Because Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege This year, the annual policy symposium of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (HCH) will address the politics of exclusion and challenging the ways people are denied rights and benefits due to their race, ethnicity, disease, disability, income or housing status – exclusions that underlie and define homelessness.
In conjunction with the symposium, HCH has assembled documents of exclusion – eviction notices, benefit denial letters, waiting list notices, etc. – into a dramatic display to anchor a public rally, "Opposing the Politics of Exclusion." The rally will call for justice in the form of comprehensive health care, adequate affordable housing and livable incomes for low-income people.
The rally will be held Wednesday, May 28, at 5 p.m. in the Upper Senate Park on Constitution Avenue, across from the Capitol (between Delaware and New Jersey Avenues). Call Megan Linz at 410/837-5533, ext. 395, or send an e-mail here for more information.
