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Partners

Organizing for a Better World

The struggle for healthcare and a dignified existence for all requires strong social relationships.

The following groups and resources provide vital support not only for Howard but for working class families, military personnel, veterans, vulnerable individuals and communities — endeavors for which they have earned our utmost respect.

Partner Organizations

The Civilian Medical Resources Network responds to requests by active duty military personnel for medical and mental health services in the civilian sector.

The Latin American Association of Social Medicine is a network of physicians and educators dedicated to representing the interests of the people and public health.

The Allende Program in Social Medicine/ El Programa Allende en Medicina Social encourages activism, progressive research, and strategic analysis concerning contemporary heath problems.

The GI Rights Hotline provides accurate, helpful counseling and information on military discharges, AWOL and UA, and GI Rights:

Horizontal Stateline is a collective of like-minded organizers and activists located on the stateline region between Beloit, Wisconsin and Rockford, Illinois.

Monthly Review is an independent socialist magazine that covers a wide variety of topics.

The Soldiers Project aims to provide a safety net of psychological services for military service members and their loved ones, and to educate the general public on how the psychological consequences of war affect both those who serve and their loved

The Military Law Task Force assists those working on military law issues as well as military law counselors working directly with GIs.

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.

The Social Medicine Portal is a project developed by faculty members of the Department of Family and Social Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee supports individuals who refuse to pay for war, and promotes war tax resistance in the context of a broad range of nonviolent strategies for social change.

The Marxist Sociology Blog is a production of the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. It publishes short articles of theory, research and commentary from Marxists of all theoretical schools and academic disciplines.

Since 1958, The National Land Institute has protected, managed, and restored more than 17,300 acres throughout Illinois and southern Wisconsin. These include prairies, forests, wetlands, and river corridors. Serving as a regional land trust, the In

Honored Ones

Mira Lee

Mira has been a long time activist, physician, healer, friend and companion in the border-less struggle for equitable and affordable healthcare. She is an expert when it comes to South Korea's single-payer healthcare system and she has been one of my biggest supporters in the past years.

forest — Forest Smith

Forest is an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation operating down at the US/Mexico border on unceded Kumeyaay land. His efforts have been useful in marketing and publicizing Health Care Under the Knife and Rinky-Dink Revolution, as well as in designing the website.