by Susan Rowe [courtesy of Blog for America]

UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? is a seven-part documentary produced by California Newsreel and aired nationally on PBS in late March and early April 2008.  This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. It's about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner in the first place. UNNATURAL CAUSES sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in our lives - the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the neighborhoods we lives in - can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses.  

by Susan Rowe [courtesy of Blog for America]

...OTHER RICH COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

WHY DON'T WE?

On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET PBS presents sick around the world. Americans say our health care system is broken, but are other countries any better off? Journey with FRONTLINE to five other countries which are also capitalist democracies in search of a Universal Health Care system that could work in the U.S. See what's working, what's not, and whether their ideas could work here. YES, WE CAN!

Sick Around The World

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez will travel to Iowa this weekend to campaign for Senator Hillary Clinton.

Nunez, the first major elected official in California to support the New York Senator's candidacy, will represent Clinton at "The Iowa Brown & Black Forum" in Des Moines. The Forum is the nation’s only presidential forum in which all candidates have the opportunity to answer essential concerns of African-Americans and Latinos. All eight Democratic presidential candidates will participate.

The two hour-long forum will begin at 8:00 pm ET on Saturday, December 1. It will be moderated by Michele Norris, host of National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered," and Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for PBS’s "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."

Panel members will be Dr. Juan Andrade Jr., President of US Hispanic Leadership Institute; Angel F. Gonzalez Irizarry, Vice Chair for State of Iowa's Commission of Latino Affairs, Adrien K. Wing, Professor of Law, University of Iowa; and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Hip Hop Summit Action Network President and CEO. Details on the event can be found here.

Nunez will meet with Iowa voters and campaign with Senator Clinton in Des Moines before and after the forum.

The 2008 Iowa Caucus will be held January 3, 2008.

by Crystal Strait [courtesy of Party Line]

by michael gentile [courtesy of Blog for America]

"Bill Moyers Journal" is back on PBS and it kicks off tonight with a program entitled "Buying the War,"  The program will explore how the major media outlets let us down in the run-up to the war.  This is somewhat well-trodden ground, but I'm sure under Moyers' authorship the program will provide some valuable insights.

The program is on from 9:00 to 10:30 on 4/25 on KCET. "Bill Moyers Journal" will start airing regularly on PBS on Friday evenings after tonights premiere.