6.02 public health organizing and movements

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"In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doctors - calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women's liberation began at that moment."

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The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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We must grow towards a movement that focuses not only on abortion rights but on a whole range of women's health and justice issues.

Summary:Programs run by Native American and Alaska Native women are vital in ensuring the protection and long-term support of Indigenous women who have experienced sexual violence.

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The current biodefense expansion has the potential to seriously threaten public safety, international security, and the vitality of open biomedical research, and to drain scarce resources from key public health programs.

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We have demanded too little from our leaders, excused far too much.

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In 1970, 38% of American Indians/Alaskan Natives lived in cities. In 2000: 61%. Bush's response: zero out the budget for the Urban Indian Health Program.