(2021-08-29). Saturday 9/25: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Origins of Wealth. indybay.org
(2021-08-28). [Perspectives] Ana Mocumbi: cardiologist tracking NCDs of poverty. thelancet.com When Ana Mocumbi graduated with an MD from Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1992, she could not train in cardiology, her specialty of choice. At the time, it was compulsory for medical graduates in the country to take up a rural post to address the scarcity of doctors and to pay back their years of initial training to the state. Mocumbi went to the Sofala province, which was badly affected by Mozambique's civil war, and worked as a general practitioner in its capital, Beira.
(2021-08-28). Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence. popularresistance.org When you look at a student like myself, you don't know that I am working multiple jobs, that I have gone without health insurance at some points, that I've been living at home with my parents for more than a year. You also do not know about my family's medical debt, or about my father's periods of unemployment, or that my mother's job as a preschool aide isn't enough to cover the gaps. | Even though I have mowed my former mailman's lawn for eight summers to help afford school, even though I secured two "free" years of campus housing through my job as a resident assistant and received numerous scholarships, awards…
(2021-08-28). Imperialism then and now: Wealth, unemployment and insufficient demand. peoplesdispatch.org Prabhat Patnaik reviews the connections between imperialism and capitalism through history to stress that by necessity of the accumulation of wealth, somewhere demand has to be suppressed to provide cheap inputs to 'the markets'. That colonialist relation is retained to the present, with changing subjects.
(2021-08-28). News on China | No. 65. dissidentvoice.org China begins reforms to more equitably redistribute wealth, as it promotes a "common prosperity": the sharing of cultural and material wealth in society.