There is a strong need for additional checks on the capital-driven policy decisions made on the domestic front. Many of our inherent lacks (healthcare, financial deficits, military complex escalation) have gone without rational responses from leadership for a long period of time. In addition, media outlets are finance - not objective data - driven and measure success based on audience size, not inherent "newsworthiness."
As such, there is a huge potential for organizers to come together and create points of access for ongoing dialogue. It just came as a reminder that this practice is largely different from activism or mobilization. Both of these include activities that are either unorganized for an end-goal or "wind-down" once a particular policy point has been reached.
We have seen in recent Executive decision-making that those programs which have become a traditional component of our society - Social Security - may not always be free of "market forces." This is also played out in the current conversation concerning the Medicare program (flawed because at the time of it's creation most seniors died before age 70). Once health advocates have reached the goal of a basic government-funded plan there is a need for an ongoing community to ensure the benefits are not scaled back. This has been true of other successful campaigns including suffrage, child labor and ending racial discrimination.
The spaces for conversation must be; deliberate, open, lacking egoism,
time managed and set to achieve measurable goals.
