Health
Extra Edition: A Repeat. – Healing Farm Worker Trauma. Also, Preparing for the Next Public Health Crisis.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24 PROGRAM # 9297 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: A Repeat. – Healing Farm Worker Trauma. The nearly 3 million mostly Latino farmworkers in this country have experienced decades of traumatic working conditions, economic insecurity and vulnerability, all of which has worsened in the last year by COVID-19. A first-of-its-kind mental health initiative […]
California Reopens, Pushes Vaccines. Also, Cartoons against Covid.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24 PROGRAM # 9298 12:00 PM PDT California Reopens, Pushes Vaccines. While California is celebrating the full reopening of businesses and activities, health officials are ramping up vaccination and offering vaccines to kids as young as 12. Is the Covid pandemic over in California? When should we wear a mask? Are vaccines required […]
(Español) En medio de la pandemia rompe récord inscripción al Medicaid
(Español) La administración de Biden ha dicho anteriormente que la emergencia de salud pública del coronavirus continuará al menos hasta fines de este año, lo que significa que también continuará la interrupción de los controles de elegibilidad, para que la gente vea si es elegible a la cobertura del Medicaid.
(Español) Arizona está que arde… como casi todo el sur y el oeste
(Español) A medida que las olas de calor “se vuelven más feroces” y las ciudades que atrapan el calor empujan a la gente cada vez más hacia afuera, las noches del desierto ya no se enfrían como antes… y las facturas del aire acondicionado son más caras que nunca”.
Latino Immigrant Becomes a National Leader of the LGBTQ + Community
The National LGBTQ Task Force, the oldest advocacy group of its kind in the United States, has appointed Mayra Hidalgo Salazar to a national leadership position. As a teenager, the Costa Rican-born activist organized young immigrants in Florida.
Extra Edition: Covid Variants.
THURSDAY, JUNE 17 PROGRAM # 9290 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: “Get the Vaccine, Prudencio.” A renowned poet, writer and performer got together former students, formed the theater group “La Familia Feliz,” and is now touring small towns around the Central Valley performing the play “Vacúnate, Prudencio.” In the story, the family succeeds in pressuring […]
Supreme Court Declines to Overturn ACA — Again
(Español) Fue la tercera vez en nueve años que se le ofreció al tribunal la oportunidad de poner fin de manera efectiva a la ley de salud, y la tercera vez que se negó… En los argumentos orales del caso, en noviembre pasado varios de los jueces conservadores dejaron en claro no estar de acuerdo con el argumento de los republicanos.
(Español) Coalición de 20 fiscales estatales bloquea esfuerzos en la Corte Suprema para derogar ACA
(Español) Y es que la Corte Suprema anuló la decisión de un tribunal inferior, sosteniendo que la coalición liderada por Texas “nunca estableció la posición necesaria para entablar esta demanda en primer lugar”.
Being Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Must Go Maskless. Here’s Why.
But the rate of vaccinations has slowed recently. One of the biggest contributions you can make to the public good right now is to get vaccinated — and help others do the same. Some people aren’t vaccinated because they lack mobility and can’t get to an appointment.
Collecting FEMA Funeral Money Takes Some Tenacity — And Help
Collecting FEMA Funeral Money is a federal program to help with the funeral expenses for people who died of covid is a challenge for grieving family members who aren’t fluent in English or the ways of a bureaucracy that takes some tenacity to really help.
Noticias
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth October 8, 2024
- "The Message": Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine October 8, 2024
- Headlines for October 8, 2024 October 8, 2024
- Report from Beirut: Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon, Displacing 1.2 Million October 7, 2024
- Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha: One Year After Oct. 7, U.S. Is Still Arming Israel's Slaughter in Gaza October 7, 2024
