Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978

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HEALTH RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS This page intentionally left blank Health Rights Are Civil Rights • • • • Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Portions of chapters 2 and 7 were previously published as “Where Is Community Health? Racism, the Clinic, and the Biopolitical State,” in Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care, ed. Cindy Patton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 39–68. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27, no. 3 (2009): 403–24; reprinted by permission of Pion, Ltd., London, www.pion.co.uk and www.envplan.com. Portions of chapters 4 and 8 were previously published as “‘Peace Is Our Only Shelter’: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege,” Antipode 43, no. 3 (2010): 845–73. A different version of the Epilogue was published as “The Fire Next Time: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, and Law-and-Order Urbanism,” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 16, no. 4 (2012): 431–38; reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis, Ltd., www.tandfonline.com. Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401–2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Loyd, Jenna M. Health rights are civil rights : peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 / Jenna M. Loyd. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7650-7 (hc: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-7651-4 (pb :alk. paper) 1. Health care reform—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 2. Public health—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 3. Social movements—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 4. Social justice—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 5. Urban poor—Civil rights—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 6. Human rights—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 7. Social change—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 8. Cold War—Social aspects—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 9. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Social conditions-—20th century. 10. Los Angeles (Calif.)— Politics and government—20th century. I. Title. RA395.A3L69 2013 362.109794'94—dc23 2013028368 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of Sam Ragent, Clyde Woods, Neil Smith, and Dara Greenwald This page intentionally left blank Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. And the swiftly calculated move to a farther suburb, the male technocrats and the women they have picked and tested, leaving the familiar globe behind: the toxic rivers, the cancerous wells, the strangled valleys, the closed-down urban hospitals, the shattered schools, the atomic desert blooming, the lilac suckers run wild, the blue grape hyacinths spreading, the ailanthus and kudzu doing their final desperate part—the beauty that won’t travel, that can’t be stolen away. —ADRIENNE RICH, “NOTES TOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION” This page intentionally left blank ...