Month: April 2006

  • Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People

    Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People: Challenge Brought on Behalf of More than 6 Million Recipients Oakland, CA; April 26, 2006–A class action complaint was filed today in the U.S. Federal District Court, Northern District of California to force the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure […]

  • Too much school?

    Ana put footnotes in Mac’s April 10 Immigrant Rights March flyer. omg. Compare with Berkeley’s flyer. [Tags]Immigration, Agitprop, Humor[/Tags]

  • Sign-up sheet for POSTERING drive

    How to do it decide on at least 2 street segments you will be postering on suggested street segments are already posted at the sign-up sheet below, waiting for takers for postering purposes, a city (glendale, cerritos, northridge, torrance) counts as 1/2 street segment (see the K-Town markets excel sheet for markets outside K-Town.) We […]

  • Leavitt Lies: Medicare Part D Enrollment Numbers

    Leavitt says that Medicare Part D was a success because “Around 90 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have enrolled” (DHHS Press Release, 4/4/06) to Part D. This statement is repeated in his Three-Month Progress Report (PDF) “[Seniors] have enrolled” is not the exact phrasing I would use. “[Seniors] have been enrolled” is more accurate. Let’s take […]

  • alienated translator

    Consider this a front-line ethnographic report on translator-original text producer split of a phenomenon that also occurs in the programming front with i18n’s when you step down from the MTA bus, you can see at the exit a sign that reads Wait for green light, then step down and also right below it Espere por […]