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Johnstown: March against police violence; Fight for Human Rights

Posted by:
Put People First! PA Admin on August 13, 2020
Category: Actions, Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign, Nonviolent Medicaid Army, PPF Members, Southwest PA
Tag: conemaugh, elip cheatham, johnstown

JOHNSTOWN – On Saturday, August 1st, Put People First! PA and supporters held a ‘March against police violence; Fight for Human Rights’ in Johnstown starting at Central Park and continuing on to the police station to then City Hall and the Conemaugh hospital Lee campus.

Demands during the march included:

Police accountability and reallocating the Johnstown Police Department (JPD) budget to fund healthcare alternatives to aggressive, violent police practices like that of assaulting George Corson Jr on June 17th, while he suffered from a mental health episode.
The release of the names of the JPD officers involved and the state police report of the 6/25, 2012 police killing of Elip Cheatham of Johnstown.
Protection of our human rights during the pandemic and economic crisis including the right to healthcare, housing and protection from eviction.

For more information or to get involved in Johnstown, contact Healthcare Rights Committee Co-coordinators Larry at evolve3591@icloud.com or Maddy at madelinejburrows@gmail.com.

Video: We declare Jubilee!

Posted by:
Put People First! PA Admin on August 13, 2020
Category: Actions, Arts & Culture, Base-building, Campaign, Media & Communications, Nonviolent Medicaid Army, Northeast PA, Poor People's Campaign, Providers/Healthcare Workers, South Central PA, Southeast PA, Southwest PA
Tag: corona virus, covid-19, jubilee

On June 14th, 2020 the PA Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival held a statewide caravan in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Northeast PA, lifting up 15 sites of systemic injustice to advance campaigns on various fronts of struggle while uniting our class across lines of race and geography. Video by Tyler Burdenski

PA Poor People's Campaign We Declare Jubilee Caravan, June 14, 2020
On June 14th, 2020 the PA Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival held a statewide caravan in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Northeast PA, lifting up 15 sites of systemic injustice to advance campaigns on various fronts of struggle while uniting our class across lines of race and geography. Video by Tyler Burdenski
Posted by PA Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on Monday, August 10, 2020

SWPA: Healthcare is Human Right Survey // La Encuesta Sobre la Atención Sanitaria como Derecho Humano

Posted by:
Put People First! PA Admin on August 13, 2020
Category: Base-building, Campaign, Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign, Healthcare Survey, PPF Members, Public Healthcare Advocate, Southwest PA
Tag: corona virus, covid-19, encuesta, la atencion sanitaria como derecho humano, survey

We need your input!

If you live in Southwestern PA click here bit.ly/pghcovid19survey to take our survey on your healthcare experience during the pandemic. Millions of us are losing health insurance, can’t pay for medications, and still can’t get a Covid19 test. We are documenting these experiences to advance our campaign for a Public Healthcare Advocate and to guarantee Healthcare as a Human Right. Please share to help us reach our goal of 500 survey participants this month.

¡Necesitamos su opinión!

Si vive en el suroeste de Pensilvania, haga clic aquí bit.ly/pghcovid19survey para completar nuestra encuesta sobre su experiencia del sistema sanitario durante la pandemia. Millones de nosotros estamos perdiendo el seguro de salud, no podemos pagar los medicamentos y aún no podemos obtener una prueba de Covid19. Estamos documentando estas experiencias para avanzar en nuestra campaña para un Defensor de la Salud Pública y para garantizar la salud como un derecho humano. Comparta para ayudarnos a alcanzar nuestra meta de 500 participantes en la encuesta este mes.

Save the date: Medicaid Marches Week of 9/28

Posted by:
Put People First! PA Admin on August 13, 2020
Category: Actions, Base-building, Campaign, Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign, Medicaid, Nonviolent Medicaid Army
Tag: corona virus, covid-19, medicaid march

SAVE THE DATE: Medicaid Marches across PA week of September 28th!

March for Medicaid!

*For our families: 150k+ dead from COVID.

*For our people: the 700 people already dying every day from poverty!

*Change comes from below, not above! Join us!

We are building the Nonviolent Medicaid Army. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army of the poor is a growing militant force of the poor and dispossessed, united across identities, regions, races and issues, modeled after King’s ‘nonviolent army of the poor’ from the first Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army is made up of people on Medicaid, people unfairly excluded from Medicaid, and everyone who needs healthcare! We are fighting for healthcare as a human right, a revolutionary demand in a system that seeks to profit off of our pain, sickness and death. Join us!