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SPI member Greg Gabrellas is running for office in his healthcare workers union on a platform that includes Medicare for All! Please help keep the political revolution going by bringing the labor movement along for the ride 🤩 Contributing $27 will be a big help! Solidarity 🌹

CIR Housestaff for a Democratic Union organized by Greg Gabrellas Across the SEIU Committee of Interns & Residents (CIR), members are supporting ne… Greg Gabrellas needs your support for CIR Housestaff for a Democratic Union

The CIR national convention this weekend is online! On Saturday there will be a special organizing session for University of California led by UCLA residents Anna Yap and Greg Gabrellas. Free and open to all: https://bit.ly/CIRConvention2020

The UCLA residents union is fighting for a fair contract that protects our health insurance from cuts. Please support the UCLA residents TODAY by participating in the “100 calls” action.

Below are the phone numbers to call, a script, and background info. Please call both numbers Monday between 9:00 am- 5:00 pm PST.

310-267-9315 Johnese Spisso, President of UCLA and CEO of UCLA Hospital System

310-825-2699- John Mazziotta, Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health

FOR COMMUNITY CALLERS

Hello, may I speak to (________), my name (First Name). I am calling to support the UCLA residents in bargaining to retain all of their healthcare benefits, proper access for their union and their basic union rights. What is UCLA's plan to ensure that Resident's benefits aren't cut and that they have proper access for their Union?

FOR RESIDENTS

Hello, may I speak to (________), my name (First Name). I am a (PGY__), from (____ Department). I am calling to let you know that I stand with my 1400 Co-Residents to demand that UCLA prioritize our health and the health of our families by not cutting our health insurance benefits. We also stand firmly that OUR Union should have access at our hospital. What is your plan to ensure these ask are met?

Background

1,400 UCLA Resident Physicians are continuing to fight to ensure their first contract has adequate access to health care and basic union rights.

Healthcare: UCLA wants to change the structure of their healthcare plan to make residents pay for their health care co-pays.

Union Access: It is standard to allow union representatives access to members during breaks and lunches. UCLA has refused to bargain over any union access language.

Orientations: AB119 mandates employers give unions access to general new employee orientations, departmental orientations, and provide them with the information of all new employees. UCLA refuses to abide by the law and will not bargain a process to allow access in the contract.

Health care workers unite! The University of California has a new labor force to contend with, its physicians in training, as the class struggle in the Golden State intensifies

UCLA Residents File for Union Recognition, Seek to Join CIR/SEIU – Committee of Interns and Residents A clear majority of interns, residents and fellows at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have completed a months-long organizing campaign to form their union and join 15,000 of their fellow residents nationwide who are represented by The Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU (CIR)....

For awhile now the idea of a publication has been floated around, and we're proud to announce today the launch of Damage Magazine, which looks at the subjective impediments to thinking and psychological damage wrought by capitalist society. Today is the "soft" launch of the magazine, which essentially means that it's just out there now. Over the summer we'll be adding an article or so a week to the site, honing our social media, fixing bugs, etc., and then in the fall we plan to do "hard" launch events in NYC and LA. In the meantime, please share widely with friends, colleagues, family, and otherwise. And of course, if you haven't already, please consider contributing!

About In view of the actual and potential damage that at present can be wreaked upon humankind by its administrators, the need to protect sexuality has something crazy about it. Theodor Adorno, Sexual Ta…

"We have a much better chance of making it past the 22nd century if environmental regulations are designed by a team of people with no formal education in a democratic socialist society than we do if they are made by a team of the most esteemed scientific luminaries in a capitalist society.

Opinion | The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid The work of saving the planet is not technical, it’s political.

Russell Jacoby:

"Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it."

Bertolt Brecht, socialist playwright and poet, died on this day in 1956.

Politics and porcupine love:

Kansas’ other Republican senator, Pat Roberts, offered an assessment of the Senate bill strikingly different from Mr. Moran’s: Kansas, he said, “fared well under this draft.” Before the recess, according to The Associated Press, he offered an evocative description of how Republican senators were trying to come to agreement.

“Once in Glacier National Park, I saw two porcupines making love,” Mr. Roberts said. “I’m assuming they produced smaller porcupines. They produced something. It has to be done carefully. That’s what we’re doing now.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/unlikely-holdout-underscores-challenge-for-senate-health-bill.html

Unlikely Holdout Underscores Challenge for Senate Health Bill At a constituent meeting in Kansas, a state President Trump won by 20 points, Senator Jerry Moran faced probing questions about the bill — and had some of his own.

"Yet this was the only panel that transfixed the entire crowd, and it was clearly what they came for: the chance to see and hear Paltrow and her peers gush over each other’s fabulousness, marvel at how each of them does it all (with no nods to nannies, personal assistants, household staff, managers and agents) and reinforce the notion that every woman out there, if only they wish hard enough and buy enough GP-approved product, can be a member of her clique too, an inhabitant of her world — and there’s no denying that Gwyneth Paltrow is on her own planet."

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

Exasperated attendees give up on Gwyneth’s Goop summit LOS ANGELES — Gwyneth Paltrow’s inaugural health-and-wellness summit on Saturday kicked off just as you’d expect: well-groomed women wearing yoga pants and expensive handbags hooking themselves up …

https://patch.com/new-york/bushwick/s/g33e6/federal-judge-sees-new-york-state-conspiracy-to-thwart-care-for-mentally-ill

Federal Judge Sees New York State Conspiracy To Thwart Care For Mentally Ill Judge who oversaw landmark case involving troubled homes for mentally ill sends word to NY that efforts to undermine care must end.