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DESCRIPTION:Alameda County AHS Hospital Workers: Strike for Black Health and 
 Vitality\n\n#HealthJusticeNow!\n\nJoin Alameda Health System workers 
 walking out for Black Health and Vitality! \nBlack healthcare workers, 
 patients, and communities are on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 Even before the pandemic, mismanagement of our public hospital system was 
 depriving workers of access to vital resources and proper staffing. Unequal 
 health outcomes \nfor Black patients continue to pose a significant threat 
 to public well being. With lives on the line, health professionals and 
 patients alike are demanding action. Alameda Health System must become 
 accountable to the public and put an end to its racist health 
 inequities.\n\nWhen: Monday, July 20, 2020 @ noon - 2 PM \n\nWhere: All AHS 
 facilities, with community supporters rallies outside \nHighland Hospital 
 in East Oakland & Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro\n\nFacebook post: 
 https://www.facebook.com/events/621375871815267\n\nOrganizers: AHS SEIU, 
 Alameda Country Coalition for Healthy Communities, \nEast Bay Socialists of 
 America\n\nFor more information on the nationwide Strike for Black Lives 
 and a full list of all supporting organizations, go to: 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/15/18835112.php\n________________________________________________________________\n\nHOW 
 WE STRIKE\n\nFrom 12-2pm healthcare workers will walk out from all AHS 
 facilities, while community supporters rally outside Highland Hospital in 
 East Oakland and Fairmont Hospital \nin San Leandro.\n\nAfter walking out, 
 we will lie down for 8 minutes and 46 seconds—the time in which George 
 Floyd was suffocating under a police officer’s knee—to honor George 
 Floyd as well as the Black healthcare workers who have died from lack of 
 PPE while fighting Covid-19.\n\nBlack frontline healthcare workers, 
 patients and community will speak on the urgency of these 
 issues.\n\nFEATURED SPEAKERS:\nBoots Riley\nDerrick Boutte\nSheleka 
 Carter\n\nWHY WE STRIKE\n\nThe dire situation of our public health system 
 disproportionately affects Black communities. \nUnder the current 
 unelected, unaccountable administration, Black patients and workers often 
 receive inferior treatment in our AHS facilities, all while management 
 tries to take away the rights, pay, and benefits of the Black unionized 
 workers who are fighting to save lives.\n\nMeanwhile, the county’s lack 
 of solutions for the houselessness pandemic strains the public health 
 system and poses severe threats to the safety of Alameda County’s most 
 vulnerable residents. We call on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to 
 take responsibility for our public health and unequal health outcomes for 
 Black communities!\n\nWHAT WE ARE STRIKING FOR\n\n--We demand that the 
 County Board of Supervisors regain control of AHS! \n--We demand fair 
 contracts for frontline healthcare workers at AHS that recognize the 
 invaluable services to the community!\n--We demand an increase in funding 
 to AHS to improve the quality of care for our patients, the majority of 
 whom are Black and Brown!\n--We demand equal treatment and representation 
 within the Alameda Health System! 
 \n________________________________________________________________\n\nSAFETY: 
 Protocol for Risk/Harm Reduction While Protesting during COVID-19\n\nM4BL 
 Link: 
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aCsBMjlpFb7JwcF4kYo0oyFc3aXpN6jf0piDl6RtVA/edit\n\nTo 
 control the spread of the novel coronavirus while in person protesting, 
 PLEASE:\n\n--Wear cloth face coverings/masks; they protect other people if 
 the wearer is infected, even if they’re not showing symptoms.\n--Practice 
 physical distancing, staying more than six feet away from people who are 
 not a part of your household, if possible.\n--Use hand sanitizer 
 often.\n--Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed 
 hands.\n--Avoid touching surfaces.\n--Minimize contact by multiple people 
 with commonly used surfaces like water bottles, bullhorns, handrails, and 
 barricades\n--Minimize yelling and singing. Make noise with drums, 
 tambourines.\n--If you use a megaphone, it should be thoroughly sanitized 
 between different speakers\n\nIf you have the following symptoms, please DO 
 NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have 
 these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions, and instead, 
 consider engaging in online actions.\n--Fever\n--Shortness of 
 breath\n--Cough\n--Headache\n--Loss of smell or taste\n\nCDC: Older adults 
 and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or 
 \nlung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious 
 complications from COVID-19 illness.\n\nCDC COVID-19 link: 
 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html\n________________________________________________________________ 
 \n\nNationwide Strike for Black Lives Online Actions\n\nNo matter who you 
 are or where you are, there’s a place for your voice.\nDuring COVID-19, 
 this includes actions you can take online:\n\n1. Things You Can Do Right 
 Now\n2. Organizations to Support\n3. Ways to Learn More\n\nGo to: 
 https://www.mobilizeforthewild.org/get-involved/take-action-for-black-lives/\n________________________________________________________________ 
 \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/18/18835158.php
SUMMARY:Alameda County Strike for Black Health and Vitality
LOCATION:ALAMEDA COUNTY:\nHighland Hospital, 1411 E 31st St, Oakland, CA 
 94602\nFairmont Hospital, 15400 Foothill Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94578
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/18/18835158.php
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