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Act Out! [159] - How To Build a Direct Democracy + The Colonial Death Motto of Our Healthcare System

Act Out! [159] - How To Build a Direct Democracy + The Colonial Death Motto of Our Healthcare System
Wed, 5/2/2018 - by Eleanor Goldfield
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com

A grotesque and yet not altogether surprising admission from our for-profit-healthcare system. Then, after hundreds of years of colonization, the Trump administration has a new idea on how to further oppress and torture indigenous peoples. Next, ALEC had their annual meeting last week – here's a look at the human rights they wanna slash. And finally, Laura Roth from Barcelona en Comu joins us to talk municipalism, the feminization of politics and a global network of local direct democracies.

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