BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18807277 SEQUENCE:18951031 CREATED:20180310T025900Z DESCRIPTION:MARCH FOR OUR HEALTH 2018\n\nWhere: Oakland, CA\n\nWhen: Saturday, May 12 at 11:00 AM PDT\nUPDATED TIME: 1:00 PM\n\nWe Need Improved Medicare for All Now.\n\nThe U.S. is one of the only countries in the "developed" world that does not guarantee universal health coverage. We pay more for health care and have worse outcomes because the system isn't built to take care of people, it is built so that private health insurance and private pharmaceutical companies can make more and more money. \n\nPrivate healthcare in this country is bad enough, but Trump and the GOP are on a mission to make it far worse through cuts to the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid. We need these programs, and much more. \n\nMedical illness is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. There are 4 paid lobbyists for every single congressperson in Washington DC and health industry lobbying spending continues to rise as the expectation and discussion of healthcare and medicare for all grows. Both Republicans and Democrats at the state and federal level take millions from those who profit off of the sickness and suffering of US residents. The private health insurance companies don't want to pay for the health care we need because it would impact their profits. It's time to get private profits out of Our Healthcare.\n\nA Healthy Life Means Breathing Clean Air and Drinking Clean Water.\n\nWest and Downtown Oakland residents have some of the highest asthma rates in the country, and have higher stroke, heart failure, stress, and diabetes rates than other areas. The higher air and environmental pollution exposes people living in these and other environmentally polluted areas of the Bay Area to worse Health outcomes than higher income communities in other areas. Fossil fuel companies, including the 5 corporations that have oil refineries in the Bay Area, do not base their decisions around the health of human beings or the environment. They exploit our resources and pollute our communities in search of greater profits.\n\nA Healthy Life Means a Living Wage and a Place to Live.\n\nThat means enacting a minimum wage that is a living wage, a wage that allows us to purchase healthy food and afford to live where we work if we want to. 3 men in the U.S. have more money than half of the US population, over 160 million people. Corporations don’t want to pay workers a living wage because it would impact their profits, but they wouldn’t be able to make that surplus without profiting off of the real value that the workers’ create. Developers don't want rent control and affordable housing because it would impact their profits. There are currently over 500,000 unhoused persons in the US at this time and there are more vacant houses than unhoused people. \n\nA Healthy Life Means Living a Life Free of Discrimination and Oppression. \n\nInstitutionalized discrimination and oppression lead to economic inequality, higher stress, worse health outcomes and shorter life expectancy. We need to end institutionalized racism and sexism. Black Lives Matter. Equal pay for equal work. No discrimination based on ability, skin, or gender. No more deportations and full legalization for all US residents.\n\nMarch for Our Health's Demands:\n\nStop Trump's Attacks on Our Health! \nFight cuts to the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid.\n\nWe Need Medicare for All!\nRelease and pass SB 562 in California as a step towards nationwide Medicare for All.\n\nNo More Evictions!\nEnact living wage laws, rent control, and publicly fund affordable housing.\n\nFight Climate Change and Environmental Pollution!\nFor a mass green jobs program to invest in renewable energy to replace fossil fuels.\n\nNo More Institutionalized Racism and Sexism!\n\nHalt all deportations, full legalization for all US Residents, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Equal access to opportunity for all regardless of ability, race, or gender.\n\nEndorsements:\n\nHealthy California\nHealth Care for All California\nSocialist Alternative Bay Area\nEast Bay Democratic Socialists of America\nDemocratic Socialists of America: San Francisco\nPhysicians for a National Health Program\nNational Union of Healthcare Workers\nUPTE-CWA Local 9119\nCalifornia Alliance for Retired Americans\nCalifornia Partnership\nUC Berkeley Progressive Student Association - Our Revolution\nEast Bay Young Democrats\nOur Revolution California\nOur Revolution East Bay\nOur Revolution Contra Costa County\nCourage Campaign Contra Costa\nEl Cerrito Progressives\n\nhttps://www.marchforourhealth.org/\n\nWE ARE WORKING WITH MARCH FOR SCIENCE BAY AREA.\n\nIn 2018, March for Science - SF is working together with the East Bay Science Coalition and March for Science - Silicon Valley to bring together a single March for Science Bay Area. They'll be marching in Oakland on April 14th, 2018 to share the spirit that science is critical to the health of individuals, society and our planet in support of the March for Our Health event on May 12th.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/09/18807277.php SUMMARY:March for Our Health 2018 in Oakland LOCATION:1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 9461 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/09/18807277.php DTSTART:20180512T200000Z DTEND:20180512T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR