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Are you an artist with an activist streak and belief that our broken health care system needs to be fixed now? Put your skills to work for health care reform with Public Option Please (POP) just-launched group’s visual arts contest and to promote public option as a vital part of health care reform.
The contest is designed to cut through the Washington Beltway “insider” clutter and provide a vehicle for artists to make the moral case for health care reform and take part in the debate currently raging in Congress. Apple Via, director of the POP contest, says
This is a chance for artists around the country to help express the human side of the equation. Now, instead of only hearing from the big insurance companies about protecting their profits, these artists will be making the moral case for health care as a human right. They can help shape a vision of a future where health care is available for all and nobody has to die to protect a corporate bottom line.
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker is among the judges. Joining Holt Baker are:
- Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.
- Jesse Dylan, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and artist.
- Marshall Ganz, a longtime organizer with the Farm Workers and lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- Aaron Rose, a film director, art show curator, musician and writer.
The first prize winner will receive $1,000, second prize is $750, third prize is $500.00 and the Public Choice Award winner will receive $750.00. The winning art works will be featured on posters, T-shirts and stickers. Entries must be submitted by Oct. 31. Click here for the contest rules and here for instructions on how to enter.
Says Dylan:
Artists have a unique ability—by speaking to us in an honest, engaging, emotional language—to remind us of the human side of the health care issue.
The POP campaign will work with musicians, actors, artists and social justice advocates to engage the public in a way that makes the public option part of a larger, longer civil rights battle for universal health care. Click here for more information.
Thanks to Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake for alerting us to the contest.
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I’m okay with insurance profits if they are generated in a way that promotes the public good. But health insurance tends to distort the market that as it was taught to us way back in high school. Too much incentive to slash costs at the expense of the client.
Frankly, much of the opposition to the public option strikes me as self-contradictory.
I believe an artist named Michael Moore already addressed this with his film sICKO. Why are we wasting time and money on a phony public option instead of forcefully pushing for single payer.
Sanders 2012. An Independent Socialist We Can Believe In.
I think an Anti Trust Lawsuit is in order, to adjust the insurers profits and bring on the moral judgment they are overlooking due unto their GREED. After cutting off the insurers lobbist, maybe the congressmen and senators will stand up for the American people they are suppose to be representing and pass the public option!
This sounds familiar - greedy corporations, big business and the wealthy trying to crush the worker in order to create even bigger profits. As Joe Hill said almost 100 years ago: ” Don’t mourn, organize!” We can’t match their wealth, but they can’t match our numbers.