Reform

Protests Continue In France Against Pension Reform

January 17, 2020 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! France, Pensions, Reform, Yellow Vests

Representatives of the unions of teachers, doctors, lawyers and railway workers marched again Thursday in the streets of Paris, capital of France, against the social policies and economic President Emmanuel Macron, particularly its reform of pensions . Among the main demands of the French is the revision of the pension reform proposed by Macron, before it is approved by the Council of Ministers, reiterating that it violates their fundamental rights. After 43 days of general strike, the Executive has yielded in provisionally withdrawing the retirement age, however, asks for an agreement with social organizations, while the Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Philippe Martínez, said that the government did not convince them with the recent announcement.

The 2020s Has To Be The Decade We Stop Climate Change—Not Start Another War

January 13, 2020 By Sarah Lazare, Inthesetimes.com Strategize! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Reform, Wars and Militarism

The harms perpetrated by U.S. militarism must be measured not only by its direct violence, but by its foreclosure on other possible futures. This is the decade we have to stop climate change. But now, thanks to the belligerent Trump administration and Democrats who laid the groundwork, we also have to stop another potential war. To stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, the world must slash carbon emissions in half by 2030 and—at the absolute latest—bring them to net zero by 2050.

What Medicare For All Really Looks Like

January 13, 2020 By Caitlin Kelly, Prospect.org Create! Health Care, Medicare for all, Reform

He spends long days navigating Toronto’s miserable traffic, finding whatever’s needed for his work as a freelance production designer for film and commercials. It’s demanding physical labor, with injury a daily possibility. Like so many these days, David Dennis, 28, is an independent worker. But he pays nothing for his health insurance. Simply being a tax-paying Canadian is enough. As an Ontario resident, Dennis’ OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) card entitles him to see a physician, visit an urgent-care clinic or any hospital, and receive whatever services...

Two-Thirds Of People In The US Want To Tax The Rich

January 13, 2020 By Howard Schneider and Chris Kahn, Reuters.com Educate! Reform, Ruling Class, Taxes

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The idea of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans has elicited sharply divergent views across a spectrum of politicians, with President Donald Trump branding it socialist and progressive Democratic presidential contenders Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders prominently endorsing it. But it may have broad public support, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that found nearly two-thirds of respondents agree that the very rich should pay more.

Why I Am Optimistic Going Into 2020

January 6, 2020 Ronnie Cummins, Organicconsumers.org Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Reform

“They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn.” – Bob Dylan, “Blood on the Tracks,” 1975. Beyond the media smog, the 24/7 fixation on the Trump cesspool and the endless distractions of the holiday season, I probably don’t have to remind you that the end of the modern era is at hand. As most of us realize, even as we repress this thought in order to maintain our sanity, we are fast approaching “the point of no return,” whereby our 21st Century Climate Emergency and societal meltdown begin to morph into global catastrophe.

Eight Days Of Protest Force Reversal Of Cyanide Law In Argentina

January 6, 2020 Mercedes Araujo, Latfem.org. Translated Liz Mason-Deese. Resist! Argentina, Mining, Protests, Reform

For over a week, residents of the Argentine province of Mendoza mobilized, in marches, candlelight vigils, and enormous protests against the provincial government’s decision to overturn Law 7722, which prohibited the use of hazardous chemicals in mining activities. The law, originally passed in 2007, was the result of years of organizing by neighborhood assemblies, community organizations, and groups of agricultural producers in defense of water as a key element of life, and attempting to establish an alternative to the extractivist economic model.

Michiganians Demand Earned Credits For Prisoners At Criminal Justice Reform Town Hall

January 4, 2020 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org Resist! Criminal Justice, Michigan, Reform

Like many states across the country, Michigan has reached a critical point in the status of its Corrections Department and citizens are fed up. The Department’s failures expand across the spectrum of corrections from financially and operatively to their regularly inadequate programming and continually degrading prison conditions. These mounting issues incite the need for deep reforms along with increasingly long average sentence lengths, from 2-4yrs, contributing to massive overcrowding.

The Collapse Of Civilization May Have Already Begun

December 27, 2019 Nafeez Ahmed, Vice.com Educate! Climate Change, Reform

These are not the words of a tinfoil hat-donning survivalist. This is from a paper delivered by a senior sustainability academic at a leading business school to the European Commission in Brussels, earlier this year. Before that, he delivered a similar message to a UN conference: “Climate change is now a planetary emergency posing an existential threat to humanity.” In the age of climate chaos, the collapse of civilization has moved from being a fringe, taboo issue to a more mainstream concern. As the world reels under each new outbreak of crisis...

Postcard From Paris

December 26, 2019 By James Graham, Counterpunch.org Resist! France, Pensions, Reform, Workers Rights and Jobs

“For over two years we’ve been hearing about this pension reform! Two years of ‘consultations,’ which, cross our hearts, were to be full to the brim with transparency, intelligibility and instruction. Two years enshrouded in a haze – not to say a dense fog – of a strategy which, playing for time with contradictions, altered estimates and impossible-to- reconcile positions, end up with a strike that looks set to last. Two years supposed to reassure us but which, au contraire, have only caused anguish and sent diverse age groups and trades not among the first concerned with the reform down to the street.”

Pass The Protecting The Right To Organize Act

December 26, 2019 Martin Halpern, Historynewsnetwork.org Create! Electoral Politics, Reform

Discontent with Donald Trump in 2018 led voters to give Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. Although media attention has focused on the impeachment inquiry, the House has passed several pieces of progressive legislation this year. One bill, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, was supported by 33 Republicans. None of the measures has been taken up by the Republican-controlled Senate. Although the bills may not become law this year...

Supreme Court Confirms There Is No Fifth Vote To Protect Abortion Rights

December 20, 2019 By Jessica Mason Pieklo, Rewire.news Educate! Abortion, health, Reform, Supreme Court

It only takes four votes for the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to take a case. That’s it. Not even a majority of the justices have to sign on for the Court to hear a case. Just four. That threshold took on a new significance Monday when the Court announced it was denying a request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to reconsider an appellate court decision that let Kentucky’s forced ultrasound law, HB2, take effect. The decision was announced without an explanation, just a one-line denial in the list of orders the Court released that day. But the justices didn’t need to offer any explanation for why they turned the case away.

Rising Health Care Costs In California: A Worker Issue

December 18, 2019 Staff, Laborcenter.berkeley.edu Educate! California, Health Care, Reform, Workers Rights and Jobs

The Labor Center is publishing a series of blog posts detailing current problems and concerns of Californians with job-based coverage, including the inequities faced by low-income workers, immigrant workers, and workers of color. We will also highlight that much of the burden of health care costs falls on the shoulders of working families, making health care cost growth a workers’ issue. Key points we will make in this blog post series include: Most mid- and high-wage California workers have job-based coverage.

Industry Seeks To Flatline Universal Health Care

December 18, 2019 By Mark Kreidler, Inequality.org Educate! Electoral Politics, Health Care, Reform

When U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren rolled out details of her Medicare for All plan at the beginning of November, she didn’t merely answer her fellow Democratic presidential contenders, who were clamoring to know how she proposed to pay for it. Warren also handed a few pages from her playbook to her plan’s real opposition, the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, a consortium of sometimes disparate health-industry heavyweights, from insurance companies to private hospitals to Big Pharma.

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