Alachua County Labor Party

Urge your rep to vote Yes for Medicare for All

This fall presents a historic opportunity for members of Congress to go on the record in support of ’single-payer’ legislation.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is introducing a substitute amendment to the House leadership’s bill, H.R. 3200, that would delete the language of that bill and substitute the provisions of H.R. 676, the single-payer, Medicare-for-All bill sponsored [...]

Holding signs at Stearns’ town meeting

Alachua County Labor Party members hold signs in Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Ocala) town meeting September 26, 2009.

Join us at Rep. Cliff Stearns town hall meeting

Saturday, Sept. 26: Join us at Rep. Stearns’ Gainesville town hall meeting which is from noon to 1:30 at the Santa Fe College Gymnasium, Building V, 3000 N. W. 83rd. St. We’re bringing signs and flyers - let us know if you can to meet us there and help pass them out. Thanks!
Saturday, September 26
Gainesville
12:00 [...]

*Two protests call for major health care reform, protest private insurance

Contrary to many media reports, most people in the U.S. want to see a major health care overhaul, and large majorities want private insurance companies eliminated from our health care system entirely.
Today (Tuesday, September 22) two different protests will take place, both demanding that our political representatives stand up to the [...]

Picket Tuesday Sept. 22

Health care YES, insurance companies NO
Picket Tuesday, Sept. 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
at West University Ave. & 13th St.
On Tuesday, the Alachua County Labor Party is joining forces with Veterans for Peace for a picket to advocate for real health care reform: Everybody in, nobody out!
It’s time for a big public push back against the [...]

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The Labor Party Program: A Call for Economic Justice

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  • Amend the Constitution to Guarantee Everyone a Job at a Living Wage
  • Pay Laid-off Workers Two Months Severance for Every Year of Service
  • Restore Workers Rights to Organize, Bargain and Strike
  • End Bigotry: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
  • Guarantee Universal Access to Quality Health Care
  • More Time for Family and Community
  • Protect Our Families
  • Ensure Everyone Access to Quality Public Education
  • Stop Corporate Abuse of Trade
  • End Corporate Welfare as We Know It
  • Make the Wealthy Pay their Fair Share of Taxes
  • Revitalize the Public Sector
  • End Corporate Domination of Elections
  • Build A Just Transition Movement to Protect Jobs and the Environment
  • Enforce Safety & Health Regulation with Worker Inspectors
  • Reclaiming the Workplace: Job Design, Technology and Skill

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