People's World Amistad Awards "CT Rising - We are all the 47%!"

CT Rising We are all the 47%!
Amistad Awards and Youth Performances
Sunday, December 2 at 4 pm
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, 177 College St, New Haven

Music by MIKATA Salsa and Latin Jazz, Bill Collins, youth performance
 

People's World Amistad Award recipients
Sen. Toni Harp champion for the needs of working and poor people, for the Freedom Trail, and in principled support of funds for restoration of the Peoples Center
Kurt Westby CT Director of SEIU 32 BJ, organizing and building leadership among low-wage workers to strengthen labor's voice in politics and at the bargaining table
Fatima Rojas, Unite Here Local 217 organizer, on behalf of immigrants and all workers inspiring grass roots participation for equal rights and social justice

Greeting book and ticket information: 203-624-8664 or e-mail ct-pww@pobox.com

Hosted by Connecticut People's World on the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the Communist Party USA

HIROSHIMA REMEMBRANCE - MON. AUG. 6

Please forward this info to your groups -- thanks

Hiroshima Remembrance and Call for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Monday, August 6th

Quaker Meeting House --144 South Quaker Lane--West Hartford, CT 06119

Pot Luck Picnic begins at 5:30 pm  ---  Program begins at 6:45 pm with

Music, Speakers and ends with Candle-Lighting Ceremony at 8 pm.

For more information call  (860) 561-1897
Posted by Tom Connolly

GOV. MALLOY JOINS 1199 HEALTHBRIDGE PICKET LINE

JOIN THE PICKET LINE - SEE LOCATIONS BELOW THE ARTICLE.

Gov. Dannel Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman joined the 1199 Union picked line at the Newington Health Care Center in Newington Ct.  managed by HealthBridge.  HealthBridge is a huge national organization based in New Jersey. 

Around the state, nearly 700 workers are on strike, in Newington, Milford, Danbury, Stamford and Westport.

Workers at five HealthBridge-owned nursing homes went on strike last week after the health care company declined to return to the bargaining table. Malloy said it's clear the company has taken "unfair actions" against employees, citing last week's federal complaint against the company issued by the National Labor Relations Board.

In a statement issued this morning, Malloy chided HealthBridge for its actions. "This comes at a time when many other nursing homes in Connecticut have agreed to reasonable contracts over the last year," the statement read. "HealthBridge is the exception and not in a good way. These types of tactics are unacceptable. They negatively impact the lives of the residents who live in these nursing homes and the residents' families because the continuum of care gets interrupted."

JOIN THE PICKET LINE - BELOW ARE THE FIVE LOCATIONS:

Newington Health Care Center

240 Church Street
Newington, CT 06111

West River Health Care Center

245 Orange Avenue
Milford, CT 06460

Long Ridge of Stamford

710 Long Ridge Road
Stamford, CT 06902

Danbury Health Care Center
107 Osborne Street
Danbury, CT 06810

Westport Health Care Center

1 Burr Road
Westport, CT 06880

Posted by Tom Connolly

IT IS TIME FOR A PUBLIC OPTION FOR HEALTH CARE IN CONNECTICUT

Photo: Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, chairperson of the SustinNet Cabinet committee opens the meeting to consider a public option for health care in Connecticut.

On Tuesday, June 12 members of the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care and their allies jamed the SustinNet Cabinet meeting at the Connecticut llegislative office building in Hartford, CT to demand a public option for health care.

It a prepared statement they note: "...create a state-sponsored public option for health care that pools all recipients of state health care dollars, competes of the health care exchange with private insurers, and offers affordable health insurance to small business and individuals who are left our of the current system. 

Why a public option?  We note that anytime people are left out of the health care system, service costs increase for everyone, and quality decreases for everyone.  A system that privileges some actually deprives all of us of the best care at the best price.  A public option is a well-researched solution to the problem of differential assess and skyrocketing cost..."

With hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents with no or inadequate health insurance now is the time for a public option.

Photo Above:  Part of the crowd and the June 12 meeting supporting a public option for health care in Connecticut. 

Posted by Tom Connolly



JUNE 12 - HEALTH CARE 4 ALL

BE THERE:  Tuesday, June 12 -- 8:30 – 11:00 a.m SustiNet Healthcare Cabinet Legislative Office Building, Room IB -- 300 Capitol Ave, Hartford


On Tuesday June 12, Connecticut can take a big step toward new non-profit health coverage. You can help. Decisions by for-profit insurance companies cause many of the problems in our broken health system.

When for-profit insurers give their CEOs outrageous pay instead of holding down insurance costs, when they reap record profits instead of approving the treatments doctors order, we all pay the price. We'll never have quality affordable health care for everyone, as long as for-profit insurers are in charge. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Across the country, non-profit insurance plans are pioneering ways to hold down costs and deliver better care. The difference: health is their bottom line. On Tuesday, the SustiNet Healthcare Cabinet’s working group on non-profit and public alternatives to private, for-profit insurance will present its report.

 The 2011 law we won requires the Cabinet to make recommendations on these alternatives to Governor Malloy by October 1. We need a big turnout Tuesday! The Cabinet needs to hear, loud and clear, that Connecticut supports non-profit alternatives to the private insurers that control health care today. Join healthcare4every1 & the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care to demand action! Wear your red t-shirt!

Tuesday, June 12 -- 8:30 – 11:00 a.m SustiNet Healthcare Cabinet Legislative Office Building, Room IB -- 300 Capitol Ave, Hartford

Source:  HealthCare4All
Posted by Tom Connolly