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Analysis of HR 3962
Analysis of HR 3962 prepared by the United Methodist General Board of Church & Society.  Read more...

Health Reform and Illegal Immigration: The Truth

by Froma Harrop

In their tireless efforts to kill health care reform, right-wingers have fanned fears that it would attract illegal aliens. This sideshow is rather twisted because, actually, the reforms would do the opposite. They would help curb illegal immigration.  Read more...


Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps

by: Howard Berkes, Monday 27 July 2009

It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.  Read more…

What About the Homeland Security of the Coalfield Residents?
Editor Jon Queally at Common Dreams has just posted the testimony of Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe, a community organizer with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, from last Thursday’s historic Senate hearing on mountaintop removal.  Read more...

Bill Introduced to End the Dumping of Mining Waste into Streams

U.S. Senators Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would prohibit the dumping of mining waste into streams, effectively ending the practice known as mountaintop mining.  Read more...
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Call or write Senators Cardin and Alexander and thank them for introducing the legislation and offer to support their efforts. Contact information may be found on the senators’ websites at:
http://alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
and http://cardin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm 

GBCS 2009 Legislative Priorities
Summary of the 2009 Legislative priorities set by The United Methodist General Board of Church & Society (GBCS).  Read more...
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