NEW YORK—Some 200 medical students and others marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied in downtown Manhattan November 12 to demand universal access nationwide to health care, prescription medications, and preventive medicine. The protest was sponsored by the American Medical Student Association, which was holding a regional conference that weekend. “Health care should be a right not a privilege,” Kao-Ping Chua, a student at Washington University School of Medicine, told the Militant. Wanda Guy, 26, a medical student at Howard University who participated in the world youth festival in Caracas, Venezuela, in August, commented on the role of Cuban doctors in the world. “They’re doing phenomenal work,” Guy said. “Cuban physicians are saving lives globally. It’s more than just talk, it’s action.”

—PAUL PEDERSON  
 
 
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