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Community Health Advocates Launch Informational Picket of Todd Stroger's Church

CHICAGO -- Activists organizing against the proposed cuts in county health care will bring their message to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's church, St. Felicital, 1526 E. 84th Street, this Sunday, March 4 at 10:30 am.
"President Stroger has to hear us that cutting front line health care workers, while preserving 6-figure patronage jobs, is NOT the Christian thing to do," said one of the protest organizers, Beauty Turner of the Poor People Millennium Movement. "Due to rampant gentrification in Chicago, poor people are increasingly being pushed out into areas of the county where public transportation is minimal, and yet this is where the most severe cuts are proposed to take place. Poor people already die at an accelerated rate due to not getting preventive treatment at the same rates as others, and getting treatment later when it is less effective. These cuts will literally kill people."

Demands of the protest are:

1) No cuts in front-line health care workers, such as nurses, doctors and orderlies.

2) No cuts in other vital social services, such as public defenders.

3) Cut the patronage havens found at the management levels of Cook County government.

The activists are hoping that Stroger's fellow parishioners will help pressure him into stopping the cuts that would further hurt an already enfeebled public health care system.

"It's ridiculous that at a time when every other industrialized nation in the world has national health care, the United States is instead pumping billions of dollars into occupying other countries and threatening war against yet more nations," said Turner. "It's a scandal that on a local level, Todd Stroger is following these misplaced priorities by cutting health care rather than expanding it."
 
 

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