Last December, Doctor on Demand raised $3 million in seed funding from Venrock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Shasta Ventures and Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush.
In writing about what I and so many other white people have gained from the anti-racist struggle, my goal is not to draw attention from the demands raised primarily by students of color for major institutional overhauls; clearly, they need and deserve a better education than they are getting.
Still, Indian's demands raise several questions.
About 10,000 firefighters and police officers crowded into Times Square yesterday to demand larger raises from the Bloomberg administration, which they said had forgotten the sacrifices they made rushing to fires, cutting crime and responding to the horrors of Sept. 11.
But it would have been better than the slashing and burning the Republicans have been demanding because it would have raised from $700 billion to $1 trillion in additional revenue beginning in 2013 by ending tax breaks and deductions for corporations and the rich, or by ending the Bush tax cuts for families making $250,000 or more.
Some cast mates discovered this year that they could earn tens of thousands of dollars through club appearances and other outside activities, and there were reports that they were holding up production while demanding big raises from MTV.
Fight for 15 is the name of the movement that has asked fast-food workers to walk off the job for one day to demand that the minimum wage be raised from $7.25 per hour to a so-called living wage of $15 per hour.
"If he was, he would have demanded a huge dividend from the money we raised from asset sales.
You can and should push, set necessary boundaries, encourage, demand, even raise your voice from time to time.
I picture my shimmering holographic image, sitting across from editors in chief, pitching stories and demanding raises.
