[Sosfbay-discuss] TODAY LABORFEST is in San Jose!!!!!2PM SJSU MKL Jr. Library

[Carol Brouillet]

THIS EVENT IS HAPPENING TODAY!!!!  PLEASE COME!!!

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San Jose and New Orleans have seen the closing of hospitals and have 
community groups working to restore them.  On Sunday July 27th Brian 
Ott, chair of the Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital will discuss 
post-Katrina efforts to restore the largest public health care 
facility in Louisiana.  Also featured is the film "Spirit of 
1929-Streetcar Stories" which depicts the turbulent general strike in 
New Orleans at the dawn of the Depression.


Charity hospital in New Orleans was the second largest hospital in 
the country before Katrina closed it in 2005. This 550 bed state 
funded facility was designed in 1930's and has been part of New 
Orleans architectural, cultural and medical heritage since its 
founding in 1735 to serve the indigent. Brian Ott of the Committee to 
Reopen Charity Hospital , along with speakers from the Coalition for 
a Downtown Hospital in San Jose will share efforts to preserve health 
care facilities. Like New Orleans, San Jose has lost its Downtown 
hospital. Here local citizens have been mobilizing support  to 
preserve and protect public healthcare. A fall bond measure  may 
provide funds for restoring county medical facilities which include a 
Down Town  medical unit. We will enjoin a panel to talk about how 
both cities can foster efforts to save public health care services in 
CA. and LA.

Date:              July 27, Sunday
Where:           San Jose State University Library Room 255 150 
E.Fernando St. in San Jose
Time:              2:00 p.m. Film and Discussion
Information:    Call Michael Hejazi UAW 2350 CSEA (4080-420-5760
                       Jim Kelly San Jose City College Labor Studies 
(408)298-2181 x2575

Full LaborFest schedule at 
<http://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm>http://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm



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