There is a march and rally to save LICH on Sunday. Please join us in Brooklyn.
Date : Sunday, April 7, 2013
Time: 1 p.m.
Place : Coffey Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn, near Dwight and Verona Street entrance (marked with the red "A" marker in the attached map)
Subway : F/G trains to Carroll Street in Brooklyn (it is a few blocks to Coffey Park).
Long Island College Hospital remains open for care !
Join Brooklyn patients, 1199SEIU, the New York State Nurses Association, doctors, elected leaders, and community allies for a march and rally to save our hospital. We'll kick off at Coffey Park in Red Hook and then march to LICH.
This week we won another victory in our campaign to keep LICH open for care -- a judge granted a new temporary restraining order blocking the closure of LICH.
We're going to keep fighting for our hospital. Join us!
RSVP on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/579997705351219/
Please watch this startling YouTube video, dramatizing the dangers in ambulance transport times due to the wave of hospital closings in New York City : http://youtu.be/e-fCiCUg_VM
Following is a thank-you-note from our friends at Strike Debt. As you can see by their valuable work, it is important to keep the faith and to keep pressing on. We need you to continue to speak up about the unjust healthcare cuts and hospital closings.
Thank you for all that you do.
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From: Aleksandra PerisicDate: April 5, 2013, 2:24:07 PM EDTTo: Aleksandra PerisicSubject: Thank You from Strike Debt
Dear all,It has been nearly two weeks since the Healthcare Emergency: Life or Debt actions. During that time we have been analyzing the various aspects of the events, thinking about what could come next, and taking a much-needed repose. We want to let you know that we have not forgotten you and that those of us from Strike Debt who worked on the action would like to extend our deepest and most sincere thanks.Thank you to Healthcare for the 99%, NYSNA, PNHP, HCN, Hands off St. Vincents, Act Up, Health Gap, and everyone else who worked hand-in-hand with us on this action. We all know that by running our healthcare system on profit, we are destroying not only the lives of those who need it most, but also practitioners’ ability to foster and provide compassionate and mindful healing relationships with other human beings. But, without your time, ideas, expertise, logistical input, and hard work this shared knowledge would have remained just that – knowledge shared by the few of us who have had the privilege to access it. Instead, our collaboration created a space which exemplified what it means to provide both basic and preventive care all while providing people the opportunity to rethink what healthcare truly can and should be.Strike Debt will continue to buy and abolish debt through the Rolling Jubilee. We plan on continuing to use these purchases as opportunities to highlight the inhumanity of debt and publicly explore what alternatives could look like in a system not run by profiteers. We expect to buy more medical debt in the coming months and we hope you accompany us on this journey. We will stay in touch with you as our plans unfold.Below is a list of links to the media attention we garnered for the event. Please take the time to review this coverage at your convenience, at let us know if you see any others. Know that your participation in this event holds tremendous value and meaning – not just in our eyes, but in the of all those who chanced upon these articles.Thank you once again,AleksStrike DebtRolling Jubilee Action TeamPS: We’ve been gaining a number of followers on social media (Facebook, Twitter). We’d like to use it to help you. If you have a social media presence, or any events that you would like for us to promote, please let us know!Media Response:CNN Money piece (3/15/2013):Death and Taxes Magazine piece (3/15/2013):Daily News piece (3/16/2013):AOL News (3/20/2013):The Nation piece (3/22/2013):Truthout piece (3/26/2013):Huffington Post piece (3/27/2013):The Villager piece (3/28/2013):
