Event: Save University of Chicago Womens Health Center at 47th and Woodlawn
RallyHost: Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)
Date/Time: Friday, May 29 at 10:30am
Outraged community to march on U of C to save women's clinic
Patients, community, workers, students launch
Patients, community, workers, students launch
campaign against patient dumping
Following the recent announcement that the University of Chicago intends to close the 47th st. Women's Health Center, outraged patients, community members, workers and U of C students are announcing a campaign to fight the plan starting Friday May 29th with a press conference at the clinc (near Woodlawn and 47th st.) at 10:30am after which they will march to the U of C administration building for a 12pm rally.
"The University of Chicago has treated our community like a guinea pig since its inception. Now that they are at the Forefront of Medicine, they want to treat us like we are toxic waste. We as patients need this clinic and other local clinics cannot handle the dumping the University is planning,” says Deborah Tayler, a patient at the clinic and spokeswoman for Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP).
The action is being called by an ad hoc coalition of groups that sees the clinic closures as part of the University's broader effort to push poor people - especially people of color - out of the Medical Center and out of the community. The Coalition for Healthcare Access Responsibility and Transparency (CHART) is composed of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP), the Illinois Single Payer Coalition, U of C Students for a Democratic Society, Students Organized and United with Labor and the Southside Solidarity Network as well as several members of Teamsters Local 743. CHART is following up the protest with a forum moderated by Cliff Kelly called “Whose Hospital: A Community Forum on the U of C Medical Center” on Wednesday June 3rd at 6:30pm on the U of C campus in the Harper Building at 1116 E. 59th st room 140.
May 29 Actions to Save Clinic
10:30am- Press Conference at clinic 1301 E. 47th St.
11:15am- March from clinic to campus
12noon- Rally at U of C Admin Building – 5801 S. Ellis
"The University of Chicago has treated our community like a guinea pig since its inception. Now that they are at the Forefront of Medicine, they want to treat us like we are toxic waste. We as patients need this clinic and other local clinics cannot handle the dumping the University is planning,” says Deborah Tayler, a patient at the clinic and spokeswoman for Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP).
The action is being called by an ad hoc coalition of groups that sees the clinic closures as part of the University's broader effort to push poor people - especially people of color - out of the Medical Center and out of the community. The Coalition for Healthcare Access Responsibility and Transparency (CHART) is composed of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP), the Illinois Single Payer Coalition, U of C Students for a Democratic Society, Students Organized and United with Labor and the Southside Solidarity Network as well as several members of Teamsters Local 743. CHART is following up the protest with a forum moderated by Cliff Kelly called “Whose Hospital: A Community Forum on the U of C Medical Center” on Wednesday June 3rd at 6:30pm on the U of C campus in the Harper Building at 1116 E. 59th st room 140.
May 29 Actions to Save Clinic
10:30am- Press Conference at clinic 1301 E. 47th St.
11:15am- March from clinic to campus
12noon- Rally at U of C Admin Building – 5801 S. Ellis
Chicago Tribune Article about the closing...
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