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.
The media advocacy group Free Press will go to court to reverse the FCC’s gutting of internet neutrality protections, said spokesperson Tim Karr.
On December 1, our comrade and friend Akinyele Umoja published a piece titled “’
“Putin exposed the U.S. alliance with al Qaida on the world stage.”
“The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road.”
“Are whites so committed to the modern day slave patrol that they will allow no one justice, even those who look like them?”
