POWER World Health Day Movie

Movie about POWER's World Health Day demonstration for our human right to health care. Demonstration organized by Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights (POWER), of Portland, Maine. For more information, please visit POWER's website at http://www.povertyontrial.org ...

This demonstration took place in front of Maine Medical Center - the largest hospital facility in the state of Maine.

POWER is collecting stories of economic human rights violations and conditions of poverty here in Maine, including violations to our right to health care.

If you have a story to tell about your experiences with health care injustice, poverty, and/or any other economic human rights issue - please contact POWER and let us know: visit http://www.povertyontrial.org/contact.html for contact information.

Or tell our story using our online economic human rights survey: http://www.povertyontrial.org/ehr_survey.html

Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
is a grassroots anti-poverty action group that is led by poor & low-income people. United with all those who align themselves with this mission, together we're building a local movement to win economic rights for all, end economic oppression, & abolish poverty. When we unite to claim our rights, together we have POWER!!!

POWER is a proud member of the national Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign: http://www.economichumanrights.org
http://www.universityofthepoor.org

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• healthcare
• demonstration
• economic
• human
• rights
• organizing
• poverty
• rally
• protest
• Maine
• medical
• uninsured
• justice

[amyjohn5555]

All the nay-sayers can keep their share of this broken system. The rest of us are sick of it. I for one can't afford to keep forking over a third of my salary for health care that I STILL can't afford to use. But if you're rich like the Rex and flinnk most likely are, sure, go ahead and pay all you want for your fat cadillac health plan. Keep on sticking your pretty little heads in the sand. Go ahead and mock people who are fighting for their lives and the lives of all Americans.

[iceblue775]

GOD BLESS you guys keep on doing what your doing remember that it is not big crowds that change the world but it starts with a few to make a difference.

Lets fight for justice!!!!

[Rexanglorum]

I admire the softness of their hearts but not the softness in their heads.

I am all for helping people who cannot afford insurance buy insurance. I am not for believing that the laws of scarcity can be shouted away with slogans and/or nationalization.

The discussion about healthcare is much more complex than these people believe it is and the solutions do not consist soley of denouncing those who actually provide the heathcare.

[flinnk]

This is nothing more then an attempt to socicalize healthcare. These folks should go and become clinicians and give free service to people. Then, we will listen. Also, anyone can go to this hospital for service. You will not be turned away.

[essej2342]

No health care no peace! Keep it up guys. We'll get there yet.

[yungnani]

Peace & Strength.

[denmorr]

good job you guys - this is awesome!