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It will take more than citizens voting to stop the brutality and dehumanization. I believe it was in the mid-1970's when Gov. Mike O'Callahan of NV decided to cut a lot of people off from welfare and Medicaid, which were already bare bones programs. Attorneys Jack Anderson and B. Mahlon Brown of the Legal Services office in Las Vegas recruited many legal students and organizers from around the country to come organize locals and march on the Las Vegas Strip, led by my friend Ruby Duncan the leader of the local Welfare Mothers group. My signature was on the petition originally as a non-legal representative and I joined the march. O'Callahan was humiliated and was forced to reinstate all of the people who had been cut off. Will the people in TX, FL., and those other states take to the streets? If not, this will continue. There is a disconnect now and people do not see the threat coming their way.

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