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Ethel Long-Scott

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Ethel Long-Scott is Executive Director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project, (WEAP), dedicated to attaining economic human rights for all people.. WEAP serves as state host of the California Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She is known nationally and internationally for devoting her life to the education and leadership of people at the losing end of society, especially women of color. She is dedicated to economic security and justice and believes that the US is engaged in a relentless war against workers and the poor. Click here to contact Ms. Long-Scott.

6 pieces

Cover Story

Building a Movement For a Better Future (The past ain’t comin’ back!)

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

For all of the talk about getting our economy back from its 2008 crash, two things haven’t changed. The super rich continue to get richer at the expense of the rest of us, while workers continue to lose ground. Now that Congress and state legislatures are struggling with what additional safety net programs to cut,…

For all of the talk about getting our economy back from its 2008 crash, two things haven’t changed. The super rich continue to get richer at…

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Cover Story

Why the new health insurance law is so short-sighted – Part 43 of a BC Series

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

The trouble with the new health insurance law just signed by President Obama is that it’s amazingly short-sighted for a law that takes eight years to become fully operational. By not dealing with four fundamental problems, the new law is equivalent to trying to ease a housing shortage by adding more floors to the tops…

The trouble with the new health insurance law just signed by President Obama is that it’s amazingly short-sighted for a law that takes eight years to…

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Commentary

And the People Spoke

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

Everyone agrees that President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day was wonderful, uplifting, cathartic, historic and amazing, Nearly 2 million people from all the different tribes of America came together almost as one in Washington D.C. to celebrate the vanquishing of one towering symbol of inequality and injustice. Now that it is headed by a black family,…

Everyone agrees that President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day was wonderful, uplifting, cathartic, historic and amazing, Nearly 2 million people from all the different tribes of America…

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Universal Single-Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care For All

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

The statistical warnings of a health care system in meltdown are flooding in from all corners of the country. More than 48 million Americans are without healthcare, and that number is exploding upwards as our shrinking economy sheds the jobs that our health care is supposed to be based on – more than half a…

The statistical warnings of a health care system in meltdown are flooding in from all corners of the country. More than 48 million Americans are without…

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Commentary

Single-Payer Healthcare – A BlackCommentator.com Series – Part 38: Working for Health Justice & Economic Security!

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

Our nation is being presented with an amazing opportunity right now. We have the resources to give good health care to everyone who lives here. We have the opportunity to end the agonizing worry and unnecessary suffering of so many people about their health care. What stands in the way is a time-honored idea that…

Our nation is being presented with an amazing opportunity right now. We have the resources to give good health care to everyone who lives here. We…

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Commentary

Stop Gambling with your Health – Build a Health Justice Movement – Single-Payer Healthcare – A BlackCommentator.com Series – Part 37

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

If you care about being as healthy as possible, you might want to leave the United States. When it comes to basic health care, 36 other countries – as well as the United Nations – are way ahead of the U.S., even though we are the wealthiest nation the world has ever known. If you…

If you care about being as healthy as possible, you might want to leave the United States. When it comes to basic health care, 36 other…

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