Notes from Elizabeth Williamson and David Wolach on Econvergence and the PACE action. David's comments are in italics.
[ This is, in part, a riff on & follow-up to CAConrad & Frank Sherlock's PhillySound conversation, which covers a LOT of ground, but doesn't linger as much on the PACE Action itself ]
Getting there
It is ironic, as David often says, that the folks who most need health care are the ones least able to stand around in the cold at a protest. Even the short trip to Portland took a lot of David, physically and emotionally, due to a painful and unremitting neuromuscular condition.
Gosh, when you put it that way, it sounds horrible! Reflecting back on it, tho, some of the problems or social divisions Rob and others have identified, indeed in part what I think fuels Nonsite Collective and fueled much of EconVergence, seemed – and seem always – to course through this body: this body as metaphor of the neck-up conditionality of “thinking” thru issues of social and economic justice. The head feels lonely in transit, in action. Of divides or lines or separators between systems of identification—the conditions under which we form identifications, as if “this body” were not itself an enunciation that frames thru exclusion, sets a course.
