In the unlikely event that you don’t have enough to do, here are some single-payer healthcare events for your amusement:

Labor Day parades turn out to be a big venue for promoting single payer healthcare. You may want to check out your local event. Here in Pittsburgh we’ll be handing out leaflets, as well as marching with the letter carriers. If any of you Pittsburghers want to come, look for us at “Freedom Corner” (Center and Crawford) or at the City-County Building before the parade. Most of us will be wearing red or orange shirts.  Read more 

AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees?

For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation’s capital, the “modern epidemic”—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks.

The numbers most starkly illustrate HIV’s impact on the African American community. More than 80 percent of the 3,269 HIV cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among black men, women and adolescents. Among women who tested positive, a rising percentage of local cases, nine of 10 were African American. […]

The District’s AIDS rate is the worst of any city in the country, nearly twice the rate in New York and more than four times the incidence in Detroit, and it has been climbing faster than that of many jurisdictions. […]

—Study Calls HIV in D.C. A ’Modern Epidemic’; More Than 80 Percent Of Recent Cases Were Among Black Residents

And big propz must go to the woman who dares try and change the world, as well as shout out the truth as she lives and sees it:  Read more