The genocidal devastation of the healthcare system in Gaza is funded by the U.S. government as poor and dispossessed people here are being kicked off of Medicaid by the millions.
Poverty in America is a death sentence – it is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States. There is no American military without American poverty, and there is no Zionist state without the U.S. state.
Despite the majority of Americans across lines of division supporting a ceasefire, the ruling class continues to wage its war on the people of Gaza and the American poor.
Join us for a strategic conversation with members of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army about how we use healthcare organizing to build a movement strong enough to outmaneuver the powers that be and fight state violence in all its forms.
Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko is a co-founder and co-coordinator of Put People First! PA and the Nonviolent Medicaid Army. They are a Black and Indigenous organizer with Levantine roots (the area that now contains Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine) whose decades of work organizing with the poor and dispossessed in the United States is informed by her experience with the International Women’s Peace Service during the second Intifada.
Karim Sariahmed is a physician, a coordinator of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army in Massachusetts, and co-founder/co-coordinator of Healthcare Workers for Palestine.
Marc Shi is a physician, a member of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army, co-coordinator of Healthcare Workers for Palestine in New York and a member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition.
Tony Eskridge is a political and cultural organizer born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned a B.A. in Urban Studies with a minor in Political Science at Rhodes College, and Tony’s work focuses on building relationships, sharing personal narratives, and researching the true impact that interlocking injustices have on our society. He is committed to centering the poor, low wealth, and dispossessed in policy conversations and building a movement to end poverty.
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