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	<title>The Social Medicine Portal</title>
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	<description>An Alternative to Corporate Health</description>
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		<title>BEWARE: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING INTERPRETED TO SUIT THE FREE MARKET.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. These days, the market is presented to us as capable of resolving all problems &#8211;even of protecting human rights; but the latter, basically through the façade of corporate social responsibility (see Human Rights Readers 190 and 191).
2. The market, it is said, must have access to everything. So people’s rights must all be ‘conveniently’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/01/human-rights/beware-human-rights-are-being-interpreted-to-suit-the-free-market/</link>
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		<title>MASSACHUSETTS: Doing the same thing and expecting different results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been much talk about Massachusetts since the victory of Senate Republican Scott Brown. Many have suggested this victory was a referendum on the Democrat’s health care reform “overhaul” awaiting a unified bill to be signed by President Obama. The centerpiece of this plan is a mandate, i.e., a legal obligation to buy health insurance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/26/uncategorized/massachusetts-doing-the-same-thing-and-expecting-different-results/</link>
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		<title>Medicare for All Rally &#8211; San Francisco, February 25, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ask you to you join the Medicare for All Rally, tomorrow February 25, 2010 in San Francisco!  This is an important time to be active and let President Obama know about Health Policy that really works!
At 10 AM outside the San Francisco Federal Building  (90  7th St., between Market and Mission – Civic Center BART/MUNI) join activists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/24/health-activism/medicare-for-all-rally-san-francisco-february-25-2010/</link>
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		<title>Attention Medical Students: CaPA Medical Student Fellowships Program is taking applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) would like to invite you to apply for the CaPA Medical Student Fellowship.  The fellowship is a phenomenal, one-year, full-time, PAID position to work on healthcare reform and advance the single-payer movement.  It is THE only fellowship of its kind in California and an incredible opportunity for those interested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/18/uncategorized/attention-medical-students-capa-medical-student-fellowships-program-is-taking-applications/</link>
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		<title>The White House does not answer letters on Single Payer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following letter was sent to the White House on Feb. 9, two days after President Obama announced his plans to convene a bipartisan summit on health reform on Feb. 25 in Washington. Unsurprisingly, even if disappointingly, we&#8217;re still waiting for an answer. 
February 9, 2010
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC  20500
Dear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/18/health-activism/the-white-house-does-not-answer-letters-on-single-payer/</link>
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		<title>LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: CONNECTING THE IVORY TOWER TO MAINSTREET. (C. L. Schur)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern)
 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Santayana)
1. When really committed to human rights (HR), civil society organizations and individuals in academia have to use their (new) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/13/human-rights/learning-from-experience-connecting-the-ivory-tower-to-mainstreet-c-l-schur/</link>
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		<title>Waves of Change: Developing Physician Leadership in our Practices, Communities, and Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends from the National Physicians Alliance (see prior postings) have passed on an invitation to their 5th annual meeting to be held March 13-15, 2010 in Long Beach, Califonia.  For information and registration, please click on this link.  To give readers of the Portal a sense of what some physician activists are up to, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/02/04/globalization-and-health/waves-of-change-developing-physician-leadership-in-our-practices-communities-and-nation/</link>
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		<title>Actions and activism in fostering genuine grassroots participation in health and nutrition.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, 
but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so
as to get them organized.  (A. Robbins)

1. You may often have asked yourself as to whether your individual contribution in the field of health and/or nutrition makes or is making any difference.  This, of course, depends.  Alone, each of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/human-rights/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;There is still time for real reform, Mr. President&#8221;: An Open Letter to President Obama on Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By Margaret Flowers, M.D.
January 28, 2010
President Barack Obama&#124;
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
I was overjoyed to hear you say in your State of the Union address last night:
&#8220;But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/28/us-health-care/there-is-still-time-for-real-reform-mr-president-an-open-letter-to-president-obama-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>Single Payer Universal Health Care Bill Clears Senate in California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release:  1/28/10
January 28,  2010
Leno&#8217;s Single Payer Health Insurance Legislation
Wins Senate Vote 22 to 14
California OneCare Campaign
Reveals Massive Netroots, Grassroots Campaign  
By a vote of 22 to 14, the California Senate today passed historic reform legislation, SB 810, that calls for sweeping changes in the financing of health care.
Under the bill, authored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/28/health-activism/single-payer-universal-health-care-bill-clears-senate-in-california/</link>
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