The Fierce Urgency of Now: Health Care and Human Rights for All

Why has the debate over health care reform involved partisan politicians, media pundits, corporate interests, and hired agitators rather than the people? Why has the single payer option been demonized on the right, the media, and even the liberal establishment? How does the broader crisis in health care in this country–clinic closings, epidemics of disease related to inequality and inaccessibility to care, indifference to wellness in our schools, our public services, the military–relate to the unwillingness to address growing economic gaps in our society and the abdication of public authority for the sake of private concerns? How can the United States learn from other communities about how to deliver care, promote wellness, and affirm the public interest, in order to achieve human rights, here and around the world?

Saturday, September 19 2-5PM
Access Living, 115 W Chicago

Dialogue with:

Vijay Prashad
Acitivist, Scholar, author of “Darker Nations:A people’s history of the Third World”

Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle
Organizer with STOP, representing the campaign against mental health clinic closings

Dr. Linda Murray
Leading public health advocate, Medical Director, Woodlawn Adult Health Center

Yalda Afshar
Public health advocate and practicioner

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