@ConMijente has been doing the important work of organizing the Latinx community in GA to vote and engage in issues that lead to more justice and more equity.
Ahead of the runoffs, they have plans to knock the doors of *every* Latinx voter or family.
But that's not all.
@ConMijente has partnered w/ @BeAHeroTeam to invest in Spanish digital and radio ads across GA. The ads they’ve produced feature health care stories from Latinx Georgians and encourage voters to support Dems in the runoffs.
I am very late to this #MedicareForAll floor vote debate, but since it is still raging, I’ll join the fray by telling you a little story.
In 2019, after I testified at the first ever #MedicareForAll hearing, I got back to Santa Barbara and realized that my own Democratic congressman was not a cosponsor of the bill! So I did some organizing.
We pulled together a ragtag coalition of some old timer health care activists, the local DSA chapter, some college students, a women’s political club, and a local elected official. We met in my living room three times to scheme.
Some reflections. Glad to be corrected by those who know more, or challenged by anyone.
These uprisings are good. And the police reactions are unveiling a deep reality.
The conflict is shifting political consciousness across the country.
And that is profoundly important.
The left is being radicalized. During first wave of #BlackLivesMatter protests & organizing (Trayvon through summer 2016), the demands were for accountability and police reform. Centrists were calling for body cameras. But even the movement was calling for modest changes.
Meanwhile, some movement strategists were developing deeper critiques and demands. Marbre Stahly Butts and others developed a framework of "invest/divest" to shift money away from police into education/health/health.
I won't get into the science, but the point is the Oxford group has a vaccine candidate that they already know is safe on humans AND works on monkeys.
Like, they gave 6 monkeys the vaccine, then exposed the monkeys to a ton of coronavirus, and 0 out of 6 developed COVID!
And, because already have good safety data in humans, they can move into large-scale human studies right now.
And if it works in humans, it's a HUGE deal, right? It's what we need to get out of this massive global depression, and it would save literally millions of lives.
I clerked for federal judge Shira Scheindlin in 2011-2012. I read hundreds of pages of evidence about the impact & (in)efficacy of stop-and-frisk. I delved deep into the legal arguments that NYC & the plaintiffs were making.
We just had a baby, so I haven’t been able to write a full piece about this. But here is what I like the most about @ewarren’s #MedicareForAll transition plan: she’s aiming to accomplish as much as possible as quick as possible.
And to use that success to win the full enchilada.
She’s laid out in full details her answers to the following three questions:
What can the president do with executive action?
What can be accomplished with 51 votes in the Senate?
What can be accomplished with 60 votes, or the abolition of the filibuster?
As advocates, our job is to make the case for abolishing private health insurance & replacing it with single-payer. But that will probably require more political power than we’ll have in January, and it’s a good exercise to think about what is possible in a best case scenario.