On May 16th, 1996, Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania signed a series of welfare reforms into law, including cuts to medical assistance, a requirement that childless people between ages 21 and 58 work 100 hours a month to receive medical assistance benefits, and a condition that anyone making more than $5100 a year did not qualify for medical assistance. When implemented, this legislation would cut 250,000 people off of medical assistance.

On this day that year, in response to this, Philadelphians living in poverty and homelessness organized through the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), began a 140-mile march from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, the capitol of Pennsylvania. On August 31st, they arrived and camped on the front lawn of the Pennsylvania Capitol building, holding a rally there the next day.

In late September, a federal judge ordered the protesters to leave, however they defied the order, staying until they were forcibly removed by the police on October 3rd. Although the activists were able to speak with Governor Ridge, they were not successful in reversing the welfare reforms. The KWRU continued to organize protests, holding that economic rights and the right to housing, education, food, and a living wage are human rights.

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So redoing the cross number puzzle because I messed up yesterday when submitting it.

Cross number puzzle

Across

  1. Square of a prime number

  2. Half the highest common factor of 10 Down and 11 Down

  3. Cube of a square

  4. Square root of 1 Across

  5. A symmetrical square (same left to right as right to left)

  6. Larger by 1 than 9 Down

  7. Five times as large as 8 Across

  8. Square of a number larger by 1 than 13 Across

Down

  1. Smaller by 8 than the smallest integer which, when divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 has remainders 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

  2. Number whose digit sum is 29

  3. Prime number

4 Prime factor of 11 Down

  1. Quadrupled product of one-tenth 15 Across and 13 Across

  2. Twice 4 Down

  3. 11 Down reversed

  4. Square root of 10 Across

  5. Multiple of the highest prime factor of 13 Across

So I double checked it and this time it should work so have fun :soviet-heart: and dm @Wmill the answer.

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    • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      Thankfully the baby came out ok but is being kept in NICU as a precaution, and my SIL is only on 50% ventilation so I guess the doctor's are hopeful she can come off it soon?

      I hope your gay wrath can somehow be used make people get vaccinated. My straight wrath has apparently failed :(

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Thank god the baby is okay at least, and i'm glad your SIL is not at max ventilation.

        I hope so too comrade. I saw a tiktok of "the sound of covid" from an ICU nurse and it was just 3 min of 30 patients vital signs beeping and some descriptions of what happens to your body in the covid ICU unit and i started crying. I can't imagine what our healthcare workers are going through right now for one. And for the actual patients... I've thought more than once that the critical care ICU for covid would feel like medical torture if the patients weren't as heavily sedated as they are. It seems awful and i would't wish that kind of prolonged suffering into death for anyone. Especially to all the healthcare workers who have died fighting for their patients lives.

        I bullied everyone i personally know into getting vaxxed, so that's something at least. Fuck.

        • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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          3 years ago

          I watched some videos of covid from a patients perspective and read nurses accounts of working in an icu. Not something I would recommend for anyone who know someone in that spot but it definitely brings things into sharp focus. I have a few friends who do that work and I can see it slowly taking its toll. Which is wild because the need for m4a and Healthcare reform is so obvious but the working conditions for Healthcare providers seems to be just assumed as part of the job for so many people.

          Fortunately she got off the vent today so while she's still not out of it, I'm gonna take it as positive. Thank you so much for the emotional support comrade.