Community Meeting: RoxComp & Campaigns

Thursday, September 25, 2014 @ 7:00 PM
Higher Ground, 384 Warren Street, Third Floor
at Martin Luther King Boulevard, Roxbury
MBTA Bus Routes #23 & 28
Wheelchair Accessible ~ Light Refreshments

RoxComp Revelations

August 21, 2014

Mayor Martin J. Walsh
One City Hall Square
Suite 500
Boston MA 02201-2013

Dear Mayor Walsh:

We, the undersigned advocates, scientists, environmental justice organizations, civil rights lawyers, religious associations, community activists, union members, organized nurses and city residents, are firmly opposed to the operation of a BSL 4 laboratory in the City of Boston. The risks involved in the manipulation of highly deadly pathogens are unacceptable. The risks far outweigh any possible benefits.

Community Meeting: RoxComp, Biolab, Campaigns

Thursday, August 21, 2014 @ 7:00 PM
Jobs with Justice Jamaica Plain Office
3353 Washington Street corner Green
Near Green Street T Station, Bus Route 42

Stop the Biolab Coalition Meets with Mayor Walsh

This is a good time to review the principles upon which our nurses' movement was founded. Forged in the fights to get away from the American Nurses Association (ANA) and then to build a progressive national voice for nurses, these statements of principle can be reread here, appended to the presentation Quest for a Voice from the 2008 pre-convention program of the Massachusetts Nurses Association. Primary importance has always been given to winning enforceable RN staffing limits and then to creating a just healthcare system. To these ends, we built first the American Association of Registered Nurses (AARN) and then the National Nurses United (NNU).

Stop the Biolab Coalition Invites You to Celebrate        

Material presented to Massachusetts Nurses Association annual convention, October 1, 2008.
Addenda: Documents pertaining to founding of National Nurses United, 2009.

In the Beginning was the ANA

• Origins of Collective Bargaining for Nurses
• Tensions Mount
• Dispersal (SNAs shed collective bargaining)

• Connecticut - 1984
• New Jersey - 1985
• Maryland - 1990
• Pennsylvania - 1991
• Kentucky - 2008

Industrial Changes

Sandy Eaton defines dysfunctional, as in Massachusetts health care, on June 30, 2014. ... WCCATV

A thorough look at how the Affordable Care Act will change health care beyond just the consumer interaction. A useful resource for health care consumers, health care workers and reform activists. Greg Chern, Against The Current, May/June 2014 ... Lean

Ellen Kagan and Sandy Eaton, RN discuss the Patient Safety Act, to protect you when you are a patient in a Massachusetts hospital. The only state to have a safe staffing law like this is California and it is working wonderfully for the people who live there. It is necessary to your good health! ... Your

A discussion of the Hospital Profit Transparency & Fairness Act between host Ellen Kagan and Sandy Eaton, RN. Also, Ellen discusses her billing issues at a noted Harvard teaching hospital. ... Your

Highlights in a century of popular efforts to achieve a national system of health care in the United States. Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Theodore M. Brown, Elizabeth Fee & Walter J. Lear, American Journal of Public Health, January 2003. Some key moments stand out in a century of popular efforts to achieve a national system of health care in the United States. These efforts began with the Socialist Party’s endorsement of accident, unemployment, sickness and old age insurance at its founding convention in 1901, an endorsement that was included in the Socialist Party presidential platform in 1904, 1908 and 1912. ... Struggles

Community Meeting on Community Health Centers

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 @ 7:00 PM

Jobs with Justice Jamaica Plain Office

3353 Washington Street corner Green

Near Green Street T Station, on Bus Route 42

One Biolab Battle Lost, War Goes On

Community Meeting

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 ~ 6:30 PM
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice Boston Office
3353 Washington Street corner Green, Jamaica Plain
Near the Green Street T Station, on Bus Route 42

Hold the Date! LCSP National Strategy Conference August 22-24

How did America end up with this health care system? Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 27, 2014 Pennsylvania in the late 1800s and early 1900s was an unsafe place to work, with a quarter-million recorded industrial calamities a year. So dangerous were the trades, and so gruesome were the accidents, that the chronicling of injuries suffered by workers became its own muckraking genre. A short-lived publication of the Inter­national Association of Factory Inspectors got some its best stories from the steel industry ... How