Exclusive online movie screening of Power to Heal fundraiser - $24
A portion of the proceeds will go toward Northridge Indivisible and SFV Feel the Bern Democratic Club to help us continue our work for a better future for all of us. For example, Medicare of All.
POWER TO HEAL is an hour-long documentary narrated by Danny Glover that tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
Before Medicare, disparities in access to hospital care were dramatic. Less than half the nation's hospitals served black and white patients equally, and in the South, 1/3 of hospitals would not admit African-Americans even for emergencies.
Today the Covid-19 Pandemic has revealed the continued inherent failures, inequities and disparities in our current profit first healthcare system; people of color and underserved communities have disproportionately paid with their lives, and the social and economic destruction caused by the pandemic was only made worse under an employer-based system not designed to deliver healthcare to everyone.
Speakers include
Producer & Project Creator, Dr. Barbara Berney
Gina Currie, RN
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago
Progressive Champion Nina Turner
Other agenda items include
Premiere of the newly recorded "CalCare Stayin' Alive"
Call for Action Informational: the CalCare Solidarity Project
Feel the Bern - Democratic San Fernando Valley has made CalCare/AB1400 -California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act our priority. We are dedicating a large percentage of our budget and volunteer hours to campaign for this lifesaving, and equality building policy.
Written into AB1400 is policy that promotes equity and cultural appropriate care which is essential to the health of California.
We hope you will join us for our fundraiser and support our work pushing for this and all relevant progressive policy.