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Groundbreaking Citizens' Hearing and Truth Commission on Health Care Invites All to Testify and Share Real Solutions to Alameda's Health Crisis

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Will Open the Hearing of Over 200 People from Alameda County

When: Saturday, March 25th, 2006 10AM-2PM

Where: The Forum Building at Laney College (10th St. entrance)
900 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94607

What: An unprecedented broad community and labor coalition, including over 200 people from Alameda County, will come together at this Citizens' Hearing on Alameda County's Health care Crisis. The hearing will expose the tragedies of our broken system and push for real solutions.

Who: Honorary Chair Congresswoman Barbara Lee will open the event. A diverse crowd of over 200, including the uninsured, folks without health insurance at their jobs, medical professionals, and low-wage workers will share tragic stories at this truth telling with Alameda County commissioners, Rep. Barbara Lee, and others. Representatives from Women's Economic Agenda Project, SEIU local 535, 790, CNA, The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, SISTERS, St. Mary's Center will be available to speak from their perspective.

Why: Because we don't have to settle for horror stories like what happened to Portia Anderson, an Oakland, CA, breast cancer survivor whose job provided no health insurance. She grew increasingly frightened as private medical agencies kept insisting, month after month, that she would have to pay for them to examine a growing lump in a breast. Every step along the way the demand for money was put over what she needed to save her life. Ultimately it would be a women's health clinic who took her in and referred her to a public hospital. Portia notes a five month delay between getting diagnosed and getting treated. "Had the cancer been very aggressive I would probably not still be alive," she said.

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