Upstream

[mat_defiler]

On the bus on the way to my job interview today I found myself scribbling comics about the public health concept of upstream. Just in case anyone doesn't know, the metaphor goes that you see someone floating down the river and pull them out to keep them from drowning, then you see another, and another. After pulling out a few, it occurs to you

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[katuah]

The problem of not being able to get past the fence is not confined to health care or community poverty or anything really. Its part of the reality of the global capitalist modern-feudal system. Never even getting near the fence can be damn wearing.

Some people out on the edges are doing their best to just walk away from the river entirely.

I haven't gotten there yet. I don't know where I am. Thanks for this, it is why I still have an LJ.