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"HEALTH CARE CRISIS AND ELECTION 2004"
August 31/September 1
This conference and the Rally of the Uninsured will be held at the time of the Republican Convention in New York City, August 31st/September 1st. CUNY Graduate Center Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue. Please come if you can.
tell the Republicans and Democrats, "We need health care for everybody NOW". If you can't come, send us your message and a contribution to help. Just go to the DONATE click on this page. We will add your name as an endorser to the program journal.
Call our office and send your copy if you want to purchase an ad. 212-475-8350. And check the schedule of events with your local station if you want to call in during our national Pacifica Radio hook-up.
Click here to download and print an Adobe Acrobat file of our printed program.
(To register, call the CUNY Graduate Center at 212-817-8215. For more information, call1-800-453-1305.)
(Go to our "Where to Stay" page for information about finding a place to stay in New York during the conference.)
ÝIf you can't come, send us your message and a contribution to help make it possible. Just go to the donate click on this page. We will add your name as an endorser to the program journal. Call our office and send copy if you want to purchase an ad. 212-475-8350. And check the schedule of events with your local station to call in during our national Pacifica Radio hook-up. To register: Call the CUNY Graduate Center at 212-817-8215.Ý
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31ST:
8:30-9:00 A.M. JAZZ - Joel Aronowitz and Group
9:00- GREETINGS - Jim Winkler, General Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church
9:15-10:15 SPEAKOUT ‚ Rally of The Uninsured and the Almost Uninsured speaking out on Health Care
10:30-12:00 WE CAN GET NATIONAL HEALTH CARE !
- Dr. Oliver Fein, NY President, Physicians for a National Health Program
- Representative John Conyers (D-MI), author of The U.S. Health Insurance Bill, H. R. 676
- Dr. Quentin Young, National Coodinator, Physicians for a National Health Program
12:00-12:20 Jazz - Eddie Gomez and Mark Kramer
12:20- 1:20 LUNCH in the 8th Floor Dining Room or the Snack Bar
1:20-2:00 P.M. FAITH GROUPS BELIEVE IN HEALTH CARE EQUALITY
- The Reverend Jim Winkler, General Secretary of the United
- Methodist General Board of Church and Society
- Nurah W. Ammat'ullah, Executive Director, The Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development
- Barbara Baylor, United Church of Christ, Minister for Health and Wellness Programs, Justice and Witness Covenanted Ministries, the United Church of Christ
- Rabbi Pamela Wax, Westchester Jewish Community Center
2:00-4:00 PACIFICA TOWN HALL COVERAGE: "The People's Health Care Plan" Call-ins from around the country interspersed with the panels.Ý(WBAI in NYC)
- Dr. Rudy Mueller, Author of "As Sick as it Gets"
- Hector Figueroa, Secretary Treasurer, SEIU, 32BJ
- Cheri Honkala, Organizer, Poor People's Human Rights Campaign
- Dr. Alim Muhammed, Executive Director and Medical Director of The Abundant Life Center
- Ethel Long Scott, Executive Director, Women's Economic Agenda Project
4:20 ‚ 6:20 THE BUSH MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG FRAUD
- The Walter Cronkite Video
- Dr. Steffie Woolhandler , Co Founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, "How H.R. 676 will resolve the prescription drug problem"
- PNHP Slide Show
- Dr. Walter Tsou, President Elect of the American Public Health Association, "How to Fight Back against this fraudulent drug bill and the attempt to destroy Medicare"
6:00-7:30 DINNER - On the 8th Floor or the Snack Room
7:00- 7:15 THE NYC LABOR CHORUS Live Performance
EVENING PROGRAM
8:00-10:00 GENERATION DEBT (18-30 YEAR-OLDS)
WE Are Not Invulnerable...We All Need Health Care
- Adrienne Maree Brown, The League of Young/Independent Voters
- Anjeli Taneja, The American Medical Students Association
- L. James, Grassroots Artists Movement
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST
9:00 A.M. WELCOME - Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers of America
9:15-10:15 Uninsured and Almost Uninsured SPEAKOUT ON HEALTH CARE
Mark Dudzic, Chairing
10:15-1:00 LABOR NEEDS HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYBODY
- Moderator: Brenda Stokely, President, D.C. 1707, AFSCME
- LEO Gerard, President, United Steelworkers of America
- Barbara Bowen, President ,the Professional Staff Congress
- George Gresham, Secretary/Treasurer,1199/SEIU
- Roger Toussaint, President, Local 100, Transport Workers Union (invited)
- Workers Discussion and Questions to the Panelists
- Janitors, Home Health Care Workers, Immigrants, Hip Hop and other Cultural Workers, Health Care, Mental Health, and Support Staff, Agricultural, Marginally employed and other workers.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR HEALTH CARE
- Mark Dudzic, National Organizer, The Labor Party
- Gene Carroll, Professor, Cornell School of Labor, (former Executive Director of Jobs with Justice
- Charlie Crystal, Pennsylvania Businessman and Health Care Supporter
1:00- 2:00 LUNCH at Dining Room on 8th Floor or the Snack Bar
2:00-4:00 PACIFICA RADIO TOWN HALL Coverage
What are the Answers_ President Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers of America; Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, Co-Founder of the Physicians for a National Health Program "Examples of Health Care Organizing that Work"; Representative John Conyers, Author of H.R. 676, National Health Care Bill "The Bill and What is In It for Everybody"; Michael Moore, Filmmaker "The Media Could Help" (Invited); Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator of CNHP NOW. "We can do it if we Organize" Resume' of the Bush and Kerry Health Care Plans; Call-Ins from around the Country
2:30- 4:30 WOMEN insist "EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT WORKS"
- Ethel Long Scott, Executive Director, Women's Economic Agenda Project
- Medea Benjamin, Executive Director, Global Exchange and Code Pink
- Kim Gandy, President, The National Organization for Women
4:30-6:00 Training - Concurrent Sessions in Breakout Rooms
- Community Health Care Organizing (The Labor Party)
- Using a Film for Organizing Your Community (Kay Tillow, Kentucky Nurses)
- Judy Wessler, Health Care Crisis Organizing in NY City
- Rick Tingling Clements, Organizing to End Health Care Disparities
6:00-7:00 Dinner
EVENING PROGRAM
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. THE RAGING GRANNIES and THEIR DAUGHTERS
7:15 - 7:45 p.m. The Reverend Jim Forbes, Senior Minister, Riverside Church, "Why We Must Work for Health Care for Everybody NOW"
7:45 - 9:00 p.m.PANEL: Getting to a National Health Care System
- Amy Goodman, Host, Democracy Now, "Health Care Stories I Hear Every Day"
- Michael Moore, Filmmaker and Author (Invited), "Embedded: Bought and Paid For By the Corporations -- What We Can Do The Health Care Crisis."
- Howard Zinn, Professor, Activist, Author, "How We Can Win"
The Campaign for a National Health Program NOW.
800-453-1305
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