The medicare for all banner-like mural stood out to me the most in Armando Perez's presentation on Brenda Barrios, a Chicana artist, and student at UCLA. Armando Perez highlighted how this art piece ended up floating around in London! This banner-like mural literally promoted Medicare for all in her community. Apparently, the individual in the mural is her mother and she is representative of the workers and marginalized people in not only her community but everywhere else around the world. This banner-like mural has been displayed outside of hospitals and architectural buildings in Los Angeles and outside of it as well. The Latino community has been sown to be disenfranchised and underinvested in which is what Brenda Barrios tries to call action upon by displaying art that directly speaks to the issues that people of color and low-income communities are facing. These communities typically do not have equitable access to health care or GOOD health care. For this reason, Brenda Barrios seems to spread awareness while simultaneously calling for action in these dominant issues that continue to perpetuate and affect these communities. By doing so, she also hits many intersections that people in London could even relate to. This was shocking information to learn about because I do not know the politics in Europe so I was never aware of them relating to this issue about health care. I was always under the impression that European health care far exceeded the unequal distribution of the health care that is seen in the United States. However, if people in London were using Brenda Barrios' artwork that called on Medicare for all, it must mean that Medicare for all does not exist in London? This especially became popular with the emergence of COVID and vaccines, and if London does not have inequitable access to health care like the United States, then this may just be a way to spread awareness about the vaccine.
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