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Peace Now? Not without national health care

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When I first read this list, I wondered why single payer was first, but it soon became clear:

How many people will make time, or have the courage, to advocate for peace, or any of these issues, while living in fear of debilitating, or terminal, illness without care?

I pointed this out to another friend of mine, San Diego peace activist Nona Yerbiz, who responded that, "Our entire political/economic structure is based on fear."

Indeed. Fear of cancer without care, fear of unemployment, fear of homelessness, fear of hunger, and, fear of disgrace, loss of family, loss of friendship, and loss of love, consequent to loss of everything else. Nobody loves you when you're down and out; few, if any, will feel that they can even afford to be near you, not in a U.S.A. where it's every man and woman for him or herself and his or her health insurance.

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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)
 

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