...
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Taking back our country is hard work: The ABCs of organizing a march against...
We're organizing a large march against the for-profit health insurance corporations for October 26th. We hope thousands will join us to demand real healthcare reform. Single payer, Medicare for...
View ArticleFox and OWS: Sean Hannity, what happened to my interview? UPDATE: with video
Fox is doing it's level best to portray OWS as a coven of demented hippies. Jesse LaGreca was interviewed by them several weeks ago and fortunately there was another video camera which captured the...
View ArticleALL HANDS: Need show of force today in NYC #OWS march against Murder By...
Had enough?Uninsured?Wondering where's the 'affordable' healthcare we were promised?Sick of bought and paid for politicians?MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD TODAY - AT OCCUPY WALL STREETHealthcare for the 99%,...
View ArticleMajor police activity #OWS thousands have taken over lower Broadway in NYC -...
Apologies for this brief diary.Happening at this moment. Live streaming by Ustream
View ArticleMy friend, NYPD Captain John D'Adamo, protecting our First Amendment rights
Given the terrible police brutality in Oakland, I wrote a comment in brooklynbadboy's diary about the wonderful NYPD police captain I had the pleasure of working with yesterday. Several people...
View ArticleNYPD & FDNY in Zuccotti Park removing generators - live on Ustream
People, the FDNY and NYPD are in Zuccotti Park removing the bio diesel fuel generators.I've spent considerable time at Z Park, and there are a few generators, one for example, providing light for the...
View ArticleDemand winter tenting for ALL #ows cold weather locations UPDATE: Ustream now...
There is snow in New York today. We really need to get in front of the problem of a winter occupation.I'm going to speak now of the City of New York, the government of Mayor Bloomberg, the city where I...
View ArticleFOIA request reveals Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Properties heavily...
There's important new information turning up about Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, thanks to a FOIA filing by a wonderful web site called Good Jobs New York.Who owns subsidized the...
View ArticleBlistering indictment of U.S. healthcare system from Dr. Oz explains why we...
There was a free health clinic recently held in Los Angeles. Dr Mehmet Oz was one of the volunteer doctors, and he's written a particularly scathing and brutal article in Time magazine about what he...
View ArticleALL HANDS: Health insurance catastrophe unfolding in New York, why we must...
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield which is the largest insurer in New York State, (owned by Wellpoint) is effectively pulling out of the small group market, effective April 12, 2012.I have my small group...
View ArticleJack Abramoff is only half the story, the other half starts with the letter 'D'
Lefty Coaster has a terrific diary on political corruption a la Jack Abramoff. But that's only half the story.Jack Abramoff was on 60 Minutes last night talking about corruption in the halls of power....
View ArticleALL HANDS: If you live in NY, you need to go to Zuccotti Park now
This is going to be very short. Based on the text alert system established by OWS, thousands are expected to converge on Zuccotti Park within the next hour or two.Here's a copy of Judge Stallman's...
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Very disturbing videos of NYPD
On Wednesday evening, November 16th, I had an appointment to meet someone at the Starbucks next to Zuccotti Park.We spent several hours talking. After we finished it was probably around 8 or 8:30, I...
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