Activist and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg showed up at the University of Minnesota’s American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union’s Rally for Affordable & Accessible Healthcare for All this week, spoke about his support for the workers, and played “There is Power in a Union” and “Keep the Faith.” The AFSCME is the union for the university’s clerical, technical and health care workers. The are fighting for a simple sliding-scale health care model, but the university’s administrators – at an institution that is supposedly so very progressive – won’t even discuss it. Bragg happened to be in Minneapolis to play a gig last night at the Cedar, but still took the time to get to the noon rally. 

He was interviewed by Margaret Cho on the Monsters of Talk podcast in May, when he talked about the need for universal health care in the U.S. and Breaking Bad. And some of Cho’s tattoos. Their point is similar to the recent Breaking Bad, Anywhere But America Edition comic strip.
 

 
Bragg tweeted this pointed comment at Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday:
 

Did Ted Cruz not get this message re: universal health care? Who's he working for? pic.twitter.com/NdBavznQme

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) September 25, 2013

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Animated excerpt from Monsters of Talk podcast with Margaret Cho interviewing Billy Bragg: