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Tomorrow DMI's Andrea Batista Schlesinger will be on a panel discussing David Sirota's new book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington, and "rise of a new progressive politics in New York."

The book is, according to Sirota's website, "a firsthand narrative account inside America's new populist movement, from the streets of New York City to the halls of Microsoft to the deserts at the Mexican border."

In addition to author David Sirota, the panel will include State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Working Families Party's Dan Cantor, and Progressive States Network's Joel Barkin. The panel will be held Tuesday at The Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway) from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

For more on the book, check out this amusing clip of Sirota on the Colbert Report:

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A recent, alarming study conducted by The New York Post on Emergency Room overcrowding in New York City offers even more evidence that the path to true healthcare reform in our city and state hinges largely on our ability to bolster our primary care infrastructure.

“69 percent [of 425 NYC ER doctors polled] said they had personally experienced patient suffering or harm because there was no hospital beds available and the patient was held in the ER. Another 28 percent said a patient died as a result,” The Post revealed.

The Post further discovered that “City ERs were on diversion a total of 5,600 hours - a 77 percent increase over the same period last year.”

A huge factor explaining the jamming of Emergency rooms and the frequent re-routing of patients is that more than 80 percent of ER visits are for non-emergency conditions, according to the most recent data. Those patients with non-emergency illnesses are going to the ER because they cannot get access to needed care elsewhere.

And this overcrowding will likely only get worse. Following a period of stagnant population growth, a million additional people will flood New York City in the next two decades, ...   more »

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US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy is due to have surgery for a malignant brain tumour, his office says.

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A theme park at the world-famous Universal Studios in Los Angeles is expected to re-open after a fire on the site.

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A judge in Texas orders more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect to be returned to their parents.

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