Tag Archives: black lung

Corporate dollars can control development, health, and justice, until we organize and investigate

A victory against gentrification in NYC

Artwashing gentrification

Brooklyn: before and after gentrification

Walmart closes in the midst of union demands, judge rules unfair

Millionaire supreme court justices

Labor department targets Hopkins doctor for denying workers compensation…

…and the investigation that revealed the corruption

US Health System spends the most on health/capita and ranks last among eleven countries on measures of access, equity, quality, efficiency, and healthy lives

Johns Hopkins Hospital: a partner in medical negligence?

…with the coal industry: results in consistent denial of benefits to coal workers.

It is difficult to understand how such intentional and corrupt practices could continue for so many years. Are medical institutions and universities so powerful that they can commit medical negligence and go un-challenged by so many? Is the greed for money such a powerful force that neglecting the health needs of so many can go un-challenged? Have we reached a stage in society where powerful institutions are beyond challenge, accountability, and transparency?

Dear friends, read the following links and decide how you will organize for justice! We must rebuild the unhealthy ways power continues to corrupt, NOW.

Johns Hopkins under the microscope after investigation by Center for Public Integrity and ABC: black lung disease consistently undiagnosed by Hopkins physicians

full report of investigation