Aaron Cantú at Alternet writes
30,000 March in New York City to Demand End to Racist, Violent Policing. An excerpt:
On Saturday, about 30,000 people poured into the streets of Manhattan to protest unaccountable, racist police violence. The march was organized by a group called Millions March. Prominent figures like the rapper Nas, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, showed up to a rally organized by grassroots activists, making it the scrappy counterpart to a glossier march happening the same day in Washington, DC, which was organized by Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
By 2pm there were already thousands of people in Washington Square Park, including college students, families from the outer boroughs, old-school peace activists, black-clad anarchists, even busloads of students from high schools and middle schools from across the Northeast. At about 2:10, members of the Justice League, a nonprofit organization with deep connections to City Hall, made their arrival known with a banner and a loud proclamation of “No justice, no peace.” As thousands prepared to march down 5th Avenue, two members of Justice League spoke through a PA system, leading the crowd with chants of “Whose streets? Our streets,” and "Black lives matter." […]
The streets had in fact been given to marchers: The route through Manhattan was planned in advance with the city in order for people of various ability and ages to show up, according to the organizers. While people began to swarm the streets, which were barricaded on the sides, Nicholas Hayward Sr. stood stone-faced in sunglasses and a black baseball cap near the arches. On his shirt and cap were buttons with images of his young son, Nicholas Hayward Jr.
Hayward said his son had been shot and killed by an NYPD officer in 1994 after the officer saw him playing with a toy gun. “I am outraged at the fact that the man who murdered Eric Garner has not been indicted,” Hayward said. "I am outraged [for] the 367 innocent people killed in NYC since my son's death in 1994. That tells me there are 367 police out here still roaming the street that killed innocent lives.”
Despite his righteous anger, Hayward said he was encouraged by Saturday's massive turnout. “I've been protesting and rallying for the last 20 years, since my son was murdered. And I have never seen an outpouring of people coming together saying, No more: enough is enough. I am honored to be here today. I really am.” [...]
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009—Reid Caves: Medicare Buy-in, Public Option Pulled from Senate Bill:
With Tom Harkin pre-capitulating, telling TMPDC that "There's enough good in this bill that even without those two, we gotta move," even before the Dem caucus met to decide the way forward, the writing was on the wall. Add Rockefeller, who says he'll vote for the bill even without Medicare buy-in, and it's gone.
A number of sources are reporting that the majority capitulated to Lieberman, who was in attendance in the meeting, cuz, you know, he's with us on everything but the war.
Senators emerging from the special Democratic caucus confirm that the Medicare buy-in proposal will have to be stripped from the Senate bill in order to achieve 60 votes.
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So what's out next at Lieberman's demand? The 90% medical loss ratio is destined to be a goner, now that the CBO has concluded that requiring insurance companies to pay 90% of money collected through premiums out in direct medical care would--and this I don't get at all--"make such insurance an essentially governmental program," that's gonna be out.
What's Lieberman's next demand going to be? My guess is Medicaid subsidies have to be removed.
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