by Communications Team | Dec 28, 2009 | Education, Western New York
This is the third post in our series, Faces of Change. Click here for the first post. Click here for the second post. This is Osman Muse. Osman moved to the US from Somalia with his parents when he was in the 6th grade. He remembers that when he got here, he felt like...
by Communications Team | Dec 11, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
Okay, this is it. It’s time for us progressive, liberal, or just plain sane people to get mad. I just got back from a meeting with Senator Gillibrand’s staff and they told me a sick, sad story. One of the staffers was returning to the office the other day when she was...
by Communications Team | Dec 3, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
We are getting closer to winning real health care reform than we have ever been before. It’s not perfect, true – but we are going to win something. It’s a major battle that we are about to win, with a bit more work! But, it’s really important that we keep in...
by Communications Team | Oct 10, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
On Friday, activists gathered in downtown Buffalo to call out the private health insurance industry and their practices of denying coverage in order to increase profits. This action was one of three events across New York this week that focused on the...
by Communications Team | Oct 2, 2009 | Education, Western New York
Do a search for school violence on Google News and the number of results, which span the continental United States, is disheartening. The history of school violence begins for most Americans with Columbine and is bracketed by the deaths at Virginia Tech. In recent...
by Communications Team | Sep 25, 2009 | Capital District, Health Care, New York City, Southern Tier, Uncategorized, Western New York
On Tuesday, activists in dozens of state across the US protested the unfair, profiteering, and crisis-causing practices of big private insurance companies in America. In New York, Citizen Action focused on two of our state’s worst: United Healthcare and GHI/HIP....
by Communications Team | Sep 22, 2009 | Western New York
So I got the call last week asking me if I could be in Albany on Monday (9/21/2009) for a very special event. I had some hints before that so I knew what was going on – the President was going to be in town. I worked many, many, many hours as a volunteer on...
by Communications Team | Aug 28, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
My 10 year old daughter Sage has been very patient. It is tough for a girl to see her mother obsessed with a cause. The amount of attention paid to her is sometimes usurped by the urgency of the fight for health care. So, when she decided on her own to write a blog...
by Communications Team | Aug 27, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
Tonight’s health care teach-in in Buffalo will be live streamed right here tonight. Here is the event info. There will be speakers from the community, as well as two slide show presentations: the first about the current health care legislation moving through...
