The Nonviolent Medicaid Army of the poor is a growing, politically independent force of the poor and dispossessed, united across identities, regions, races and issues, modeled after MLK's 'nonviolent army of the poor' from the first Poor People's Campaign of 1968. We are currently active in states like Wyoming, Wisconsin, Texas, Indiana, Georgia, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Maryland and Vermont. We are not a coalition or a campaign but a network of organizations and committees that understand healthcare to be a strategic front of struggle to unite the working class. Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nonviolentmedicaidarmy.
The 2024 Nonviolent Medicaid Army Week of Action will take place
around the country between September 21-28, 2024. The Week of Action
will focus on the theme Medicaid Cuts = Death and call attention to
more than 25 million people who have been cut from Medicaid since
April 1, 2023 as the result of a bipartisan decision that was included
in the Omnibus spending bill of December 2022 and then signed by
President Biden. Actions around the country will make the invisible
visible and shift the narrative, calling for an end to Medicaid cuts,
keeping our hospitals open, stopping the privatization of Medicaid,
Medicare, and the Veterans Administration and calling for Medicaid 4
All. In the richest country that has ever existed in the history of
the world, we know there is enough!
Download the Week of Action Toolkit here:
https://bit.ly/NVMA2024WoAToolkit.
There are currently over 90 million people in the U.S. who get their healthcare through Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program). Those who are on or excluded from Medicaid represent the diversity of the entire working class and are impacted by every single front of struggle there is - be it the fight for housing, a healthy environment, living wages, food, education, freedom from debt, freedom of migration, or freedom from criminalization and incarceration. The fight for Medicaid is common to the North and the South of the U.S. and the fight for healthcare broadly unites the global working class.
As millions more in this country are thrown into the ranks of the unemployed or underemployed, the need for Medicaid steadily increases and healthcare will continue to be one of the top concerns on the minds of the everyday people. We call for "Medicaid for All" - expanding Medicaid to every resident alongside the abolition of Managed Care Organizations and de-commodification of the healthcare system overall. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army centers the leading social force - the poor and dispossessed - in the fight for healthcare as a human right, a transformative demand in the context of a system that seeks to profit off of our pain, sickness and death.
Any organization of the poor and dispossessed whose members are directly impacted by the fight for healthcare as a human right or any of the fronts of struggle faced by those who are on Medicaid or who need it, can and should join the Nonviolent Medicaid Army. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army is a vehicle through which we can cohere leaders to assess the terrain and take strategic action together to grow “the new and unsettling force” into an unstoppable nonviolent army commensurate with the times we are living in.
El Ejército No Violento de Medicaid de los pobres es una creciente fuerza militante de los pobres y desposeídos, unidos a través de identidades, regiones, razas y problemas, siguiendo el modelo del "ejército no violento de los pobres" del Reverendo Dr. Martin Luther King de la primera Campaña de los Pobres de 1968.
Los que tienen o están excluidos de Medicaid representan la diversidad de toda nuestra clase y se ven afectados por cada frente de lucha que existe, ya sea la lucha por la vivienda, los salarios dignos, la alimentación, la educación, la libertad de la deuda, la libertad de migración o ser libre de criminalización y encarcelamiento. La lucha por Medicaid une al norte y al sur de los EE. UU. y la lucha por la atención médica une ampliamente al proletariado global.
En esencia, como veremos al avanzar en este período, la totalidad de la clase trabajadora está conectada a la lucha por Medicaid para todos. Se convierte en una lente a través de la cual las masas de personas pobres y desposeídas pueden verse y unirse en torno a un centro de gravedad político, lo que nos mantiene avanzando en una dirección acorde con el espíritu y el potencial de la Campaña de la Gente Pobre: Un llamado nacional para el avivamiento moral.
A medida que millones más en este país se colocan en las filas de los desempleados o subempleados, la demanda de Medicaid se disparará, y la atención médica seguirá siendo una de las principales preocupaciones en la mente del pueblo estadounidense. El Ejército No Violento de Medicaid centra la fuerza social líder, los pobres y desposeídos, en la lucha por la atención médica como un derecho humano, una demanda revolucionaria en el contexto de un sistema que busca sacar provecho de nuestro dolor, enfermedad y muerte.
Cualquier organización de pobres y desposeídos cuyos miembros se vean directamente afectados por la lucha por la atención médica como un derecho humano o cualquiera de los frentes de lucha que enfrentan aquellos que están en Medicaid o que lo necesitan, pueden y deben unirse al Ejército No Violento de Medicaid para asestar un golpe a la clase dominante. El Ejército No Violento de Medicaid es un vehículo a través del cual podemos unir a los líderes para evaluar el terreno y tomar medidas estratégicas juntos para hacer crecer "la nueva fuerza inquietante" en un ejército no violento imparable acorde con los tiempos en que vivimos.
Unite the working class across lines of division
Strengthen the organized forces of the over 140 million poor and dispossessed people in the U.S. today
Identify, develop and unite leaders
Expand Medicaid to all and de-commodify the healthcare system
Goals are currently only available in English.
Unite the working class across lines of division
Strengthen the organized forces of the over 140 million poor and dispossessed people in the U.S. today
Identify, develop and unite leaders
Achieve a universal, single-payer healthcare system and all of our human rights
For more information and to get involved contact: Para obtener más información y participar, comuníquese con: putpeoplefirstpa@gmail.com