There is now a funding bill for SB840, called SB1014. Keep updated on this via this link.
SB840 itself is headed to Senate Appropriations next Monday, May 14th. By early June, maybe the 8th, it will be on the Senate Floor. Subscribe to SB840 updates via this link.
If you have been searching for that opportunity to catalyze interest and build momentum on your campus, here is what you can do: California Physicians Alliance is requesting that we compose hand-written, personal appeals to senators. CaPA did this very well two years ago, with the 400+ letters subsequently generated helping to push SB840 as far as it went. If you want to do this, let Parker Duncan know at pduncan, and he can send you the resources you need to hold a “Letter Luncheon” in about one hour!
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CaPA (California Physicians Alliance) is sponsoring a speaker training, led by Don Bechler, on Saturday, May 12, in West Berkeley. It should be both a great way to hone lobbying skills for California’s Universal Health Care Bill SB 840, and a great opportunity for public speaking and health advocacy work in general. CaPA is hoping to get more students involved. Several JMP students have flown to Boston, Philadelphia, and Santa Monica to have such trainings, but we’re lucky to have a training for free in our own town when we’re finished with classes.
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Agenda
1. Check-in
2. Announcements
3. Rules
4. Name Game
5. Clinic Updates
6. Elections- Sunny
7. Checkout
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There are currently over 50 Berkeley students (undergraduates, medicine, public health, law, business, alternative medicine) signed up to go on a bus to Sacramento on January 16th to learn about Universal Health Care and to tell our state representatives that we demand it. All Berkeley students are welcome to join them on this march to the capital and to learn how to argue in favor of a bill that is feasible, economically sound and life-saving for the over six-million Californians who have no health insurance. Recruiting 100 Berkeley students is the goal; to find out how to join them, continue reading below.
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Our talk on SB840 and the disparities in access to healthcare in California will be held this Wednesday, April 26th, at 7:00 PM in 200 Wheeler Hall. The talk is open to the public.
Interested in medicine, public health, or want to learn more about the disparities in access to healthcare? Then please join us for a talk on our current healthcare crisis sponsored by SPEAC (Student Project for Education and Advocacy in the Community), a public policy division within the Suitcase Clinic.
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Admin
* voting on changes on the policy book next Tuesday
* Senate Bill 480 talk on 7:00pm about single parent healthcare
at 200 Wheeler - 4/26
* Open Meeting regarding class on 5:00pm at 578 University Hall
4/26. Everyone can come.
* First Thursday, May 4th, is the election. Please email Mira
about any openings you might have.
* Shirts will come next week
* During Cal Day we need people to table. Please see Kara.
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- Cal Day is 4/22, we need two people at every shift
- Minority and Healthcare conference - 4/23
- Trying to contact new sweater company
- Amit is doing receipts this month
- Elections are May 4 please notify admin if you have openings
- Remember you must train new person
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SPEAC division has been approved, the universal health care (SB840) talk is set for Wednesday April 26 at 7:00 PM
Agenda
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1. Chelsea
SHARE participants discussed on 3/21/06 which potential projects sounded the most important. Housing was decided upon, along with showers.
There was a discussion between whether our goals as an organization should be to make people comfortable while they are homeless, or to help people get out of being homeless altogether.
The free wireless Internet and laptop use at General Clinic project was also popular. One proposed idea is to negotiate with the university to setup special accounts for clients whom are regulars at Suitcase Clinic, and whom we thus have a relationship with.
Regarding the library project, Chelsea is going to draft a response letter to the University’s own response letter. The SHARE meeting on 4/4/06 will feature a discussion about the library project, and there will be a special meeting for people interested in contributing to the response to the university’s letter.
Three other good ideas have come out of SHARE. One is to do an educational event on hate crimes, gathering data on housing and shelters, and trying to expand shower hours so there are more showers available at morning and at night. It might be a good idea to meet with Julie, the city’s Director of Homeless Policy.
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