Hundreds of activists from around the country convened for an online week of inspiration and strategy to win Medicare for All! The 2022 M4A conference featured more than 20 plenary panels, 40 live workshops, and 80 speakers.
Our fight to win Medicare for All cannot be fought solely on legislative terrain. We will need the passage of legislation to get us over the finish line, but we must also have a head on fight with the economic and political forces amassed against us. Medicare for All would take an entire fifth of our economy away from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and give it back to everyday people in the form of universal health care. Abolition was the last time a social movement so radically transformed the US economy. In other parts of the world there have been more recent successful struggles for the protection or restoration of public goods. This panel examines six case studies, from across the globe, of social movements taking on various forms of injustice and privatization. From Chile to Ireland, from Bolivia to South Africa, from Britain to Canada, these struggles have valuable lessons for us now that we can use in our fight for healthcare justice.
Zenei Cortez is a registered nurse and co-president of National Nurses United, the largest U.S. union and professional association of registered nurses.
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 170,000 members nationwide. Since its inception, NNU been at the forefront of the fight for Medicare for All. NNU's largest state affiliate... Read More →