We Must Act Now! Demand Science-Based COVID-19 Response
Solidarity,
Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Donna, Dr. Bill, Janis, Deb, Bryan, and Kimberly—Your PDA National Team
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TOMORROW, Join Our Emergency Healthcare Town Hall
Sun. May 17th, 4-5pm ET, 1-2pm PT—Contact Mike Fox
Congress is about to vote on COVID-19 legislation, and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is working within a large, powerful coalition to demand effective, science and medically based COVID-19 responses. We need your help now! Please take the following actions:
Click Here to tell Congress to include emergency funding for PPEs and mandate occupational and safety standards to protect healthcare professionals.
Protect Nurses, Patients, and Public Health
TOMORROW, Join Our Emergency Healthcare Town Hall
Sun. May 17th, 4-5pm ET, 1-2pm PT—Contact Mike Fox
Protect Healthcare Professionals! Make Calls For
The COVID-19 Health Care Worker Protection Act
Sign the Petition for Medicare For All
Sign the Petition: Protect the US Postal Service
Sign the Petition: Guarantee Healthcare During COVID-19
Sign the Petition: Demand Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
PDA’s Healthcare Emergency Webinar
TOMORROW, 5/17–RSVP To Mike Fox
Make Easy, Effective Movement-Building Calls
Tell Congress: Student Debt Cancellation Must Be
Part of the Next COVID-19 Emergency Legislation
Support PDA’s COVID-19/Healthcare Organizing
We’re horrified at the ongoing oppression of immigrants and asylum seekers. Our immigration policies have long needed fundamental reform. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, innocent people including infants and children were suffering and dying in custody.
Now, Trump is escalating his xenophobic attacks on immigrants once again, using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to terrorize people in hospitals, schools, and their homes.
Click here to tell your Representative and Senators to vote to defund and abolish ICE, to quickly pass the bipartisan Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, and to end inhumane and deadly abuses against immigrants and asylum-seekers.
Tell Congress To Support The USPS During This Crisis! We need the Post Office to ensure delivery of medications and other necessities, as well as to allow secure, accurate vote-by-mail for primaries and the general election.
Click Here to contact Mike Fox and RSVP for our Emergency Healthcare Town Hall TOMORROW, Sunday May 17th, 1pm PT, 2pm MT, 3pm CT, 4pm ET. Dr. Bill Honigman and special guests will answer your questions and discuss your concerns.
During this crisis, we’re relying on the U.S. Postal Service more than ever for delivery of basic necessities including medications. Even as we make plans for voting-by-mail that will dramatically increase already onerous pressures on the USPS, the Service struggles to cope with absurd, arbitrary pension requirements.
Click Here to tell Congress that the next emergency response legislation must adequately fund the USPS.
Act now! Congress will vote on the next COVID Response legislation as early next week. 46 million Americans are carrying a staggering sum total of 1.7 trillion dollars of student debt. They’re trapped, with no hope of paying off their debt unless Congress steps up to help. Sign the Petition Telling Congress to Cancel Student Debt.
Find out what we’re doing in response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, and how you can help. Please contact Mike Fox to RSVP to join TOMORROW’S Emergency Healthcare Webinar.
Can’t make the call but still want to help our healthcare campaigns? Contact us and we’ll keep you as busy as you’d like to be.
Can’t volunteer? Then pitch in what you can to help support our ongoing emergency response efforts, our campaign for Medicare For All, and other policies we need to effectively respond to the pandemic, to promote an equitable economic recovery, and to upgrade our healthcare system.
We can’t go back to business as usual after the pandemic crisis is over. We need to mobilize now for the Post-COVID-19 world. That’s why PDA supports the comprehensive Green New Deal agenda.
To ensure our immediate and long-term survival, we need the Green New Deal—policies to create millions of new, highly-paid, sustainable jobs, to build critically-needed infrastructure, to free ourselves from household debt, and to enhance our social safety net.
We need an empowered, progressive mass movement to demand the policies and government responses needed to save lives and rebuild our shattered economy. We need your generous support to get there.
P.S.: Read Reese Erlich’s article about VP Biden’s Foreign Policy, in which he quotes PDA Executive Director, Alan Minsky. Read Alan’s article in Commondreams.
This national crisis has shown the critical need for Medicare for All. As millions of Americans have lost employer negotiated insurance plans that were part of employee pay packages, we can no longer turn a blind eye to the critical need for medical care during this pandemic and any time of need. A healthy worker maintains a healthy economy as we are seeing now. This country can’t allow our economy to face this again. We must invest in the health of our greatest resource, our American workers, the real backbone of America.
To protect nurses we need these in the next COVID-19 package:
1. Mandate the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to enact an emergency temporary infectious diseases standard.
2. Mandate the president to fully utilize the Defense Production Act to direct U.S. manufacturers to massively scale up production of PPE.
While nurses put themselves at risk to keep us safe, let’s work to keep them safe.