I want to talk about Give Love, Give Life a little bit here. We started maybe 2002. Give Love, Give Life started originally with a woman named Marcheline Bertrand, and she had ovarian cancer. So we started doing these, raising, doing these benefits to raise funds for ovarian cancer research through a woman named Dr. Beth Karlan at Cedars-Sinai Hospital who’s a specialist in this. So we did two or three of these as benefits, and in 2006 we came to this understanding. Not to minimize ovarian cancer research, this needs to be done, and for the litany of reasons that everyone that has ever had any contact with it understands, but the other part that we took into consideration is that even with advances happening with ovarian cancer research, if you’ve got women that don’t have access to healthcare then the research is not serving those people who are cut out.
And so we made the decision that we would focus on prioritizing national health care insurance for the women and children of America. And then, unfortunately Marsh passed over in January of 2007 and so it got kind of left in my hands. But I’m kind of erratic, you know. It just is, alright. But our idea is, we wanted to see if we could make prioritizing national health care insurance for the women and children of America a part of the national dialogue before the presidential election to take place. I mean just get them talking about it.
If we can do that. And part of this thing is, we look at what’s going on in the country today, you know, what I was saying earlier right, they’re all lying you know. I just know that they are, right. But when you look at all the things that truly affect the citizens of America, and all the lies and promises and stuff, nobody’s coming up with any coherent plan to address the needs. You know everybody just playing off of the divisions, all of that kind of behavior and activity is going on and there’s nothing coherent being discussed that meet the needs of all of the people.
But we know you can’t go after universal health care because if you put your focus on universal health care, that’s already demonized. The opposition has already lined up on that, so that’s too well entrenched and it becomes used further as a divisive tactic against the people. But with the women and children, see, because our whole attitude about this is let’s prioritize national health care insurance for the women and children of America. It isn’t about if somebody is a rightwing racist. I got no quarrel with them about this, this isn’t about that. If there are leftwing extremists this isn’t about that. This is about, do you agree that we should prioritize health care insurance for the women and children of America?
Something, I don’t think it’s really being done, but approaching through what we have in common alright and let our differences be, just we won’t speak our differences. Do we agree on this? This is what we’re after, is to go after it like this. So we’re not asking people to change their ways. We’re asking, do you agree that we should prioritize health care insurance for the women and children of America? Do you agree to that? Do you agree with that? And that’s what our approach is.
And it’s interesting, we have a website GiveLoveGiveLife.net and then a Myspace page. And it’s interesting if you visit the MySpace page, the diversity, see that’s what we’re looking at. So we know in theory we’re in the right area. That is something that can be dealt with. It’s just finding something that can’t be polar, can’t be demonized. People can disagree with this, but it can’t really be demonized, you know. And the other thing is, whatever role we play in whatever is going on, a culture that doesn’t look out for the women and children isn’t really a culture, alright, and this is something that maybe Americans better kind of figure out and start to make a decision about, just in general. Part of what we’re trying to see and find out is are there enough people that get this, that really agree with this, that will act, that will put some of their energy into it. You know, but we’re not asking for a lot of energy, we’re just asking for some energy. And it’s like, if you agree with this, will you talk to ten people about it? Ask them just to check our website out, GiveLoveGiveLife.net? Or our Myspace? Actually check both out, alright? But would you talk to ten people about doing this? And plus talking to ten people about doing this would you communicate what, I’m in Oregon right? Or Oz? Not in Kansas, right? In Portland. No really, but in Oregon alright somebody’s running for the Congress. Either they’re running for the House or they’re running for the Senate and then we’ve got the ones that are running for political office from the presidential thing. If you would communicate to them that you want them, not ask them, you want them to prioritize national health care insurance for the women and children of America. You want them to do it. If you would communicate that. If you would get ten people to communicate it. And then ask each one of those ten people to ask ten people to communicate it. I mean in serious realities even if a small percentage of the people would do this in a months period of time we can put some voice out there.
You know, and no sidetracking because of you know the issue is do you agree that the women and children of America should have health care insurance, that’s the issue. How it’s going to get done you know this, that, the other, all that, that’s not the issue. The issue is do we agree about that. See and I think because of the way the polls and the way they’re playing this manipulated election out, I think that there’s still enough time to generate enough energy to force them to start to talk about it. Because you know how suck up they get, they try to say, yeah but the only problem is, we’re depending on the polls to tell us what we’re concerned about. Then we’re depending on the politicians to tell us, make us promises about what they’ll do, but we’re not really saying anything to them! So I’m pushing heavy for this because I would really like to see it happen. You know, the next time you want to beat yourself up in your head go to the computer and get in touch with people’s aid and health insurance, we really need it.
But I’m just saying everything we ever do is about energy, so how much energy do we just put into stuff that we don’t need. So I’m just asking, put some time and a little bit of energy into doing this, because I know that we can create this. See I know that it can be done. It’s not an issue of whether we can do this or can’t, it’s an issue of whether we will or we won’t. That’s what it’s all about. I mean just like in our individual lives, this isn’t about whether can I do this or can I not do this in life, it’s about will I or won’t I. Appreciate our power. The power of being a human being. That power that we have. Learn to appreciate it and use it in a healthy way. ~