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.
Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
The author argues that “intersectionality is less valuable as an explanatory framework than as an ideological reflection of the times.”
Alex Vitale: civilian agencies not cops should deal with social problems; Kyle Mays on
The Black Star Action Network International, founded in Tampa, Florida, is leading a “Be Clean” community sanitation and hygiene” campaign in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the Pan Africanist organi
Policing killings in Black areas “will continue on a much wider scale” when president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, widely viewed as a fascist and racist, takes office on the first of the year, said
