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At 5 PM MST Dr Margaret Flowers returns to discuss her advocacy for single payer insurance. BALTIMORE (Oct. 29, 2009) – Four protesters, including two doctors, were arrested at a “single-payer health care plan” sit-in at the CareFirst insurance company office in Baltimore Thursday. The protest, part of the “Patients Not Profits” campaign of the Mobilization for Health Care for All, was jointly organized by advocacy groups Prosperity Agenda, Healthcare-NOW!, and the Center for the Working Poor. Baltimore was one of 20 cities nationwide to host such protests this week, said Kai Newkirk, national coordinator for the Mobilization in a conference call Tuesday. Charles Loubert of Baltimore, Dr. Eric Naumburg of Columbia, Patricia Courtney of Millersville and Dr. Margaret Flowers were among about 30 protesters chanting “Single Payer Now, Health Care for All” outside the locked front doors of the insurance company office.

At 5:30 PM MST Katherine Spillar – Vice President of Feminist Majority Foundation and Executive Director of Ms Magazine Women have become the majority of paid workers in the United States for the first time in history. Ms. magazine has just released an in-depth feature, Paycheck Feminism, on what a majority-women workforce means for our social policies. Our nation must update an outdated social contract, crafted in the 1930s, to reflect the changed role of women today. Ms. proposes 5 next steps to bring Social Security, health insurance, family and medical leave, childcare, and payroll taxes into the new millennium.

…As we reform the social safety net for the 21st-century economy, we must make sure that women are not left behind. We are at a time of opportunity—the country as a whole is realizing the need to reform many of our New Deal programs that are so important to our economy and to American families. We cannot let this opportunity to increase the economic security of all women—now 50 percent of paid workers—pass us by once again.

Special thanks to the IInstitute for Women’s Policy Research. To view PDF version click here. Karen Kornbluh is a visiting fellow at the Center for American Progress. She served as policy director for then- Senator Barack Obama and founded the Work and Family Program of the New America Foundation. Rachel Homer has interned for the Feminist Majority Foundation, as well as worked for the Democratic National Committee on the 2008 Democratic Platform.

At 6 PM MST Richard J.F. Day to discuss the history & misappropriation of ‘anarchism‘ in the mainstream media. Richard Day’s Ph.D. thesis is a study of ethnic identity and state regulation in Canada since the arrival of the Europeans. It uses Lacanian and Foucaultian theory to analyze and critique the Canadian discourse on ‘ethnic and racial diversity‘ as a public problem requiring rational-bureaucratic solutions. It was published in 2000 by University of Toronto Press as Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. His current work focuses on the broader question of the articulation of social subjects with group identities such as those offered up by nations, states, and capitalist corporations. He is particularly interested in the possibilities for radical social change via the construction of alternative communities and polities. This has led to research into theoretical and practical models derived from western anarchism, Native American political theory, the anti-globalization movement, as well as feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution — that is a sign the revolution is for real. C. Wright Mills

In addition to his academic work, Richard maintains a commitment to strengthening co-operative (non-coercive, non-corporate, non-state) forms of social organization wherever and whenever possible, and is involved in various local and global activist projects.

We spoke earlier with Spider Robinson Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and countless other international and regional awards. Most of his 36 books are still in print, in 10 languages.

“Nobody’s perfect, but Spider comes pretty damned close“ – Ben Bova

His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies. The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans and its many internet offshoots, inspired by his Callahan’s Place series, for many years constituted one of the largest non-porn networks in cyberspace. In 2006, he became the only writer ever to collaborate on a novel with First GrandMaster of Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein, posthumously completing Variable Star. That same year the Library of Congress invited him to Washington D.C. to be a guest of the First Lady at the White House for the National Book Festival. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature. His wife’s Jeanne film project Stardance is here looks like a must-see art project. Diehard Callahan fans can meet up in many esoteric places, such as Second Life or Callahans.org, but remember, All Time Travellers Strictly Cash! Spider On The Web, the FREE podcast, is updated twice a month with fresh content.

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