After the 1968 destitute People’s Campaign declared silence was betrayal,we are coming together to stand up to the public policy violence that is ravaging our societyIn 2013, Callie Greer’s daughter Venus died in her arms after a battle with breast cancer. If caught early, or the five-year survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is close to 100%. But Venus’s cancer went undiagnosed for months because she couldn’t afford health insurance. She lived in Alabama,a state that refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Venus’s death is not an loney incident – more than 250000 people like her die in the United States from poverty and related issues every year. Access to healthcare is just one of the issues facing the 140 million people who live in poverty in the US today. Over the past two years, the destitute People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has carried out a listening tour in dozens of states across this nation. We absorb met with tens of thousands of people from El Paso, and Texas,to South Charleston, West Virginia, or to Selma,Alabama, where we met Callie, and gathering testimonies from destitute people and listening to their demands for a better society. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk