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Medicare for AllThe Koch Brothers: Behind New Strategy Against M4A?
We talk with Ben Palmquist from Partners for Dignity & Rights about a new anti-single payer bill in the Florida state legislature that would require a two-thirds supermajority to pass a single payer bill in the state. We segue into a larger conversation about the various opposition groups that have sprung up against Medicare for All and how the Florida bill is part of a trend of attacks on both healthcare and democracy.
Show Notes
Ben and Stephanie speak with guest Ben Palmquist, Program Director, Health Care and Economic Democracy, at Partners for Dignity and Rights...
2021-04-2328 min
Les Chroniques de l'Export : Tech & ServicesDe retour du CES 2021 - French IoT et Search MobilityLes conférences sont terminées, seule la plateforme de rendez-vous reste ouverte pour ce CES 2021.
L'occasion de faire des premiers retours avec Victoria Pagnon du programme French IoT de la Poste, et Nawel Nesri, COO de Search Mobility.
Echange présenté par Maxime Sabahec.
2021-01-1520 min
The Next System PodcastGuest Podcast! The Next World Podcast on Reparations, the Green New Deal, and the School to Prison PipelineThis week we're featuring a podcast from our peers at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. The Next World: A Podcast About Building Movements focuses on a range of topics that will resonate with listeners interested in a more equitable and democratic economy. In this episode, Co-hosts Puck Lo and journalist Sarah Lazare are in conversation about reparations, the Green New Deal, capitalism, and an exploration of the fight against the school to prison pipeline with guest Zakiya Sankara-Jabar of Dignity in Schools Campaign. See more info at https://nesri.org, https://inthesetimes.com, and http://dignity...
2019-10-0142 min
The Next WorldGuest Episode! The Next System PodcastThis month we are excited to host a podcast from our friends at The Next System Podcast, published by The Next System Project. This episode features the podcast's host, Adam Simpson, discussing a wide range of policy proposals with his colleagues that aim to transform the economy, from public ownership of banks to a national housing guarantee and beyond. This conversation offers a strong rebuttal to the neoliberal conception of "wish-list economics" that tells working people that they're asking for too much. You can follow The Next System Project at thenextsystem.org/podcast.Stay subscribed, and get...
2019-10-0154 minThe Next WorldDiana Nucera and Jenny Lee on Technology, Catastrophe Bonds, and Surviving ApocalypseSurviving the Apocalypse (But Not How You Might Think).Artist, educator and organizer Diana Nucera and Allied Media Projects executive director Jenny Lee join host Puck Lo to discuss technology, organizing, catastrophe bonds, and how to survive times of crisis and apocalypse.Diana Nucera, aka Mother Cyborg, is an artist, educator, and community organizer that explores innovative technology with communities most impacted by the digital divide. Her specialty is developing popular education experiences, supported by dynamic documentation that empower communities to use media and technology as visionary tools. In 2009 Diana co-founded the Detroit Digital Justice...
2019-09-0138 minThe Next WorldAmina Massey and Wendi Cooper on LGBT Rights, Culture, Policing, and Louisiana's "Crime Against Nature" LawThis month, Amina Massey joins host Puck Lo and guest Wendi Cooper for a conversation on on LGBT Rights, Police, and Louisiana's "Crime Against Nature" Law.Amina Massey is a medical sociologist, health educator, researcher, interviewer, photographer, writer, musician and artist. Her work as a medical sociologist looks at social determinants of health, chronic illness and systemic disenfranchisement.Wendi Cooper is a transgender woman of color and a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She is program coordinator for TRANScending Women and CANScantSTAND at Operation Restoration. She has been a healthcare provider and mental health professional...
2019-08-0133 minThe Next WorldKristina Kay Robinson and Ashana Bigard on Education Reform, the School to Prison Pipeline, and HomeOnce a month, we explore and celebrate the work of poor people's movements, especially in the U.S. We highlight systemic organizing led by women, LGBT folks, and people of color, pushing forward new models for change. You can read more about these issues on the website of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, nesri.orgThis month, Kristina Kay Robinson joins host Puck Lo and guest Ashana Bigard for a conversation on so-called "Education Reform," the School to Prison Pipeline, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the idea of Home.Kristina Kay Robinson is...
2019-07-0344 min
The Next WorldSarah Lazare and Zakiya Sankara-Jabar on Reparations, the Green New Deal, and the School to Prison PipelineCo-hosts Puck Lo and journalist Sarah Lazare in conversation about reparations, the Green New Deal, capitalism, and an exploration of the fight against the school to prison pipeline with guest Zakiya Sankara-Jabar of Dignity in Schools Campaign. See more info at https://nesri.org, https://inthesetimes.com, and http://dignityinschools.org.Support the show
2019-05-0141 min
Historia UniversalisHU024 – Von ʿOsmân und Orḫan. Die Frühzeit der OsmanenIn der 24. Folge erzählt uns Elias von den ersten Jahren der osmanischen Herrschaft in Anatolien. Auch erfahren wir etwas über die Herkunft der Osmanen beziehungsweise der Turkmenen, als auch wie die Türken überhaupt in die Türkei kamen. Aber auch wie der Islam seinen Weg auf den Balkan fand und welche Rolle die Derwischorden spielten wird in dieser Episode erklärt.
Wollt ihr mehr zum Thema erfahren, so empfehlen wir euch folgende Werke:
Cahen, Claude: Pre-Ottoman Turkey. A general survey of the material and spiritual cultur and history c. 1071-1330, London 1968.
Elsie, Robert: Der Islam u...
2018-08-261h 02
Interviews for ResistanceA New Social Contract, with Cathy Albisa<p>It can be so easy to get bogged down in the unending horrors coming from the news every day. But while we get stuck watching the bad news, organizers across the country have been engaged in creating solutions that democratize the economy, broaden participation, and fundamentally change our society for the better. A new report from the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative looks at these efforts and pulls them together to lay a blueprint for "A New Social Contract," and NESRI's executive director Cathy Albisa took the time to explain what the report entails a...
2018-06-1402 min
NESRI's PodcastTake Back the Land Panel at the Left Forum - June 2013Take Back the Land organized a panel entitled "Social Movements and Left Transformative Organizing" at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York City in June, 2013.
This podcast features highlights from the panel of organizers and activists discussing the challenges and successes they've had in securing the fundamental human right to housing through Take Back the Land. Panelists include Rob Robinson and Max Rameau from Take Back the Land and Willie J.R. Fleming and Toussaint Losier from the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.
To learn more about the Take Back the Land movement, visit TBTL.org. To learn more about...
2013-10-0338 min
NESRI's PodcastThird Way Models: Community Land Trusts as radical transformationBrittany Scott of NESRI's Human Right to Housing Program presents a short introduction to 3 Interim Proposals for how the housing movement might lock-in models of land transformation during the 2012 Spring Offensive (a co-production with Take Back the Land & Movement Catalyst).
An introductory presentation on Community Land Trusts as a specific legal tool for this radical transformation follows, led by Sam Miller and Kendall Jackman of Picture the Homeless.
2 powerpoints were used. The first is available at: http://bit.ly/xp8ibx. The second at:
2012-02-1751 min
2011-04-2101 min
NESRI's PodcastPeople’s Budget Report: Vermont falls short of protecting economic and social rightsHost Traven Leyshon, of Equal Time radio, features Anja Rudiger and Peg Franzen to discuss findings of the Vermont Workers’ Center's People's Budget Project.
2011-03-0226 minNESRI's PodcastEpisode 13: The Human Right to Health CareOn March 29, 2010, the Opportunity Agenda organized a National Telebriefing on the Human Right to Health Care in collaboration with NESRI and Amnesty International. In the one hour briefing Anja Rudiger, Human Right to Health Program Director at NESRI, Rachel Ward of Amnesty International and Julie Rowe of the Opportunity Agenda, analyzed the recent health reform law through a human rights lens, focusing on the impact of the law, including on maternal health, and on how to communicate health reform issues within a human rights framework.
The following podcast is one hour long. Anja Rudiger speaks from minute 4 to minute 26:40. Rachel...
2010-04-301h 00
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 12: Dignity in Schools Campaign on Justice4Children Blog Talk RadioHost Theresa Edwards featured the Dignity in Schools Campaign on the Justice4Children Radio Program to discuss the National Resolution for Ending School Pushout and concrete policy reforms to end pushout. Guest speakers included Benetta Standly from the ACLU of Florida, a high school student member of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) in New York City, and Liz Sullivan of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. You can also access the show at www.blogtalkradio.com/wakeupcallshow.
2009-12-092h 07NESRI's PodcastEpisode 11: WRFG's Class Chronicles Discusses the Human Right to HousingOn November 18, 2009, WRFG's (Radio Free Georgia - http://wrfg.org) Class Chronicles hosted a live interview with Anita Beaty, the Executive Director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing and the Chicago Independent Human Rights Council, and Tiffany Gardner, the Human Right to Housing Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. They discussed the human right to housing, the national housing crisis, the recent UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing's First Official Mission to the United States, and the homelessness...
2009-12-0848 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 10: NESRI Interviews Christine Kaufmann on the Human Right to Health CareIn August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, interviewed Christine Kaufmann, Montana State Senator and long-time Director of the Montana Human Rights Network, about her experience of developing Montana’s increasingly influential human right to health care campaign. In the interview Senator Kaufmann also argues that local and state-based activists need not wait for federal action on health care reform, reflects on her dual role as politician and advocate, and explains why politicians can be much more progressive if pushed by concerted pressure from the grassroots.
2009-09-181h 04
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 9: NESRI Interviews Alan Peura on the Human Right to Health CareThis August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, visited our partner organization, the Montana Human Rights Network, which is based in Helena, Montana. Together, the Network and NESRI held a series of focus group discussions on community health needs in Lewis and Clark County. Last December, the county adopted a resolution declaring health care a human right and setting up a task force to identify ways for making access to health care universal. While in Montana Anja interviewed Alan Peura, the Helena City Commissioner who was instrumental in drafting the county’s right to health care resolution.
2009-08-2807 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 8: NESRI Interviews Sameer Dossani about Amnesty International's Health Care is a Human Right WorkIn an E-Alert released Friday, June 19, AI USA stated that current draft health care reform legislation falls far short of fulfilling a human rights vision. AI USA suggests that one reason for this is that single-payer advocates, a crucial human rights constituency, have been largely excluded from the reform process.
Here NESRI’s Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger interviews Sameer Dossani, Campaign Director for Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity Campaign. She asks him about why Amnesty turned out in force to the Single Payer Right Now! Rally for the Right to Health Care on Friday, June 26th, in W...
2009-07-0201 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 7: Vermont Workers' Center's "Human Right to Healthcare" Rally - May 1, 2009On Friday, May 1, an estimated over 1000 people from across Vermont, including nurses and other healthcare workers, descended on the State Capital building in Montpelier for a "Healthcare is a Human Right" rally. The historic rally, organized by NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center, was aimed at changing not only what is "politically possible" with respect to healthcare reform, but at making the establishment of the human right to healthcare as a basic right "politically inescapable."
Anja Rudiger, of the Human Right to Health Program at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), was there to document the historic event...
2009-05-1910 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 6: Bernie Sanders Addresses Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Health Care Rally - May 1, 2009On Friday, May 1, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) addressed NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Healthcare Rally at the State Capital in Montpelier, VT. Estimates are that over 1000 Vermonters turned out for the rally.
2009-05-0412 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 4: Lucas Benitez of CIW at the United Nations - February 10, 2009Lucas Benitez of NESRI partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) presented at the United Nations’ launch of World Social Justice Day.
2009-04-0213 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 5: Cathy Albisa at Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting - March 28, 2009NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa presented on a panel entitled “Health Care is a Human Right: Realizing the Right to Health in the United States,” at Seizing the Moment, Building the Movement, the 2009 Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting.
2009-04-0209 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 3: Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin at USHRF Convening Plenary - January 12, 2009Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin address the Opening Plenary of the US Human Rights Fund Convening. The plenary was entitled "Strategy for Social Change: Success Stories, Challenges & Cautionary Tales."
Photo taken by Jim Belfon.
2009-04-0215 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 2: Human Right To Housing Program Speaks at Poverty Initiative Immersion Course - January 7, 2009NESRI Human Right to Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner and John Derek Norvell of Concerned Citizens of Greater Harlem presented on a panel entitled "Poverty Scholars and Religious Leaders Roundtable" at the January 2009 Immersion Course of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary.
2009-04-0221 min
NESRI's PodcastEpisode 1: “Economic and Social Rights Under a New Administration”A special evening with Dr. Paul Farmer, founding NESRI Board Member, Co-Founder of Partners In Health, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner, human rights activist, and subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. You will hear from Dr. Farmer and our staff about how we are working with our partners and networks to shape their agendas and hopes in the face of a new administration.
2008-11-061h 14