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  • Dr. Margaret Flowers: A Real American Hero

    from on Oct 18, 2017 03:21 AM
    Dear Fellow Organizers & Activists, Please learn more about Dr. Margaret Flowers & please share widely with others.   This email is to introduce people to some of the work of Dr. Margaret Flowers, "A Real American Hero"- This is a 5 minute video of Margaret Flowers on the Jimmy Dore Show when they had the betrayal banner in front of the DNC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnmwsZ8m1M- This video is less than 4 minutes & shows Margaret apart of an amazing direct action to raise awareness of the TPP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdWjHRwy58M&feature=youtu.be- This is a article that Margaret did for WILPF's Ban Treaty:  https://popularresistance.org/more-than-40-nations-sign-nuclear-ban-treaty-in-first-hour/- This is Margaret's Slide Show that she just presented Monday about Health Care: http://healthoverprofit.org/incrementalism-ppt/- Attached is another slide show of a doctor that Margaret organizes with at PNHP.  It is very quick to go through & is a terrific resource to understand why National Improved Medicare for All (HR 676) is the why forward for Health Care.  Dr. Flowers featured Dr. Zarr on the Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE) calls which you can register for by clicking here - Here is the accompanying YouTube Video of the Slide Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okS7tTrDkiU- Two Videos in the Article:  This is an article from August which features two fantastic videos of Margaret.  Please take the time to check these excellent videos out.  The short one explains the shenanigans & missed opportunity in the Senate when the Republicans put HR676 up for a vote in the Senate.  The second video is Margaret on CSPAN going against the Power Structure in the form of the Cato Institute talking head: https://popularresistance.org/controlled-opposition-popular-power/Here is a blurp about Margaret on the Physicians for a National Health Care Program: Dr. Flowers is a Maryland pediatrician with experience as a hospitalist at a rural hospital and in private practice. She is currently working on single-payer health care reform full-time. In addition to her activity as co-chair of the Maryland chapter and national board advisor for PNHP, Dr. Flowers is on the board of Healthcare-Now! and on the steering committee of the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care. Dr. Flowers obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and did her residency at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.Note: Popular Resistance is a daily news site & is a real functioning hub for the movement.  In addition, Margaret is a part of the Clearing the Fog Radio Show: http://www.clearingthefogradio.org/ Additional Active Campaigns that Margaret does are the following: 1) Flush the TPP: http://www.flushthetpp.org/2) This is art for activists called Creative Resistance:  http://www.creativeresistance.org/3) The speed to which this next campaign can mobilize is amazing: http://protectourinternet.org/4) This is the rolling rebellion page: http://www.rollingrebellion.org/5) It's My Economy: http://itsoureconomy.us/6) Clean up the Mines: http://www.cleanupthemines.org/7) We are Cover Point: http://www.wearecovepoint.org/Also, here are the 15 core issues of Popular Resistance: https://popularresistance.org/issues/Dr. Flowers is AMAZING! #FlowerPower Dr. Margaret Flowers is a force of nature who if the world was right side up would be a modern American Hero!  Here is Margaret's direct action while running for Senator of Maryland when she took the stage at the debate & was arrested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix98YXLWUJg&t=5s Margaret along with Ajamu Baraka, Kevin Zeese, former chair of the Green Party Andrea Mérida Cuéllar & many other prominent Greens are a part of this party initiative called Building Green Power: http://greenpartypower.com/building-green-party-power-for-2018-and-beyond/(At the bottom of the page you can read some of the people who are with her) If you feel exhausted hearing about Margaret, I understand.  It is amazing that someone can do as much as her.  It is worth saying again, she is AMAZING!!! Lastly & maybe most enjoyably, here is Margaret performing Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" on guitar & vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXI6rMHsuk Thank you for all that you each have done & continue to do in the struggle against the billionaires, bankers & big corporations to make the world a better place.  In solidarity & in service with lending my energy to the building of a people centered sustainable society,Michael"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war"- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.