Name: Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi
Start: 2025-07-04T10:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T11:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

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With the new administration, the federal government has been actively attacking healthcare funding for the poor and intensified its targeting of trans and disabled people and the immiseration of healthcare workers. Join us for a discussion of what the fight for health communism may look like under this new regime, and what strategies and forms of politics may help us move forward. With Death Panel co-hosts and co-authors of Health Communism Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, joined by writer and organizer Vicky Osterweil.

Speakers

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.

Artie Vierkant

Artie Vierkant is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host, as well as the editor and producer, of the Death Panel podcast.

Vicky Osterweil

Vicky is a writer, worker and editor based in so-called Philadelphia. She is a founding member of CAW, a worker-owned collective journal of autonomy, arts and culture, as well as the author of In Defense of Looting (2020), and The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and... Read More →

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