58. health justice round table ft. tim faust - a podcast by Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person

SEE TIM IN PORTLAND! Thursday(9/26) at 7:30 at Powells downtown.
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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

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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/
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Recs:
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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
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