Sunday, April 18, 2021
WHAT: Power to Heal: End Inequality in Healthcare!
WHO: California Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
WHEN: Sunday, April 18th 3:00 - 5:00 PM PT
CONTACT: Nell Myhand 510-543-5280 myhand9466@gmail.com; Margaret Prescod 323-646-1269 mp@allwomencount.net
To Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L3O0lLQeSSeOfzk5TGgr3w
California Poor People’s Campaign Asks for
an End to Inequality in Healthcare.
The Jubilee Platform of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival calls to establish a universal, single-payer health care system that provides health care to all. As part of its efforts to implement the Platform, the California Poor Peoples Campaign has organized an event that will focus on ending inequality and pressing for quality healthcare for all taking place on Sunday, April 18th from 3-5pm. Inequality in healthcare was greatly exposed by the covid pandemic, and during the pandemic healthcare inequality actually increased. Solutions to ongoing issues will be discussed including current California policy that presents us with a “Medicare moment” that has the potential to exponentially narrow the gaps of inequity in California’s current health care system.
The program includes the screening of the film Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (30 min version) followed by a panel discussion. The film is a documentary narrated by actor, activist Danny Glover and tells a poignant story of how hundreds of hospitals were desegregated and access to health care broadened for African Americans especially in the US South. It is an incredible story of how in the 1960’s civil rights leaders, grassroots activists, and African American doctors worked together to win Medicare. Medicare was then the vehicle used to desegregate hospitals.
Panelists include: Dr. Barbara Berney, the producer and creator of the film; Dr. Chandra Ford, UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, and National PPC Health Justice Advisory Committee; Martese Chism, Board Member National Nurses United/California Nurses Association; Wendy Whitaker of SEIU Local 2015; and Jacqueline Johnson with the Alexandria House Community and Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike, an impacted person who will give personal testimony.
