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Takeover: How Street Gang 'The Young Lords' Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Op-Docs

2021-10-14T00:40:55.935Z

On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as “the Butcher Shop.” A group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community.

Originally a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords turned to community activism, inspired by the Black Panthers and by student movements in Puerto Rico. A Young Lords chapter in New York soon formed, agitating for community control of institutions and land, as well as self-determination for Puerto Rico. Their tactics included direct action and occupations that highlighted institutional failures.

Through archival footage, re-enactments and contemporary interviews, Emma Francis-Snyder's "Takeover" shines a light on the Young Lords’ resistance movement and their fight for human rights. The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital led to one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide.

Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Op-Docs

2021-10-13T18:46:05.769Z

Fuel on the Fire: Author Greg Muttit on Oil & Politics in Occupied Iraq, Arab Spring

2012-07-18T22:42:33.265Z

DemocracyNow.org - A new U.S. government report has found that much of the U.S. taxpayer money used for Iraq's reconstruction has likely been squandered. In what has been called their final audit report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Funds pinpointed a number of accounting weaknesses that put "billions of American taxpayer dollars at risk of waste and misappropriation" in the largest reconstruction project of its kind in U.S. history. The report concluded the precise amount lost to fraud and waste can never be known. While much of Iraq is still struggling to recover from the 2003 invasion and occupation, the country's oil sector is quickly expanding with the help of foreign investors including Exxon Mobil and BP. We're joined by Greg Muttitt, whose new book, "Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq," takes a close look at how energy interests played a crucial role in the U.S. invasion. "The reason they created a disaster was because there were constantly U.S. interests behind it," Muttitt says.

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Published on Jul 16, 2012 by democracynow

Keep Wall Street Occupied

2011-10-31T22:27:28.696Z

A fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds is sitting in your mailbox right now. You just don't know it yet.