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Support a founding ROOTS member in her battle with cancer.
ROOTS is a family, and sometimes it's important for family members to help one another.
Jo Carson, a founding member of Alternate ROOTS, is in the midst of a pitched battle with colon cancer. You can help.
Jo has been a self-supporting artist for more than 30 years. Since quality, affordable health insurance is extremely difficult for independent artists to obtain, the insurance coverage Jo has is utterly insufficient to her current need – her policy will cover her surgery, but not the extensive chemotherapy and radiation she is currently under-going.
This is both an individual issue – one of the nation’s leading community-based artists is facing a mountain of medical expenses – and a systemic issue – independent workers with any kind of pre-existing condition are consigned to crappy, over-priced health insurance.
Jo needs your help. A contribution of any size will go directly from ROOTS to Jo, to help offset the mounting expenses of fighting cancer. We need Jo’s voice and her words and her work with communities. Jo needs to be able to receive the appropriate health care to address a dire medical situation for which there is no simple remedy.
(read a blog from Jo about her experiences by clicking the link from her picture)
Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to create social change through art. This program began in recognition of the need to institutionalize ROOTS’ knowledge in the field. RSC trainers are artists experienced and schooled in the methods of using and bringing art into communities that traditionally may not have considered the important role that the arts can play in addressing oppressions and effecting social change.