Erika Feresten
@erikaferesten.bsky.social
Chair of Health Care for US hc4us.org, BLM-LA ally, proud mom of Jack & James
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Check out our latest HC4US show on KPFK where we are talking all things climate change as it relates to our health, or lack thereof! Thank you @auravasquez.bsky.social for sharing your knowledge with us and our host Jackie Hernandez.
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2025-04-25 - HC4US show with host Jackie Hernandez and guest Aura Vasquez
In the episode, your host is Jackie Hernandez with guest Aura Vasquez (http://AuraVasquez.com/meet-aura), a renewable energy advisor and environmental justice advocate. A nationally recognized leader
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April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Check out our latest HC4US show on KPFK where we are talking all things climate change as it relates to our health, or lack thereof! Thank you @auravasquez.bsky.social for sharing your knowledge with us and our host Jackie Hernandez.
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Today on April 9th, we will never forget Danny, or stop fighting for the single payer healthcare that would have saved his life. www.timesunion.com/news/article...
After son's suicide, Stillwater father fights 'cruel, indifferent' health system
A lot of things happened in a short period of time to drive Daniel Desnoyers to suicide,...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today on April 9th, we will never forget Danny, or stop fighting for the single payer healthcare that would have saved his life. www.timesunion.com/news/article...
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Don’t miss our latest and greatest episode where Jackie talks immigration and health. on.soundcloud.com/cyTVjNc5doox...
02/28/2025 - host Jackie Hernandez; the intersection between health, immigration and well-being
This episode features host Jacqueline Hernandez, a health educator, researcher, and community health specialist with a background in psychology, sociology, and public health. She is dedicated to healt
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March 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Don’t miss our latest and greatest episode where Jackie talks immigration and health. on.soundcloud.com/cyTVjNc5doox...
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Today’s KPFK show can be not only heard, but seen here as well. Maebe A Girl joined us to talk about their own journey in being trans and what is happening at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
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KPFK HC4US 56
YouTube video by Health Care for US (HC4US)
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March 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today’s KPFK show can be not only heard, but seen here as well. Maebe A Girl joined us to talk about their own journey in being trans and what is happening at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
youtube.com/live/2ihJrRm...
youtube.com/live/2ihJrRm...
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📣Urge the CA legislature to reduce corrections spending, close prisons & invest in critical social, health, education and environmental programs currently at risk 📲 bit.ly/budgetaction25
💡Closing 5 prisons can save over $1.5 billion annually that can and must be shifted to our communities!#CAbudget
💡Closing 5 prisons can save over $1.5 billion annually that can and must be shifted to our communities!#CAbudget
February 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📣Urge the CA legislature to reduce corrections spending, close prisons & invest in critical social, health, education and environmental programs currently at risk 📲 bit.ly/budgetaction25
💡Closing 5 prisons can save over $1.5 billion annually that can and must be shifted to our communities!#CAbudget
💡Closing 5 prisons can save over $1.5 billion annually that can and must be shifted to our communities!#CAbudget
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Today’s read! Thank you @ericreinhart.bsky.social and Raeghn Draper for this vital piece about putting the PUBLIC back into our public health.
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Democratizing care to care for democracy: community care workers and anti-racist public health
Abstract. The organization of care in the United States reflects a longstanding prioritization of medical interventions over broader social support systems
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April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today’s read! Thank you @ericreinhart.bsky.social and Raeghn Draper for this vital piece about putting the PUBLIC back into our public health.
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academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
'Travesty of Justice': Jury Finds Greenpeace Must Pay Over $660 Million in Dakota Access Pipeline Case www.commondreams.org/news/greenpe...
'Travesty of Justice': Jury Finds Greenpeace Must Pay Over $660 Million in Dakota Access Pipeline Case | Common Dreams
"We will not be silenced," the green group said in response to the verdict.
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March 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
'Travesty of Justice': Jury Finds Greenpeace Must Pay Over $660 Million in Dakota Access Pipeline Case www.commondreams.org/news/greenpe...
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🚨 ‼️ ACTION ITEM 2/2! 📣
2nd. 🥈
—-> A sponsoring benefactor has promised to put $100 on the books of any of the listed inmates for every $100 raised here, every hour, in support of Annie Jumps fellow inmates who she has tirelessly advocated for since her arrest.
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—-> A sponsoring benefactor has promised to put $100 on the books of any of the listed inmates for every $100 raised here, every hour, in support of Annie Jumps fellow inmates who she has tirelessly advocated for since her arrest.
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🔔 SoCal Advocates will be sending 🏃 🏃♀️ runners down to IRC to put money on these people’s books tomorrow morning. Right now, we only have $100 to split three ways with the (3) new names.
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You can add to this pool!
Please do!
V: @WeKeepUsSafeCA
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You can add to this pool!
Please do!
V: @WeKeepUsSafeCA
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🔔 ‼️ Our SoCal Advocates 🏃 🏃♀️ dropped off $50 in each persons account. There is a limit of (3) people you’re allowed to put money on each visit. 🙄
Our runners report that they “Hey mister’d” someone outside who was there to put money on the books of someone they love who helped us with our fourth 💜
Our runners report that they “Hey mister’d” someone outside who was there to put money on the books of someone they love who helped us with our fourth 💜
March 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨 ‼️ ACTION ITEM 2/2! 📣
2nd. 🥈
—-> A sponsoring benefactor has promised to put $100 on the books of any of the listed inmates for every $100 raised here, every hour, in support of Annie Jumps fellow inmates who she has tirelessly advocated for since her arrest.
bsky.app/profile/prid...
2nd. 🥈
—-> A sponsoring benefactor has promised to put $100 on the books of any of the listed inmates for every $100 raised here, every hour, in support of Annie Jumps fellow inmates who she has tirelessly advocated for since her arrest.
bsky.app/profile/prid...
Time to abolish insurance companies. Join the Health Care Revolution @hc4us.bsky.social hc4us.org
ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need.
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
February 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Time to abolish insurance companies. Join the Health Care Revolution @hc4us.bsky.social hc4us.org
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Hooooo LAWD. Just when I thought I was so f'in done with campaigns, here comes @butchware.bsky.social I challenge you to watch this interview and NOT donate to butchware4gov.com I just gave till it hurts and folks know I was done donating to campaigns after our last primary
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Democrats Are NEVER Coming Back After Genocide Support (w/ Butch Ware)
YouTube video by Bad Faith
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February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Hooooo LAWD. Just when I thought I was so f'in done with campaigns, here comes @butchware.bsky.social I challenge you to watch this interview and NOT donate to butchware4gov.com I just gave till it hurts and folks know I was done donating to campaigns after our last primary
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Tune in tomorrow morning 02/14/25 at 7:30am PST to hear what CA gubernatorial candidate @butchware.bsky.social has to say about healthcare and it being a RIGHT! CA has found its Single Payer Healthcare candidate. @kpfk.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tune in tomorrow morning 02/14/25 at 7:30am PST to hear what CA gubernatorial candidate @butchware.bsky.social has to say about healthcare and it being a RIGHT! CA has found its Single Payer Healthcare candidate. @kpfk.bsky.social
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Last year PNHP had the opportunity with CalCare AB2200 to take a big step to make national single-payer real, they backed away to give room to insurance friendly incrementalism they now say doesn’t work (SB770).
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‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors
Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say
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January 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Last year PNHP had the opportunity with CalCare AB2200 to take a big step to make national single-payer real, they backed away to give room to insurance friendly incrementalism they now say doesn’t work (SB770).
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Let's face it, Friday is THE best day of th week and they just got a whole lot better. Tune in tomorrow morning and every Friday morning moving forward on KPFK 90.7 FM or KPFK.org We are going to be talking about how community keeps us safe, healthy and well. Jump up early and give a listen! 7am.
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Let's face it, Friday is THE best day of th week and they just got a whole lot better. Tune in tomorrow morning and every Friday morning moving forward on KPFK 90.7 FM or KPFK.org We are going to be talking about how community keeps us safe, healthy and well. Jump up early and give a listen! 7am.
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“Last spring, after Mejia called the deductions to public services ‘short-sighted,” Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl dismissed the remarks as “theatrical exaggeration and doomsday projections.’” My pal Ricci @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social is in here too! The more we know!
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LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning.
“Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.
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January 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“Last spring, after Mejia called the deductions to public services ‘short-sighted,” Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl dismissed the remarks as “theatrical exaggeration and doomsday projections.’” My pal Ricci @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social is in here too! The more we know!
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Another day another reason why we need to ditch America’s “health” insurance profiteering scheme for a #SinglePayerHealthCare system #CalCare #MedicareForAll @hc4us.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment
Actor says he’s selling memorabilia to help cover ‘expensive’ treatment costs for recent colorectal cancer diagnosis
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December 2, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Another day another reason why we need to ditch America’s “health” insurance profiteering scheme for a #SinglePayerHealthCare system #CalCare #MedicareForAll @hc4us.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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Got a nice write about Dec 15! Thanks @hc4us.bsky.social ! Join us! Tix at ronplacone.com ! @sarakaygodot.bsky.social @andrewsaxena.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Got a nice write about Dec 15! Thanks @hc4us.bsky.social ! Join us! Tix at ronplacone.com ! @sarakaygodot.bsky.social @andrewsaxena.bsky.social