| [As our outsized military budget continues to devour vast resources now desperately needed for healthcare and other human services (as well as fixing the infrastructure, creating green jobs and other sustainability projects), all those striving on behalf of these social needs should join in a common effort with opponents of imperialist wars and a corporate empire based on the wasteful consumption of dwindling planetary resources. Please come and particpate in the beginning of a broad public discussion about how to do this!--DLW] HEALTHCARE, NOT WARFARE! Putting Single Payer Healthcare Back on the Table: How Can Antiwar and Single-Payer Advocates Cooperate? Tuesday, July 14th 7:30 - 9pm Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin, Room 202 A Panel Discussion with Art Taggart - Coalition for Wisconsin Health Diane Turner - WORT Healthwriters Tim Wong - retired health policy analyst with the State of Wisconsin Sponsored by the Madison Area Peace Coalition Healthcare reform is finally moving at the national level, but Americans are angry that single payer health care is off the table. In this period of unemployment and foreclosures, sixty percent of personal bankruptcies are due to medical problems. Businesses are failing because of health care costs. Most Americans are concerned about their personal situation in this healthcare crisis. Nevertheless, getting to national healthcare will require intense grassroots activism. Anti-war and peace groups are eager to help in this struggle. Currently however, Americans perceive their self-interest in reforming healthcare but not in ending the wars, which do not appear to affect them personally. This event will draw the connections between the healthcare debate and the anti-war struggle. While we are sold the war on the basis of security, real security is more closely linked to our concern for our health and families, which healthcare provides. The bloated military budget could be re-allocated to pay for the costs of national healthcare. While we are told the Medicare Trust Fund is going broke, no trust fund limits seem to inhibit the US war-making. Those of us working to stop wars and militarism want to connect our message and our struggle with the struggle for universal healthcare in the U.S. www.madpeace.org More information: 242-9232 |
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