What A Day29 Aug 2022

Kaiser Mental Health Care Workers Strike For Change

The Justice Department released the affidavit that led to the FBI search on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Although the document was heavily redacted, it does indicate that Trump had highly classified information about sensitive intelligence gathering, and that the FBI had reason to believe he was trying to obstruct the investigation into those records.

Over 2,000 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers in Northern California remain on strike. Today marks their 15th day since taking to the picket lines to protest huge caseloads and long wait times for their patients. Alexis Petrakis, a Kaiser therapist who’s on strike in the San Francisco Bay Area, tells us what changes she and her colleagues want to see from the health care giant.

And in headlines: flash floods and landslides in Pakistan have killed over 1,000 people since mid-June, deadly fighting broke out in Libya between two rival militias, and NASA plans to launch its most powerful rocket yet to the moon.

Show Notes:

National Union of Healthcare Workers: Kaiser Strike – https://nuhw.org/kaiser-dont-deny/kaiser-strike/
2022 Pakistan Floods Fundraisers (compiled by Ayisha Siddiqa): https://t.co/yCF1NcXah2
Vote Save America: Fuck Bans Action Plan – https://votesaveamerica.com/roe/

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