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Fight for Health Care Equality Kicks Off

Week in Community Values for March 26, 2009
Born out of a mass rejection of the failed policies of individualism and divisiveness, the Campaign for Community Values is a return to the beliefs our country was founded on: shared responsibility, shared sacrifice and shared success.
 
Take a look at the great work our partners across the country have done since we last updated you:
 
HROP Helps Launch Health Care Equality Project
 
The Health Rights Organizing Project, a program of Northwest Federation of Community Organizations and the Center for Community Change, joined more than 20 major labor, community, health, civil rights, social justice, and faith organizations to kick off the Healthcare Equality Project, a campaign to fight health care disparities. HROP joined the campaign to demand that health care reform address the serious and pervasive inequalities that plague the American health care system, and to fight for health care that works for everyone.
 
"The health care system provides vastly unequal access and treatment based on race, language, and ethnicity. Racism within the health system is literally making people of color sick. The good news is that solutions are out there,” said Jill Reese, health equity and training program director with NWFCO. “President Obama has committed to reforming health care this year. We must ensure that reform doesn’t end with everyone just having an insurance card. That card needs to be coupled with access and quality care in order to right the injustice of health care inequities.”
 
See what others are saying about the Project’s launch:
 For more information, please visit http://www.healthequityproject.org/
 
Immigration Radar
What every immigration reporter should know
 
From The Hill:
House Democrats ready to give immigration bill another shot
 
House Democrats are laying the groundwork for another major immigration debate this year. Moving broad legislation that would put millions of undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship seemed politically impossible until fairly recently, and may still end up too hot for Congress to touch.
Partners’ updates
Community Organizations in DC for Congressional visits:
 
The Campaign for Community Values continues its first 100 days campaign of bringing 10 grassroots community leaders to Washington each week to push their elected officials on universal healthcare, just and humane immigration reform and workers’ rights. The leaders arrive in DC with a full calendar, making more than 30 congressional visits per week.  
 
See what others are saying about our 100 Days of Action:
This week, the Campaign brought representatives from the following organizations to DC:
Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) – Hawaii
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos – New Mexico
OneAmerica – Washington
Albuquerque Partnership – New Mexico
Urban EpiCenter – Tennessee
Maine People’s Alliance
Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS) – New York
Gamaliel Ohio
WISDOM
 
The following organizations are coming to DC next week:
California Partnership
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) – California
Western Organization of Resource Councils – Montana
Tennessee Jobs with Justice
New York Immigrant Coalition
Voice Buffalo – New York
ISAIAH - Minnesota
Korean Resource Center - Illinois
 
Reporters interested in shadowing the community leaders should contact Mary Moreno at (202) 339-9316 or mmoreno@communitychange.org. 
 
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