Ray Lauga from Louisiana talks about his struggle with existing health care system in an effort to show what's broken with the system. Ray believes that "In America, everyone should have affordable health care". Recorded on December 4, 2009 by Lorenzo Scott,AFL-CIO using a Flip Video camcorder.
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Don Bilodeau & Pete Kellman question the Gubernatorial Candidates Panel about their postion on legislation that would ensure that laid off workers with accumulated vacation time are entitled to immediate unemployment.
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At the Arkansas Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice annual awards banquet, Kim Bobo (founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice) speaks about the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Peter explains why he supports single-payer health care as the ultimate solution for the health care crisis. He also criticises the current proposals to tax benefits contained within the Baucus Plan.
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In this clip Mike Prokosch is giving a workshop on how right wing tax policies have shifted the tax burden on to the backs of working families. The workshop was given in the context of the TABOR II and Excise Tax Shift ballot initiatives that are currently being debated in Maine. Both measures will adversely effect working people under the pretense of helping them.
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AFSCME Nurses speak out about health insurance reform in Little Rock, 10-10
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