Update on ASARO Prints; Revolutionary Art of Oaxacca, Mexico
by Pat Brown

Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ, to exhibit ASARO prints.
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY PRINTS from the collection of Kutztown University will be on display at the PCCC Gallery in March and April.

Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer
by James Patrick

Mental breakdowns, physical illness, hate and quick scenes of romance go through all of Williams’ plays, and this one is no exception.

ED RENDELL’S HEALTHCARE HOAX
by Jerry Policoff

If Pennsylvania enacts single-payer universal healthcare other states will follow, and it will not be long before pressure to enact it nationally becomes overwhelming. Only then will we join the rest of the industrialized world in providing truly civilized healthcare for all. Can we, in good conscience, do any less?

The PA Health Care Reform Honor Roll
by Pat Brown
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If your candidates’ names are not on the list, contact them and let them know just how important this issue is to you!

Pandemic Preparedness and You
by Louise Grim

The better prepared you are, the greater the chances of survival for you and your family.

Who Supports PA Single-Payer?
by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz

An update on recent conversations with some PA legislators

Be A Single-Payer Reform Ambassador
by Ron Stouffer

I’ve asked Ron to prepare some “talking points” for the formation of our new army of single-payer ambassadors.

COLD: AN APPRECIATION
by Jace Miller
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Jace Miller’s memorable elegy for a casualty of the war.

SO MANY
by Jack Lindeman

Jack’s latest and his excellence continues.

Oceania
by Stephen Ownby

A young author sees 1984 in 2008 ….

Black Blood
by Vilvalex Calice

On the recent history of law enforcement in New York and the fear that follows.

A brief history of man
by Sean Lause

Sean Lause’s long view of war and its costs.

Why No One Should Own Antarctica
by Molly Saunders

Echoes of Klaatu’s wisdom in this work from another of our young poets.

CHIAPAS HARDWOOD
by Jace Miller

A spare and harrowing poem from Jace Miller. The treatment of men as one more exploitable resource.

An Air-Conditioned Mansion in Egypt
by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald

Class distinction hot and dry - thirty degrees of separation between the ins and the outs.

Swimming Down the Brickyard
by Jack Conway

Jack Conway’s vivid and evocative excursion into deep memory.

All About Target
by Brenda Koehler
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Some things never change. Although slave labor has been outlawed for over a century, the desire to maximize profits by cheating and abusing workers seems an eternal inclination.

Reform or The Pig Gets It!
by Chuck Brown
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Meet Dennis Baylor, candidate for State Senate in the 29th District. It’s a refreshing change to not have a candidate who insults your intelligence by appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Tantrum in Barcelona
by Jack Lindeman

As her rage mounted she began shouting that we were heading right back to the States this very day and without her voice subsiding for even a rational moment into a more subdued tone of moderation began picking up various items belonging to me and throwing them in my direction.