COVID-19/Medicare for All Town Halls by State

 

We have partnered with powerful state-based allies to host state-focused town halls with Members of Congress, local officials, and state experts from labor, business, public health, and progressive communities, to galvanize Medicare for All activism. Watch the recordings below from some recent state town halls, and contact us if your organization would like to partner to organize a town hall in your state.
 

 

New Jersey COVID 19/Medicare for All Town Hall – June 2021

https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalRevolution/videos/843243056320265

  • Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
  • Council Member Santiago Rodriguez, Trenton City Council
  • Council Member Kate Triggiano, Red Bank Borough Council
  • Council Member Dean Dafis, Maplewood City Council
  • Alderman Edward Correa, Dover Board of Aldermen
  • Kelly Coogan-Gehr, National Nurses United
  • Thomas Cook, Founder Pharmacists for Single Payer and small business owner
  • Adalia Fragoso – Make the Road Action – NJ
  • Melinda St. Louis, Public Citizen
  • Anna-Marta Visky, Our Revolution New Jersey

California CalCare/Medicare for All Local Resolutions Training – March 2021

Speakers include:

  • Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia
  • Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin
  • Oakland Councilmember Sheng Thao
  • Phil Kim, California Nurses Association
  • Melinda St. Louis and Brittany Shannahan, Public Citizen
  • Activist leaders from Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo and San Diego

Illinois COVID 19/Medicare for All Town Hall – October 2020

Speakers include:

  • U.S. Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
  • Commissioner Brandon Johnson, Cook County Commission
  • Alderman Matt Martin, Chicago City Council
  • Dr. Susan Rogers, president-elect, Physicians for a National Health Program
  • Dr. Pamella Gronemeyer, physician and small business owner
  • Wendell Potter, insurance industry whistleblower, Business Leaders for Health Care Transformation
  • Larry Hopkins, president, UE Local 1177
  • Melinda St. Louis and Brittany Shannahan, Public Citizen
  • Sheilah Garland-Olaniran, Illinois Poor People’s Campaign
  • Nidhi Shastri, Illinois Single Payer Coalition

Connecticut COVID 19/Medicare for All Town Hall – August 2020

Speakers include:

  • U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
  • Wendell Potter, former health insurance executive and founder of Center for Health and Democracy
  • Erica Watson, STEM educator and lecturer at Eastern Connecticut State University
  • Dr. Mark Stelzner, professor of economics at Connecticut College
  • Margaret Dabrowski, a 911 dispatcher and vice president of UE Local 222
  • Melinda St. Louis, director of Public Citizen’s Medicare for All campaign

Tennessee COVID 19/Medicare for All Town Hall – May 2020

Speakers include:

  •  U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
  • Wendell Potter, former health insurance executive and president of Business for Medicare for All
  • Stephanie Kang, a Nashville-based health policy adviser to U.S. Rep Pramila Jayapal (D- Wash.)
  • Dr. Brenda Butka, Nashville pulmonologist and member of Physicians for a National Health Program
  • Andy Spears, Executive Director for Tennessee Citizen Action
  • Miller Wey, Middle TN DSA
  • Kristen Grimm, founder of Mothers for Medicare for All
  • Melinda St. Louis, director of Public Citizen’s Medicare for All campaign

Michigan COVID 19/Medicare for All Town Hall – April 2020

Speakers include:

  • U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.)
  • State Rep. Yousef Rabhi, Democratic floor leader, Michigan House of Representatives
  • Detroit City Council Member Raquel Castañeda-López
  • Abraham Aiyash, statewide training and political leadership director, Michigan United
  • Hebah Kassem, organizing associate, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center
  • Melinda St. Louis, director, Public Citizen’s Medicare for All campaign
  • Eli Rubin and Bill Farmer, Michigan for Single Payer Health Care