by Cindy Sheehan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
March 16, 2014
Special guest: Richard Becker
(A.N.S.W.E.R San Francisco and writer for Liberation News) Continue reading
Day: March 16, 2014
Gender and Caste Discrimination–Apartheid in ‘New’ India by Graham Peebles
by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
March 14, 2014
A suffocating patriarchal shadow hangs over the lives of women throughout India. From all sections, castes and classes of society, women are victim of its repressive, controlling effects. Those subjected to the heaviest burden of discrimination are from the Dalit or Scheduled Castes, known in less liberal democratic times as the ’untouchables’. The name may have been banned but pervasive negative attitudes of mind remain, as do the extreme levels of abuse and servitude experienced by Dalit women. They experience multiple levels of discrimination and exploitation, much of which is barbaric, degrading, appallingly violent, and totally inhumane.
Medicare Madness – How Americans Can Lose Benefits in a Hospital by Joel S. Hirschhorn
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.foavc.org
March 13, 2014
Image by Muffet via Flickr
Tuck away the many horror stories of the wrong limbs being amputated, things being left in surgery patients, terrible infections picked up in hospitals and totally wrong diagnoses. More relevant is a bureaucratic hospitalization horror that far too few Americans covered by Medicare are aware of.
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