58. health justice round table ft. tim faust

Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person

SEE TIM IN PORTLAND! Thursday(9/26) at 7:30 at Powells downtown. - Tim Faust(@crulge) returns to the show to do a properly roundtable discussion with local Portland healthcare activists and disability advocates to talk about his new book, Garrett & I are joined by Adam from the Portland DSA Medicare-for-All campaign, Betsy from Portland Jobs with Justice, and Nico from Real Choice Initiative here with Tim on the line. Topics we cover: the need for health justice beyond just healthcare, the need for disability and trans rights as part of any actual Single-Payer plan, problems with thinking of healthcare only in marketing terms, nursing homes acting like prisons, the successful efforts of Reclaim Idaho and the Maine People's Alliance. Tim's book: https://healthjusticenow.com/ _Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next_ Available here at Powells, and support their union ILWU Local 5: https://www.powells.com/book/-9781612197166/?partnerID=35751 Check out Tim's booktour: He'll be in Seattle on Wednesday(9/25) https://twitter.com/crulge/status/1171989316761006080 --- If you're in Portland, come for the protest on Friday(9/24) at Senator Ron Wyden's office to call for Medicare For All: https://actionnetwork.org/events/picket-of-senator-wydens-health-care-of-the-future-event https://www.facebook.com/events/391221361560951/ --- Recs: --- R. Stevie Moore - https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com/ Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw Dogbreth - "When You Call My Name" Tommy Douglas - the "Mouseland" speech Mark Hill - The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Octavia's Brood Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out Adolph Reed - "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism" - https://libcom.org/files/Marx,%20Race%20and%20Neoliberalism%20-%20Adolph%20Reed.pdf Break: Kate Bush - "Cloudbursting" Ending: Tommy Douglas' "Mouseland" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwySCMovHk National Nurses United's M4A campaigns - https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all The National Single Payer Strategy 2019 Conference in Portland, Oct 18-29: https://www.healthcare-now.org/strategy-conference/2019-portland/ Real Choice Initiative - http://realchoiceoregon.com/ Join DSA - https://www.dsausa.org/ Our episode with Max Elbaum: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/56-max-elbaum-and-lessons-learned-from-the-new-communist-movement-and-the-sds --- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [e-mail] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.