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b'In these pandemic times, and times of racial justice uprising and reckoning, the failure of U.S. and global health care systems to meet human need or to even ensure the basic safety of health care providers continues to be revealed. How did we get here? \\n\\nIn this episode, CIIS Faculty and multi-sector social justice organizer Mordecai Ettinger offers an exploration of the hidden history of white supremacy and colonization embedded in the Medical Industrial Complex(MIC)\\u2014a web of institutions\\u2014from hospitals, dialysis centers, and nursing homes, to health insurers, big pharma, and the corporate polluters that they are entangled with.\\n\\nMordecai addresses the myriad ways in which the MIC generates, perpetuates, and upholds ableism\\u2014particularly racialized medical ableism\\u2014as among the most dangerously violent and destructive forces of our times. Finally, Mordecai offers a vision for hope, a path forward for transforming the MIC and creating alternatives for health and healing, a crucial part of humanity\\u2019s collective liberation in which we all have a role to play. \\n\\nVisit ciispod.com for the transcript of this episode as well as additional resources. This episode was recorded during a live online event on September 30, 2020.'