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Comment by Joe Balkis on July 30, 2012 at 18:20

 

Salud 2006 93 min

Salud looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, Salud hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.

Against the alarming backdrop of the global health crisis and deteriorating public health systems in even the richest nations, Salud tells the little-known story of Cuba: a poor country overcoming its lack of resources to provide universal health care and help other developing nations do the same. Today, Cubans are among the world’s healthiest people, despite the island’s poverty. Cuban medical schools will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new doctors from developing countries over the next decade.

The film’s cameras reach into The Gambia, rural South Africa, the barrios of Venezuela, coastal villages of Honduras and river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor community has ever seen. In some nations they staff entire health systems. In all, they take with them the experience and philosophy of their own community-oriented, preventive and universal health care model fundamentally at odds with a global wave of healthcare privatization.

For more info: Stan Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, 773-376-7521

uscubachi@yahoo.com

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 13, 2012 at 4:40

Rally and march demanding TIAA-CREF stop investing in the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Join Chicago Divests, AFSC, JVP, CMPR, CJPIP, Ali Abunimah, Cantor Michael Davis, and community members this Tuesday, July 17 during the TIAA-CREF shareholders' meeting to demand that TIAA-CREF live up to its motto "For the Greater Good" and divest from all its holdings in companies profiting from human rights abuses in Palestine. Protests are taking place in NY inside and outside of the shareholders meeting, as well as here in Chicago.
The rally will begin at noon with speeches by Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical council member Cantor Michael Davis, and shareholders at the Thompson Center. Following the rally, we will march down LaSalle to the TIAA-CREF office with songs, music and chants calling on TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
When? Tuesday, July 17, Rally at 12:00-1:30pm
Where? Rally at 12pm at the Thompson Center (100 W. Randolph Street--in front of the white statue); protest at 12:45pm at TIAA-CREF office in Chicago (200 N. LaSalle St.)
Why? TIAA-CREF has made a historic decision to divest $72.9 million of Caterpillar stock from their Social Choice fund. But this is only the beginning! TIAA-CREF still invests over $900 million in Caterpillar in other portfolios. In addition, its Social Choice fund contains investments in Motorola Solutions, which developed the surveillance and communications systems for use in illegal Israeli settlements and the apartheid wall, and Hewlett-Packard, which owns the biometric monitoring system used in Israeli military checkpoints, provides data storage solutions for illegal Israeli settlements, and coordinates information technology for the Israeli Navy. TIAA-CREF also continues to hold onto its investments in Elbit, Veolia, and Northrup Grumman all of which are complicit in the illegal Israel occupation of Palestine.
Endorsed by: Chicago Divests, American Friends Service Committee-Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago, Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
Sign the Chicago Divests petition here.

For more information about the divestment campaign, visit: WeDivest.org--

Daniel Kaplan

Chicago Divests Campaign Coordinator

Chicago Divests demands that TIAA-CREF divest from all corporations profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Chicago Divests specifically targets six corporations–Veolia, Motorola Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, Elbit, Caterpillar, and Northrop Grumman–for providing weapons, surveillance systems, and segregated services to enforce the occupation. Chicago Divests is a grassroots organization, organized in conjunction with the American Friends Service Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace.
Sign the petition here.

For more information about the divestment campaign, visit: WeDivest.org

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 13, 2012 at 4:38

PSL Meeting
Defend Women's Rights on Aug. 26, Revolutionary Optimism and the Working Class, VotePSL.org Campaign Update

Saturday, July 14, 6 pm
4802 N. Broadway #202
Info: 773-920-7590
Directions

Join us for presentations, discussion and organizing

Topics

** Why PSL candidate for congress Ymelda Viramontes is marching on August 26 to defend women's rights

Come find out how you can get involved in building the August 26 da.... We'll have thousands of leaflets for pick up and distribution. On July 14, you can also help out with the "Why I'm Marching" social media project to build August 26. You can see some of the pictures for the campaign here.

** Marxist Educational: Revolutionary optimism and the role of the working class

Can the U.S. working class can make a revolution? Join the discussion

** An update from the PSL election campaign

The PSL presidential campaign is on the ballot in four states and petitioning has begun in many other states, including Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In Chicago, Ymelda Viramontes is running for congress. Come find out how the VotePSL.org campaign is going and how you can get involved.

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PSL Chicago
773-920-7590
http://www.pslweb.org

 

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 11, 2012 at 18:18

Comment by Ira Wechsler on July 10, 2012 at 17:28

  Joe it is the same deal in New York.  Shantel Davis,a 23 year old unarmed woman, was assassinated in her car by Narcotics detective Philip Atkins. The Progressive Labor Party has helped mobilizemay in Flatbush, Brooklyn community to march several times on the 67 th precinct and demand an end to racist murder. Atkins has a history of multiple civil rights violations and the City of New York has mad large out of court settlements to cover over his misdeeds.  Our slogan has been Billionaire Bloomberg , you can't hide we charge you with genocide!

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 10, 2012 at 6:22

***FORWARD WIDELY***

 

 

Illinois Campaign to End the New Jim Crow meeting. Tuesday, July 10th 7pm

 

The cases of Rekia Boyd, Stephon Watts and Howard Morgan have put cases of police violence and brutality

back in the forefront in Chicago. So far, institutions of power in Chicago and Cook County have done little to

nothing to provide justice for the victims of police brutality. We all know the Chicago summer will bring more

incidence of police violence and brutality. Since the CPD, City of Chicago or Cook County will not hold

officers accountable, it is the job of the community to hold them accountable.

 

Let's discuss how we can gain justice for the victims of police violence and challenge police brutality in Chicago.

 

ALL ARE WELCOMED!

 

Meeting Time: 7pm

Tuesday July 10th

Trinity Episcopal Church at 26th and Michigan

Free Parking Provided 

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 9, 2012 at 0:30

the Carlos Montes Victory Gathering next Sunday, July 15th at 4Pm at 2838 W Cermak 

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 9, 2012 at 0:28

Anti-NATO protesters held on terrorism charges, extreme bail Call States Attorney Anita Alvarez: 773-674-6209 Demand all charges be dropped against anti-NATO protesters! “Release them all now!” Eight people continue to be held in jail in Chicago, arrested before or during the protests against the NATO summit, according to information provided by the National Lawyers Guild. They face felony charges and even terrorism charges, while the NATO generals responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands have left town to return to their occupation of Afghanistan and plotting for their next war. Of those still being held, five of them have been charged under a State of Illinois law passed after 9/11 that has never been used. The NATO 5 were all targeted by undercover police officers exposed by the National Lawyers Guild. The agents went by the nicknames “Mo” and “Gloves”. The NATO 5 were arrested without any evidence of their involvement in violence, other than the statements of undercover provocateurs. The first arrests took place in an unlawful police raid of a home on Wednesday night, May 16th, in which the police kicked in doors without presenting a warrant, beat up people, shackled protesters hand and foot, and then “disappeared” 11 people for up to 40 hours. The National Lawyers Guild and Occupy Chicago activists faced repeated denials by the CPD in their attempts to locate those arrested. The remaining two were arrested several days later. Again, no evidence has been presented other than the statements of the undercover police. Both men were held longer than the 48 hours required by law before being given access to use of a telephone or to speak with an attorney. The other four still being held were involved in a protest action at the point which the police turned violent, causing over 70 injuries from baton blows, including many serious head injuries. Over 24 had to be treated at area hospitals for broken bones, knocked out teeth, concussions, and wounds requiring stitches or staples. On top of the arrests and charges, the protesters are being held with outrageous bails: $1.5 million for the first three facing terrorism charges; $750,000 and $500,000 for the second two charged under the same state terrorism law; and as high as $250,000 for the remaining men. Bail for one Chicago youth, Raziel Azuara is set at $150,000.  It is the Chicago Police Department that is responsible for the violence; and the CPD and the States Attorney are violating the law and the Constitution. Charges of terrorism, pre-emptive raids and prosecution, charges based on entrapment, and violence against protesters are all standard procedure when the US government declares a National Special Security Event as they did with the NATO summit. These tactics were employed at the Republican National Convention in 2008, resulting in the cases of the RNC 8; the 23 anti-war activists raided by the FBI and subpoenaed to a grand jury for investigation of support for foreign terrorists; and the current trial of Carlos Montes in Los Angeles.  Now in Chicago they’ve added the element of excessive bail, as if the protesters were part of the 1%, rather than the 99%. We must speak out against this repression. We know the charges against the anti-NATO protesters are false. All these prisoners should be free.

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 7, 2012 at 17:20

Thank You for posting Brian & Ian!

Comment by Joe Balkis on July 7, 2012 at 17:17

Rally for an Elected School Board

Join us in Little Village for a rally + canvasing to show support for an Elected Representative School Board

Where? : Amor de Dios Church 2356 S. Sawyer St.

When? : Sat. July 7th 10:00 – 1:00

Who: YOU!

The CPS Board—appointed by the mayor— is not accountable to the people it serves.

The Board is failing our children.

Help Win an Elected Representative School Board

• CPS’s privatization policies—school closings, turnarounds and charters—do NOT improve education. They have been devastating to all children, especially those in African American and Latino communities.

• Class size has increased. Art, music, recess, PE & after school activities have been cut, while high-stakes testing eats up more classroom and learning time.

• CPS has expanded an unequal system: A top tier of selective schools for a few students and a bottom tier of resource-starved neighborhood schools for everyone else.

• CPS makes decisions, like an unfunded longer school day, without public input.

• CPS blames teachers, parents, and students for the problems THEY have created.

• Teacher morale is at an all-time low.

An Elected Board is a Necessary FIRST STEP to Improve Our Schools.

• An elected board would be accountable to the public and could be more diverse, reflecting the people it serves.

• Chicago is the only city in Illinois with an appointed school board.

• Election requirements could mandate specific qualifications and cap campaign expenditures, thus reducing the influence of money and politics on education.

Help Win an Elected Representative School Board for Chicago.

• The Illinois Legislature must pass a law to enact an elected school board.

• Sign a petition to get an advisory referendum for an elected board on the November ballot.

• Volunteer to help Chicago win an elected school board. See our calendar of events for opportunities to collect signatures i...

• Contact your elected officials. Ask them to support a Representative Elected School Board.

• Help Win an Elected Representative School Board

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