Can USA Provide Free, Public Medical Care Like Brazil? (w/fotos)

"""Free public neighborhood health clinic in Brazilwhere treatment is provided to all as fundamental right."I am not convinced that single payer is necessary to dramatically improve health care in the US. I believe that making health care a right (like the right to vote) - a...

Return to the Golden Age of Cigarette Advertising

If you're in New York this looks interesting.  It's also a great excuse to see one of the city's most impressive buildings, the Public Library. "NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- An exhibit of print advertising is as...

Local SF Shelter Resident Puts New Books In Shelters- Without Funding !

Friday, April 4, 2008Shelter Resident Creates Libraries Inside San Francisco Shelters Without Funding !San Francisco has an abundance of talent, ideas, creativity and 'outof the box' thinking -- right inside of our own tax funded HomelessShelters. We have some great shelter...

Vancouver: Pro-China Protesters Support Non-Violence in Tibet

Approximately 200 pro-China protesters have gathered on the steps of the Vancouver Public Library this afternoon.  They are wearing white t-shirts with "Anti Riot and Explore The Truth" on their backs, and...

CUPE Continues To Lock Poor Out of Services in Vancouver

Canadian Union of Public Employees has been back to work at Carnegie Center on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for some time, but they continue to lock the poor out of services.These povertarians got themselves a...

CUPE Returns: Blocks Poor From Accessing Computers at Carnegie Center

CUPE came back. Striking Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 15 members returned to work today at Carnegie Center in Vancouver. But they are not allowing the poor to return to work. CUPE members are blocking the poor from the public access computers inside Carnegie...

VPL Librarians Should Hold a Spelling Bee

Striking librarians are keeping themselves busy on the picket line at the VPL Main Branch with knitting, read-ins, and puppet theatre.   Maybe they should hold a spelling bee. Look at the Fairness for Civic Workers website, at a prominent...

VPL Cuts Internet to Poor

Downtown Eastside residents eager for computers have been denied access to the fourteen computers on the 3rd floor of the Carnegie Centre during the strike by civic workers.  They have also...

Sex, Meat, and the Vancouver Public Library

The Vancouver Public Library has chosen Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats as the title for this year's "book club for the entire city." A sexy, poignant, funny tale about global meat and media production, My Year of...

Library patrons mob new building

"Even before 11-year-old Johnesha Page and 9-year-old Shawnae Washington stepped inside the new Minneapolis Central Library downtown, they knew which books they were going to check out."

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