Arrests at St. Vincent's Hospital Activists Can Be Heard Chanting in Paddy Wagon!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcToWCh5VhU


Mike Bloomberg and his mini-me Christine Quinn (aka known as Ms. Slush and Intimidation want to tell people where they can and can't smoke and they say it is a health issue but when it comes to saving hospitals they don't give a damn! They help their real estate buddies but a hospital in the West Village is a non-priority.

Bravo and well done for these activists!!!!

St. Vincent's Hospital Update from Yetta Kurland

Dear Neighbor,

Thank you for taking part in Friday's town hall on retaining a hospital for the lower west side of Manhattan. The event was a huge success. Almost four hundred New Yorkers met at the Hudson Guild to demand a hospital at the St. Vincent's site. Much of the three hour meeting was composed of residents speaking about how much St. Vincent's has meant to them, and how essential a full-service community hospital is to our city.

As we mourn the loss of St. Vincent's Hospital and express outrage at the way it was closed, it is essential that we realize that this has just begun. With a hospital full of infrastructure, thousands of highly skilled staff and hundreds of thousands of community members already in place, a community hospital on the St. Vincent's site is achievable. But it will take a concerted, organized community movement to win the battle in the courts of law and public opinion that lay ahead. We do not need a massive new hospital, we simply are asking that we work to renovate the existing structure using adaptive reuse and minimal costs to ensure a hospital with the same level of care in the same location, run in a financially responsible way.

As we saw this weekend in Times Square, the west side of Manhattan is constantly at risk. Emergency facilities could be quickly overwhelmed in the event of a crisis. A hospital at the St. Vincent's site is vital to the security of our city.

We are pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to ensure that the west side has access to full service emergency and hospital care. Civil Rights Attorneys Yetta Kurland and Thomas Shanahan are leading the legal battle, with efforts in both state and federal court.

There are also significant steps we can all take in the immediate to let our elected officials know we must have a hospital at the St. Vincent's site.

To keep everyone informed, we've started a blog at http://DemandaHospital.blogspot.com/ - link. It's got a lot of the information we discussed at the town hall on Friday, and will be updated as things progress. Please visit the blog and comment with your suggestions and stories. Also we ask that you take a moment to forward it on to your family, neighbors, co-workers and any one else who cares about the health and safety of New Yorkers.

It is essential that we keep the pressure on our elected officials, who will have to part of any solution to this crisis. You can find some key people to contact and all their information on the Demand A Hospital blog at http://demandahospital.blogspot.com/2010/05/contact-your-elected-officials-and_01.html - link.

So, the struggle continues. We'll be sure to keep you posted.

Yours in solidarity,
Yetta Kurland

Yetta Kurland exposes shady closing of St. Vincent's post by Suzannah B. Troy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XBtpawY_3Q

Yetta Kurland ask you to join her for a march and rally to demand a hospital for the community

Dear Neighbor,

I hope you will join me tomorrow at the March and Rally which will start at 1pm at 25th Street and 9th Avenue and meet at St. Vincent's at 2pm and don't forget to bring a sign or poster that lets our elected officials know we deserve more than "urgent care" and that we demand a Hospital, not an Urgent Care Center, to serve our community.

I also want to let you know about the Community Town Hall Meeting, which will be held April 30, 2010 at 7pm at the Hudson Guild (9th Avenue location) to update everyone on our legal efforts to stop St. Vincent's wrongful closure.

I was disappointed yesterday that the Bankruptcy Court denied our stay to stop the closure.  So many of us have stories of being deeply connected to St. Vincent's.  The cultural, medical and historic loss will be felt for a very long time.

But this is only beginning our or efforts.  Now more than ever, must fight to ensure comprehensive health care for our community.  To do that, we need to ensure our community has a voice in these bankruptcy proceedings.

We will continue.  I promise we will not give up until we have answers to what went wrong at St. Vincent's, until we have a new hospital with better management that comports with the needs and look and vision of our community.

Finally, I promise to fight to ensure that our voice, the community's voice, is heard in this process.

In solidarity,
Yetta

David Kaufman author and theatre critic & Suzannah B. Troy as mermaid discussing La Cage Aux Folles, St. Vincents and Goldman Sachs

David Kaufman and I enjoyed this beautiful day having lunch outside in the West Village.   Here I am donning a dress which is rare and posing as a mermaid.


 We discussed the greedy new scandal of epic proportions of Goldman Sachs.  So much for supposed change and we had to bail out these banks.

A YouTube was sent to me earlier today with a woman asking President Obama why not bail out St. Vincent's considering the community depends on this hospital.

I praised Yetta Kurland to David because of her efforts to save St. Vincent's which has taken her literally to Manhattan Supreme Court according to the NY Daily News where she is representing patients.  She is asking the judge to stop the closure of St. Vincent's.

And last but not least we enjoyed the beauty of the day and David Kaufman highly recommends the revival of La Cage Aux Folles.   He told me it is a must see because it is so intimate and moving.  It is a seedier stting which makes it more realistic; truer to the material.  Extremely entertaining and yet politically significant.  Be accepting of everyone!  (Including us mermaids.  p.s. As usual I am on the run and I am paraphrasing and rushing....