Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
one of those sweltering summer nights, City of Angels, run by devils… Cruising Imperial Highway heading westbound to the water when a newsflash interrupted
Margaret Kimberley on Russiagate, the scam that will not die; Sara Flounders: Facts be damnned, US war party won't accept defeat in Syria; NYPD "gang raids" a flimsy cover for mass arrests.
Mass arrests targeting hundreds of young Black and brown New Yorkers are based on false premises and hyped-up evidence, said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project (
“The real problem” the US confronts in Syria, said Sara Flounders, of the International Action Center, is that “every one of the forces that they have for eight years armed, equipp
Precisely because the claim of Wikileaks-Russian-Trump “collusion” remains unproven, the Democrats and the corporate media “have to find new ways of whipping up this story,” said BAR editor and sen
