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Stand Up For Us: Miriam

As the GOP threatened to take America over a Fiscal Cliff in late 2012, cuts to Social Security and Medicare became a dangerously real possibility for our nation’s most vulnerable. So MoveOn called upon its members to speak out to President Obama and state Senators, urging them to protect Americans who need it most. For this ad, Art Not War traveled to New Orleans to tell the story of a woman named Miriam, who relied on Social Security and Medicare to care for her mother in the wake of a serious illness.