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Download The AUGUST 2008, VOLUME 35, NO. 8 DONATION $1 Norwalk Furniture employees gathered about 50 employees and headed up in a caravan to Comerica headquarters in Detroit with one message: “Norwalk Furniture Calling, Answer Your Phone.” PHOTO /COURTESY OF THE NORWALK REFLECTOR CRISIS IN THE HEARTLAND Story On Ohio Plant Closing Stuns A Community Page 7 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Page 3 — Cover Story: Financial Collapse Shows Depth of Crisis People’s Tribune 40 Years Page 11 — The Elections and Corporate Power 1968-2008 Rev. Pinkney. See Pgs. 4 & 12 Page 12 — Pastor Fighting Whirlpool Jailed PHOTO /DAYMONJHARTLEY.COM for Paraphrasing Bible EDITORIAL The People’s Tribune is devoted to the proposition that an economic system that can’t or won’t feed, clothe and house its The Fight For Health Care people ought to be and will be changed. To that end, this paper is a tribune of the people. It is the voice of millions struggling As A Human Right for survival. It strives to educate politically those millions on the basis of their own experience. It is a tribune to bring them to- The health care system in this coun- back care and shifting costs to the work- the dispossessed, this will advance the gether, to create a vision of a better world, try is in deep crisis. A broad movement ers. Public hospitals and publicly sub- cause of all the workers in the country. and a strategy to achieve it. for change is developing that will ulti- sidized health care programs are being In the health care arena, the demand mately demand health care for all as a privatized or eliminated in the name of of the dispossessed is for quality health We fi nd ourselves at a historic moment as human right. The real question is how boosting corporate profi ts. Meanwhile, care provided to all as a human right. labor-replacing technology leads us on a do we engage in the fi ght for health care the cost of care continues to skyrocket. The fi ght for a single-payer system path toward the decisive reconstruction of in a way that keeps it on track toward Advancing technology and a glo- takes us along the path to health care society. Who will win — the capitalists or the ultimate goal of health care for ev- balized economy mean the mass of as a human right. We should be wary the growing mass of poor — will depend eryone? We need to rally around the formerly stably employed workers that of proposals that keep the private insur- on winning the hearts and minds of the people to create a society whose fruits struggle to create a single-payer system, benefi t all. where the private insurance companies are eliminated, the government is the We offer our pages as a vehicle for the sole payer for health care, and everyone new ideas rooted in our reality, and to be has guaranteed access to quality care. the voice of those who seek to raise the Historically in the U.S., health care consciousness of society. Let us gather has been provided as part of a social con- our collective experience, intelligence and tract between employers and workers. It commitment to bring forth a vision that was intended to keep workers healthy so changes America into a society “by the they could go on working and creating people, of the people, for the people.” profi t for employers. Currently there are PEOPLE’S TRIBUNE EDITORIAL POLICY: various tiers of health coverages from Articles that are unsigned, such as the cover different sources: employer-provided story and editorials, refl ect the views of the health insurance; people paying for editorial board. Bylined articles refl ect the health care out of their own pockets; views of the authors, and may or may not public hospitals and public programs refl ect the views of the editorial board. like Medicaid and Medicare; and char- ity. But regardless of the source of cov- Deadlines for articles and art: The deadline erage, at the heart of this system is the for articles, photographs and other art is the assumption that the employers needed fi rst of each month for the issue that comes the labor of the workers. Plus, of course, out at the beginning of the following month. there is money to be made in the health For example, the deadline for the June is- sue is May 1. Articles should be as short as care system itself by doctors, hospitals, possible, and no longer than 600 words. We insurers, suppliers and drug companies. reserve the right to edit articles to conform Today, more and more produc- was once at the heart of the U.S. work- ers intact and that in one way or another to space limitations. tion is done by computers and robots. ing class is being replaced by a rap- would force individual workers to take This means fewer and fewer work- idly growing class of the dispossessed. responsibility for paying for their own People’s Tribune Editor: Bob Lee ers are needed, and corporations don’t These are the permanently unemployed, care. A single-payer system eliminates provide health care for workers they part-time, contingency and low-wage the private health insurers, guarantees Editorial Staff: Cliff Bailey, Bob Brown, don’t need. And globalization means workers, and they have few if any ben- coverage to all, and makes the govern- Nelson Peery, Sandra Reid the corporations are competing glob- efi ts. Increasingly, the system can no ment responsible for paying for care. Photo Editor: Daymon J. Hartley ally for markets, and the workers are longer provide workers with the neces- Not only will single-payer itself be a step competing globally for jobs. The result sities of life, including health care. In forward, but the fi ght for it will increas- People’s Tribune, P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, Illinois, 60654 is that wages are driven down and ben- the end, only a new society that distrib- ingly bring the movement up against a e-mail: [email protected] efi ts like health care are eliminated in utes the necessities of life according system that is impoverishing us all. This Phone: 773-486-3551 the global “race to the bottom.” At the to need, not ability to pay, can satisfy struggle will allow those fi ghting to see Fax: 773-486-3552 same time, the businesses involved in their needs. The dispossessed cannot the necessity and possibility of creat- web: www.peoplestribune.org the health care system itself—as inves- compromise, because they are fi ght- ing a new society free of want, where tors, payers, suppliers or providers— ing for survival. This means that if we each of us can achieve our full potential. Publisher: People’s Tribune push to boost their profi ts by cutting base our struggle on the demands of ISSN# 1081-4787 Reach us at: Chicago Why Revolutionaries Need A Press 773-486-3551 Atlanta From the Editors [email protected] We are sometimes asked “Why do revolutionaries need a press?” The answer has to do with this moment in Detroit history. People are struggling just to get the basic necessities of life. Historical forces beyond anyone’s control 313-438-6115 have set the stage for a new society to be built, but from this point on, how things turn out depends on what Oakland people think. This means that those of us who are seeking fundamental change are engaged in a battle of ideas, P.O. Box 22084 a struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people. If we don’t raise the consciousness of the people and unite Oakland, Ca 94623 them around a vision of a better world and a strategy to achieve it, then we’ll fail in our effort to build a just and [email protected] free society. To win the battle of ideas, we need a press. Visit us on the web at www.peoplestribune.org 2 PEOPLE’S TRIBUNE | AUGUST 2008 www.peoplestribune.org COVER STORY FINANCIAL COLLAPSE SHOWS DEPTH OF CRISIS: The people must chart a new course ized, i.e. taken over and put under gov- wealth under capitalism. Thus we see leadership we are headed for war and ernment ownership or control. If the mountains of wealth evaporating while fascism. Ultimately, war is the way U.S. ever had to take on the full debt the value of human life, as evidenced they will attempt to resolve the crisis. of these companies, the U.S. public by the sheer number of people living in We, the people, must fi ght for a new debt, which already exceeds $9.4 tril- the streets, is driven to zero. The bot- society where the marvelous technol- lion, would almost double at a stroke. tom line is that workers are steadily ogy is used to guarantee that everyone A chorus of appeals to reign in the losing their jobs to new technology. has the necessities of life. Such a soci- two monster companies circulated for With little or no money, workers can- ety enlists the social contribution of ev- years. Government offi cials turned a not consume what the robots produce. eryone. It is a world worth fi ghting for. blind eye to their questionable account- This destroys the market for what is pro- What can we do right now? Even- ing errors of around $5.5 billion. A duced, and the market economy begins tually the government will be forced to politician trying to look into their books to collapse.
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