The Leitner Center for International Law and Justice is proud to co-sponsor:

Celebrating the Growing ‘Healthcare Is a Human Right’ Movement

On Human Rights Day we celebrate the growing movement for health care as a public good and human right. Join us, along with Laura Flanders, Founder and Host GRITtv.org, for a dialogue about innovative campaigns to go beyond Obamacare, pioneered in Vermont and now taken up in Maryland, Maine, and Pennsylvania.

We will honor one of the movement’s most inspiring human rights leaders, the late Peg Franzen, former president of the Vermont Workers’ Center, who exemplifies the power of people to effect change. The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign made Vermont the first state in the country to pass a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system.  We will be joined by representatives from the Healthcare Is a Human Right campaigns in Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Vermont, which collectively form the vanguard of a new human rights movement for universal health care.

Reception begins at 7pm.  Program will include a roundtable discussion moderated by Laura Flanders, music, tribute videos, and more.

When: December 10th, 2013 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Location: Church Center for the United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10017
United States

For more information, please visit: http://www.nesri.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=19

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