A tidal wave of suffering and human need has been on display this week at a free healthcare clinic inside a Los Angeles-area sports arena. Just as the New Orleans Superdome, packed with refugees from Hurricane Katrina, shocked the world in 2005, the scene in Inglewood, California gives a glimpse of the social crisis devastating America. And it could be multiplied, a thousand times over, in every city, suburb and rural district of the United States, as deepening unemployment and spreading homelessness exacerbate what was already a vast unmet need for healthcare services.

Israeli Knesset Member from the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality Dove Hannen was one of hundreds of international and Israeli peace activists who participated in the weekly anti-wall protest in the village of Bil'in on Friday. Hannen was tear gassed, shot at with rubber-coated metal bullets and subjected to sound bombs by soldiers from his country’s military as he marched with Palestinian villagers and internationals toward the Israeli separation wall being built on the village lands.