Reforming our broken healthcare system so that everyone has affordable access to high quality care is one the most important social justice fights of our generation. Healthcare reform should be a top priority for Latinos. Yet from the looks of what has been happening you'd never know it. Where I'm from, people say, "Si no tienes salud, no tienes nada." So why aren't Latinos fighting for their health?
As an organizer and health care advocate, I have worked with community members in Rochester, New York and in Florida to fix our broken health care system. In my mind, I considered the fight for health care reform as a needed policy change. Bringing together concerned citizens to apply pressure to the legislature to do what is morally right is how I viewed our task. Yet all of this changed on August 6th as town hall meetings were held across the country.
In Tampa, a town hall meeting organized by SEIU became a scene of intense hatred as citizens protested any kind of health care reform. Driven by misinformation and fear, they chanted, "Just say no!" and wouldn't allow for Congresswoman Kathy Castor and Representative Betty Reid to speak, try as they might. On » Read and Comment....
-Tristan Tomaselli is a not too old but not too young regular of Rochester’s counterculture nightlife. Former graphic designer turned aspiring English major, Tristan will be commenting on experiences and events in the local fringe scene with an emphasis on understanding the collective story of its occupants.
It’s a plan-b kind of night. I start off choosing the BugJar at random. I was expecting one thing when I got there but found another. Angst ridden live music was billowing out onto Monroe Ave, my companion and I could hear it from the car. It wasn’t our thing. We looked at each other and just knew it. Knew that we had no idea where to go from here. So we stopped and smoked and watched.
We watched a minivan pull up with about five or six under age kids. Looking less and less like our scene. The driver got out, took off his shoes and with more care than I give myself shaving he put on a pair of retro 80’s checkerboard kicks. His green bandanna was pressing back a tuft of high school length hair, matching scarf, matching jersey sleeves. I looked at my companion, and we left. We opted for » Read and Comment....
Plan-B Monday
It’s a plan-b kind of night. I start off choosing the BugJar at random. I was expecting one thing when I got there but found another. Angst ridden live music was billowing out onto Monroe Ave, my companion and I could hear it from the car. It wasn’t our thing. We looked at each other and just knew it. Knew that we had no idea where to go from here. So we stopped and smoked and watched.
We watched a minivan pull up with about five or six under age kids. Looking less and less like our scene. The driver got out, took off his shoes and with more care than I give myself shaving he put on a pair of retro 80’s checkerboard kicks. His green bandanna was pressing back a tuft of high school length hair, matching scarf, matching jersey sleeves. I looked at my companion, and we left. We opted for » Read and Comment....
The list below includes links to the searches of each of the five top recipients in Monroe County. These are complied from the current list (August 27, 2010) of top NYS recipients.
- The University of Rochester, $45,846,317 (link)
- The Rochester City School District, $38,180,286 (link)
- The County of Monroe, $26,319,233 (link)
- The Monroe County Water Authority, $23,730,887 (link)
- Regional Greater Rochester Transit Authority - RGRTA, $20,915,542 (link)
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