In this newsletter: Poor People’s Campaign Medicaid Organizing Movement Building with Our Allies This week we’ve been hit with an onslaught of bad news. Thousands of immigrant children are still detained and separated from their families, and the Supreme Court has validated Trump’s Muslim ban and attacks on unions and workers. But news and history […]
Category Archives: States
December 2016 state campaigns
December 2016 In this post: Now hiring New resources HCHR Collaborative statement on organizing in the Trump era Campaign updates: HCHR Collaborative Pennsylvania Maine Vermont News from our allies Now hiring: Healthcare Is a Human Right – Maryland: Statewide Organizer Put People First! PA: Southeast PA Field Coordinator New Resources: Here are new resources from […]
July 2016 state campaigns
HCHR Collaborative The Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative will gather in Portland, Maine, August 5th through 7th for a convening hosted by the Southern Maine Workers’ Center (SMWC). This year’s meeting will include a public event with SMWC’s local allies as well as strategy discussions and learning sessions on building multi-racial (and multi-generational and […]
February 2016 state campaigns
HCHR Collaborative Members from the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative have been speaking out in a powerful series of statements on what it means to organize a people’s movement that is grounded in human rights and that actively works to dismantle racism and other systems of oppression. Many of the pieces were a direct […]
Members’ Voices
Organizing Our Whole Selves: Reflections on the 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference by Jonathan Kissam and Karim Sariahmed November 30, 2015 At the end of October, we traveled with four other people from the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative to Chicago for the Single Payer Strategy Conference. The conference, hosted jointly by Healthcare NOW!, […]
November 2015
News Bulletin November 2015 In this newsletter: Campaign news: HCHR Collaborative Maine Maryland Pennsylvania Vermont News from our allies: Colorado to vote on universal, publicly financed healthcare Calendar of events Health news CAMPAIGN NEWS HCHR Collaborative Six representatives of the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative attended the Single Payer Strategy Conference at the end […]
August 2015
News Bulletin September 2015 In this newsletter: Campaign news: HCHR Collaborative Maine Maryland Pennsylvania Vermont News from our allies: Campaign for New York Health celebrates a victory Medicare & Medicaid anniversary actions Calendar of events Health news CAMPAIGN NEWS HCHR Collaborative After years of collaboration, this week our five organizations—Healthcare Is a Human Right – […]
May 2015
News Bulletin May 2015 Healthcare Is a Human Right is a people’s movement organizing state by state to win universal, publicly financed health care and build a society that puts people’s needs ahead of profits. This is a monthly newsletter from the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative (formed by the campaigns in Maryland, […]