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SF & S. Bay Meetings On New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area

by Laborfest
Brad Ott, chair of the Committee To Reopen the Charity Hospital in New Orleans will be visiting the bay area on July 26 & July 27. The Charity Hospital was a WPA project and was the largest hospital in New Orleans with 5,000 workers. The hospital was the major healthcare provider for New Orleans where 65% of the people have not healthcare insurance.
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SF & S. Bay Meetings On New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area

http://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm


From New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area (The Struggle to Defend Public Healthcare & Our Hospitals)

July 26 (Saturday) 2:00 PM (Free) UCSF -Room N-217 -Second floor of School of Nursing (Nursing Building can be reached using the Clinical Sciences Building entrance door (at 521 Parnassus Avenue) and then taking an elevator up. Or, Koret Way (the western extension of Kirkham Avenue) ends at the back entrance on the fifth floor of the School of Nursing Building.
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From New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area (The Struggle to Defend Public Healthcare & Our Hospitals)
The fight to reopen the New Orleans Charity Hospital, the largest public hospital in Louisiana will be part of the focus of this educational forum. Not only the Gulf Coast, but also San Francisco with the danger of a major earthquake is under threat by hospital closures.
Presenting will be: Brad Ott, Chair Of The Committee To Reopen Charity Hospital
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF CUE Local 6, Dr. Jill Atoine UCSF,

July 27 (Sunday) 2:00 PM (Donation) San Jose State University - Martin Luther King Library Room 255
From The South Bay To New Orleans & The Spirit of 1929 with Videos, Music & Food
With screening of Streetcar Stories about the transit strike in New Orleans in 1929.
By Michael Mizell-Nelson, speakers on Gulf Coast Reconstruction and The Fight to Reopen Charity Hospital with Brad Ott.
For contact call 408-420-5760, mhejazi [at] calcsea.org
http://www.poboyfest.com/history
http://www.poboyfest.com/history/video
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-26/120063729340330.xml&coll=1
http://www.SolvingPoverty.com
http://neworleanslabormedia.org/health-care-new-orleans:-crisis-catastrophe
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