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.
Dr Clyde Robertson will oversee three days of events marking three centuries of Black experience in New Orleans, beginning January 18.
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
The peace movement “must recognize that war is an instrument of class rule, and that we have to overthrow this enemy and build and new society, on a new basis,” said Ajamu Baraka,
Reigniting Dr Martin Luther King’s movement against the “triple evils” of racism, militarism and materialism “requires a very tough ideological struggle against the neoliberal elite, including thos
My comrade and colleague Glen Ford observed last month that our words here at Black Agenda Report are or ought to be weapons. He's right.
