Land and Labor AcknowledgementThe Association of American Medical Colleges’ headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., the traditional homelands of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway and Pamunkey people. The American Medical Association’s headquarters is located in the Chicago area on taken ancestral lands of indigenous tribes, such as the Council of the Three Fires, composed of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo and Illinois Nations.
With more than 65,000 Native Americans and Indigenous peoples represented in 175 different tribes, Chicago today has the third-largest urban Indigenous population in the U.S. More than 4,000 American Indians and Indigenous peoples still reside in the District of Columbia. We acknowledge their ancestors were forced out by colonization, genocide, disease and war.
The AAMC and AMA also acknowledge the extraction of brilliance, energy and life for labor forced upon millions of people of African descent for more than 400 years. We recognize the significant contributions that Native Americans/Indigenous peoples and people of African descent have made to this country ...
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A friend who is a retired MD tells me the AMA has always been socialistic, which is why he declined to join. He says their membership has been declining, though they deny it, and that they tend to attract a lot of medical students, but that many doctors do not join for a variety of reasons.
Now we can read the whole laundry list of those.
Still quite influential with the media, alas.
That is the problems with organizations and why I never join them. Now matter what the original purpose, all organizations are eventually subverted and taken over by self serving operatives. They turn it into a grift to personally profit from your dues and contributions. A prime example: the NRA. I paid up life membership decades ago. I haven't given them a dime in years. They do nothing but support the lifestyle of Wayne LaPierre and his cohort. Worthless.
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