Serendipity

At the beginning of the semester, when we were defining social justice, we said it includes basic human needs such as access to basic healthcare.  Recently, annulling the Affordable Care Act has been a huge topic in the news.  Why is it such a concern? Why is healthcare necessary?   Hopefully, the following article will help illustrate it for you: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/05/life-without-health-insurance-why-we-need-to-protect-the-most-vulnerable We will now watch this video to get an even more personal story; keep in mind that this is government created content: https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/jaime-s-story-life-without-health-insurance/ Extra article in case you are interested:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/health-care-is-a-right-no_b_11770518.html   So what is the Affordable Care Act?: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-care-act/ https://www...

Yesterday, while we were discussing the article and video about the man who kept an open garden in his community there was talk about his view of change. He said instead of marching and petitioning, you can simply start change in your own life and community instead.  To me both the grassroots movements as well as more top-down approaches to making change are good, but often, they work best in tandem. But I digress. What came to mind when were discussing is that people usually believe what they doing is best. It’s natural human tendency, and it’s difficult to expand your horizons. Thus this thought led to when we watched “A Place at the Table”, when the government officials increased funding for school lunches. They had this whole press conference with smiling children and cartoon pieces of food with faces, not realizing that they were barely making a change and only increasing the budget for a school lunch by a few cents.  I talked about this a bit in my last blog pos...