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.
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.”
NCOBRA's Kamm Howard on the stsatus and prospects for reparations legislation in the US House of Representatives now that John Conyers, the perennial sponsor of reparations legislation has retired.
With AFRICOM and its "soldier-to-soldier" relationships having taken the place of US African diplomacy in the last decade the US is positioned to exercise hegemonic power over Africans in their own
