How has our country thought about and dealt with minorities, like folks with disabilities? How should we?
It's easy to forget what the "healthcare system" used to be like, and what drove it, as opposed to the current system in the USA driven primarily by profit.
Arthur Davenport currently hails from Hilo, Hawaii, where he found Northern Spirit Radio through the Friends Journal and tracked us down to share his rich, diverse, profound, and fun music, not to mention his Arthurisms!
A look at the ills of our healthcare coverage system, with special attention to the coverage gap resulting from opposition to the ACA/Affordable Care Act. Tom Rowley shares his song & video about The Healthcare Blues, and his passion for fixing the system, working in rural Missouri, near Cabool. And Jen Bersdale is Executive Director of Missouri Healthcare for All, a grassroots coalition that allows the voice of Missourians to rise above the powerful influence of well-paid industry lobbyists. Also, installment 5 of History & Our Best Future with Myron Buchholz.
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The Healthcare Blues - by Tom Rowley & Friends
Myron Buchholz worked as a history teacher for 34 years - why? What does this work accomplish?
Mike Plaisted lives out multiple passions, in part through his work as a lawyer performing a vital role in the lives of his clients, especially with folks in Drug Court, but also through his performing music, something that deeply feeds Mike. He's a member of the Milwaukee Musicians Co-op, and performs regularly on Riverwest Radio.
Dan Nerhaugen's Daily Progressive is a great source of inspiration & knowledge, highlighting change-makers and events which have tilted the world in a progressive direction, and promise more in the future. Succinct, rich, and diverse, there are tidbits, with links to those interested in going deeper, for some really transformative people and events.
Jamila Raqib is executive director of The Albert Einstein Institution, the brain-child of Gene Sharp, leading researcher in non-violent action & civilian-based defense. Jamila was a refugee from Afghanistan at age 4, with a keen and innate sense of the power of non-violence to preserve and obtain freedom and justice, at the least cost. The organization was founded in 1983 "to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression." Plus, the 2nd installment of Myron Buchholz, History & Our Best Future, asking, Is War Ever Good?
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People lose track of essential facts of history about war, and Myron Buchholz sets us straight!
Frances Moore Lappé is putting herself on the line as part of the April 2016 Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening. Her passionate writing & advocacy for democracy is a logical consequence of thought in Diet for a Small Planet and 17 more books, and it led to the founding of the Small Planet Institute with the motto, Living Democracy, Feeding Hope.
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