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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 – and share respect – and to collectively grieve - for the terrible loss we have just witnessed.

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 – to collectively grieve and honor our loved ones. This issue affects everybody – young and old, u...

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 filmmaker Nicole Newnham directed and produced, along with Sara Bolder (LeBrecht’s wife), and for...

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