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Hunting Votes for “The Hawk”

by Jon Flanders November 5, 2013 The New York Thruway from Troy to Syracuse spends some time winding by the Mohawk Barge Canal. On an early November morning, the slanting sun lit up mists over the hills and water but in its construction the Thruway allows no stopping points for a photographer to find a picture. So no stopping for a view, just pedal to the metal all the way to Howie Hawkins’s campaign headquarters in Syracuse, where a youthful crew of supporters gathered on a Saturday morning to go out and roust out voters for the Hawkins city council…


Why I vote for the Green Party

by Mark A. Dunlea Green Party NY The Green Party doesn’t have a monopoly on the truth. They just state and campaign for what is common sense, an agenda that reflects the positions and interests of the 99%. The Green agenda. A single payer Medicare for All health system. A minimum wage that is a living wage not a sub poverty wage. Taking action on climate change with a Green New Deal – cut the military by at least half and tax the rich (including a stock transfer tax) to pay for a full employment public jobs program and $300…


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The ACA is the Wrong Direction, Time for Medicare for All

October 21, 2013 Green Shadow Cabinet Also published by Physicians for a National Health Program Margaret Flowers, Secretary of Health in the Green Shadow Cabinet In what is perhaps the greatest corporate scam ever, not only did the health insurance corporations write the federal health law, called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to enhance their profits, but now they also have the government and non-profit groups doing the work of marketing their shoddy products. The foundation of the ACA, the mandate that uninsured individuals purchase private insurance if they do not qualify for public insurance, begins in 2014 and the…


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Reasons to Lose Sleep over the Shutdown and Obamacare

by Scott McLarty Common Dreams, October 6, 2013 Sure, the government shutdown and Republican demands regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are reprehensible, but let’s not delude ourselves about the ACA itself. It’s needlessly complex. It preserves medical treatment as a commodity rather than a right: low-cost policies will provide low-quality insurance. It imposes a direct public subsidy to feed the insurance industry, which helped write the legislation. It isn’t universal. Millions of people who lacked it will now have health insurance, but the coverage they get won’t approach the level of health-care access guaranteed to every citizen in every…


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Greens’ Civil Actions to Democratize the Electoral College Revives a Lost Motive behind the March on Washington

by Asa Gordon Executive Director, Douglass Institute of Government Chair, DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Taskforce Jonathan Yardley’s book review “The Lost motive behind the march” (The Washington Post, Sunday, August 25, 2013, B8) of ‘The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights ‘ by William P. Jones specifies a lost motive behind the March to remedy voter disfranchisement ignored in recent 50th Anniversary celebrations of the March on Washington. Yardley exposes Jones revelation that: “Initially the march’s organizers demanded ‘federal jobs creation, raising the minimum wage, a Fair Employment Practice law, and support…