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While many public health experts attribute the lack of healthcare in Latin America to lack of resources, the Cuban Revolution shows that when resources are distributed equitably, health outcomes previously unimaginable are possible.

“Rent strikers and people at risk of losing their shelter are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.”

Mutual aid is not only about addressing the crisis at hand but also about undoing the injustices of colonialism and imperialism.

The upcoming Biden administration must take action to protect the air, water, land and health of rural communities overrun and bankrupted by factory farms. Joe Biden’s plan for rural America does not mention any kind of comprehensive farm reform.

Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.

The crowning achievement of this multiracial and cross-class health activism was codification of the right to health in the 1940 Constitution. “Good health care...revolutionary medicine is far more cost effective than corporate-controlled medicine."

A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten hard-hit minority communities, the nation’s largest association of doctors has passed a policy that recognizes racism as a public health threat.

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