r/MedicareForAll

The organizations partnering for Seven Days in June – including UNITE HERE, AFL-CIO, SEIU, American Federation of Teachers, Families USA, American Public Health Association, Defend Public Health, Metropolitan Community Churches, NMAC, National Nurses United, National Public Health Coalition, Save HIV Funding, Vivent Health, AIDS United, and Pride at Work – represent millions of Americans who demand answers.

How You Can Help 
Host/Register Your Events: Register your hosted event. During the week of June 1-7, we need town halls, panel discussions, forums, demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils, and AIDS Memorial Quilt displays. Approved events will be added to a national interactive event map. 

Recruit & Activate: Bring others into the campaign. Reach out to faith leaders, advocates, local healthcare heroes, community leaders, and elected officials. If an organization is already organizing a similar event, encourage them to register it so it can be added to our national event calendar.  

Amplify through social media and communications. Use this toolkit and your social channels, newsletters, emails, websites, media contacts, to build awareness and drive participation. 

Demand Answers: Use these events to demand clear and specific commitments from local, state, and federal representatives to protect America's health systems before the election.

Join The Candlelight Vigil: At sunset on Friday, June 5, communities everywhere will gather for candlelight vigils to honor those already lost and the millions more whose lives are at risk if funding is not restored. Every endorsing organization and event host is encouraged to participate.

From June 1 to June 7, Local groups and advocates will organize town halls, panel discussions, forums, demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils, interfaith services, and other tactics, as appropriate for their organizations and communities. 

The organizations partnering for Seven Days in June – including UNITE HERE, AFL-CIO, SEIU, American Federation of Teachers, Families USA, American Public Health Association, Defend Public Health, Metropolitan Community Churches, NMAC, National Nurses United, National Public Health Coalition, Save HIV Funding, Vivent Health, AIDS United, and Pride at Work – represent millions of Americans who demand answers.

Here’s how you can help!

Amplify through social media and communications. Use this toolkit and your social channels, newsletters, emails, websites, media contacts, to build awareness and drive participation. 

Demand Answers: Use these events to demand clear and specific commitments from local, state, and federal representatives to protect America's health systems before the election.

Join The Candlelight Vigil: At sunset on Friday, June 5, communities everywhere will gather for candlelight vigils to honor those already lost and the millions more whose lives are at risk if funding is not restored. Every endorsing organization and event host is encouraged to participate.

If you feel the need to get more involved or even want to host an event, more information can be found here. Templates for emails and text messages to send to representatives can also be found here! Get involved!

From June 1 to June 7, local organizations and advocates from across the country will demand that local, state, and federal representatives clearly articulate how they will:

Improve affordability and access to care and treatment.

Sustain and strengthen biomedical research.

Protect and modernize domestic and global public health infrastructure.

Provide stability for seniors, veterans, rural communities, people with disabilities, working families and others reliant on accessible, affordable healthcare.

Local groups and advocates will organize town halls, panel discussions, forums, demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils, interfaith services, and other tactics, as appropriate for their organizations and communities. 

In the meantime, Here’s What We Can Do June 1-7:

Endorse the Seven Days in June: HEALTH IS PRIMARY

Organize or co-sponsor Town Hall meetings with health department officials, agency heads, service providers and elected officials to examine the impact of health cuts on your local communities.

Demand clear and specific commitments from commitments from federal, state, and local representatives to protect and strengthen America’s health systems through candidate forums, questionnaires and published score cards.

Participate in rallies, demonstrations, AIDS Memorial Quilt displays, social media campaigns, as appropriate for your organizations and communities.

Celebrate your local “healthcare heroes,” the hard-working people whose skill and compassion are the backbone of America’s healthcare system.

Reaffirm the centrality of compassion, empathy and service as core values of every faith tradition through interfaith solidarity.

Gather at sunset on Friday, June 5 in communities around the nation to hold candlelight vigils honoring everyone who has died as a result of cuts to healthcare.

Find out more here!