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Gabriel Winant’s book de-emphasizes manufacturing and highlights care workers. But it neglects the forces of power that keep all workers down.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Age Wave CEO Ken Dychtwald join Honoring Nursing Home Lives Lost Share Article During Older American Month, a national day of remembrance for the nation to collectively grieve while raising public awareness of the need for nursing home transformation. Ken Dychtwald - CEO, Age Wave . . . how sad for the nearly 1M family members who weren’t able to tell their elder loved one – just how much they were loved and will be deeply missed. This is a time to pause – a...

Honoring Nursing Home Lives A Free Virtual Event Share Article Staggering. Incomprehensible. Recently, the number of nursing home deaths was determined to be 182,000 and climbing. In response, Gray Panthers is presenting a Virtual National Day of Remembrance. During Older Americans Month this virtual event represents an opportunity for the nation to collectively grieve while raising public awareness of the need for nursing home transformation. We must be able to express that basic human need �...

Crip Camp, by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Photo: Steve Honigsbaum When James “Jim” LeBrecht was 15 years old, he picked up a video camera and pointed it at Camp Jened, a utopian summer camp in upstate New York for teenagers with disabilities. That summer day in 1971 was a seminal moment in the future filmmaker’s life as LeBrecht introduced his fellow campers to the camera. The film footage LeBrecht captured would later be included in Crip Camp – a documentary he and fellow Oakland...

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Many would argue that Jan. 6 made clear the despicable systemic racial underpinnings inherent in policing. Unfortunately, this demented attitude is emboldened by the overall silence of a majority of

Be more effective in doing their job." which of course, means the police foundation, the countrys leading think tank on effective and just police work is on the nras enemys list. as is every other group i have mentioned. now lets take a look at that list of enemies of the national rifle association and see if we can make any sense of it at all. the american association of retired people, the gray panthers, the american civil liberties union, the conference of surgeons, the police foundation. tha...