On the Marin Commons - A Conversation between Dr. Quentin Young and Robert Ovetz Ph.D.
Channel: Jim Geraghty
Date: 2012-02-09

Dr. Quentin Young has throughout his life emphasized the connection between civil rights and health rights. The grandfather of the single-payer movement, he co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program and is presently its national coordinator. In his six decades practicing medicine in Chicago, he not only treated Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the Beatles, he became a local and national leader on issues of medical rights and social justice. During the civil rights movement, he formed a doctors' group that came to the aid of protesters in the south. He has held many prominent posts both as a medical doctor and as a spokesperson for justice, and he appears regularly on radio and television.

Robert Ovetz Ph.D. has appeared on CNN, NPR, Air America radio and numerous newspapers and magazines around the world including the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Business Times, Post-Courier (Papua New Guinea), Orlando Sentinel, Kyodo News (Japan), UPI, Reuters, Canberra Times (Australia), Bloomberg, The Ecologist (UK), Z Magazine, and the BBC. His report "The Bottom Line: An Investigation of the Economic, Cultural and Social Costs of Industrial Longline Fishing in the Pacific and the Benefits of Sustainable Use Marine Protected Areas" was published by the United Nations in 2005.
His writings have also been published in numerous academic journals including Capital & Class, Common Sense, Environmental Practice, Critical Sociology, California Sociology, Journal of Environmental Education, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, and Marine Policy. He also worked as an editor for Kluwer Law International and co-edited the book Reforming the International Financial System (Forum on Debt and Development: The Netherlands, 2000). He has also contributed to the books Restructuring the Universities (Red Thread: Greece, 2008) and Utopia Today—Reality Tomorrow: A Vegetarian World (European Vegetarian Union: Italy, 2005).
Ovetz is currently working on edited book projects for PM Press of Oakland including a collection of writings of Harry Cleaver, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Taped on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at the, 
Community Media Center of Marin, San Rafael CA
http://cmcm.tv