Direct Action Gets The Good At Hunger Strike For Health Care Occupation This weekend, more than a dozen critically ill undocumented immigrants in need of organ transplants struck back, taking a six-day-old hunger strike to the doors of one of the nation’s wealthiest healthcare non-profits to demand a meeting with Northwestern Memorial CEO Dean Harrison. Harrison, who earned almost $10 million in 2010, heads up a system of hospitals, clinics and medical practices – including flagship facility Northwestern Memorial Hospital – earned $1.7 billion last year. The ultimatum Northwestern faced from the protesters was simple: We will not leave — we are fighting for our lives. On Monday evening, after an avalanche of terrible press that humanized the dire trick bag that undocumented people in need of transplants confront in Chicago, and with no end in sight to the encampment of sick people outside their doors, Northwestern blinked. Hospital officials announced that undocumented patients will be added to their transplant list. Organizers and patients have vowed to return if Northwestern reneges. Read on: counterpunch.org/2013/08/06/when-direct-action-gets-the-goods/ Info on their next action: https://facebook/events/195633750603538/ More info on the campaign: tinyurl/strike4health tinyurl/strike4care
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:56:27 +0000
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