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POP (Public Option Please), our health care reform advocacy campaign, is announcing an arts contest. Inspired by artists behind the successful “Manifest Hope” project, the effort is designed to provide a vehicle for artists to help reframe the debate surrounding health care.
Whereas Congress is focused on bending cost curves and protecting insurance company profits, artists can express the moral case for health care as a human right. They can help to shape a vision of the future where 44,000 people don’t die each year in the United States for want of health care.
The panel of judges includes:
- Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post
- Jesse Dylan, director of the Emmy Award-winning video, YES WE CAN SONG, inspired by Barack Obama
- Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO
- Aaron Rose, film director, art show curator, musician and writer responsible for the Beautiful Losers art movement and world tour
- Marshall Ganz, renowned organizer and lead architect of the Obama campaign’s community organizing efforts
The contest will run from now until October 31. The judges will select a first, second and third prize and then the public will be able to vote for a people’s choice award. The first prize winner will receive $1000, 2nd prize will receive will receive $750, and third prize will receive $500. The public choice award will also receive $750. The works will be featured on posters, t-shirts and stickers and proceeds with go to POP4All, a non-profit organization that works for ongoing health care reform.
“Artists have a unique ability – by speaking to us in an honest, engaging, emotional language – to remind us of the human side of the healthcare issue,” said artist and film director, Jesse Dylan.
Contest entries can be uploaded on the POP website. The contest rules are available here.
The POP campaign was launched last week, inspired by the work of Marshall Ganz who has spoken extensively about the need to reclaim the health care debate and create an ongoing movement for health care as a human right.
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Good Morning, Jane
Did you have a chance to see Lisa Derrick’s thread, Now This Is Art?
http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/10/10/now-this-is-art/
Make sure you see both paintings.
We have skewed national priorities. If you are accused of a crime and too poor to hire a lawyer, you are provided one, at public expense. If you are too poor to hire a doctor, that is a big debate.
Um, respectfully disagree. If you are poor, you received services from an emergency room, which probably provides better medical care, than the legal services provided by public defenders (no offense to PDs, just a matter of resources).
Not that either is a good way.
Stunned silence, perchance?
The legal system is pretty dysfunctional. Talk about health care!
Two out of my 3 mafias of the intelligentsia. (The third is higher ed.)
Morning Jane, a bit off topic, but related to your post yesterday warning Reid that he needs to, well act like the Majority Leader.
Would it be possible to set up a fund, call it the “Act Like the Senate Majority Leader of Get Lost” fund, where we raise as much money as we can to support your post and pledge yesterday? And if Reid does do what he needs to do as referenced in your post then those funds can be used to support his re-election campaign, but if, as expected, he doesn’t, those funds would be used to support a primary challenge (unlikely) or maybe a public write-in candidate that progressives in Nevada should support as a protest.
This would meet your pledge to work against his re-election if he doesn’t meet your criteria wouldn’t it? And at the same time allow us “have your back” on those pledges yesterday??? I dunno, just spit ballen here, but I’d be down for 100 in that fund.
Sorry for the O/T.
EDIT: Oh, and once again, can’t say enough good things about that post yesterday Jane. Give ‘em hell! ! ! ! !
Marcy has a fresh cross-post up: “Christie Living Large on Our Dime”
very exciting! am already working on a few ideas
can not wait to see the entries
Great idea. Let me see what I can do.