All out for Sept. 19 national action day for Medicaid

The Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party issued the following statement on Sept. 13. 

The Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party fully endorses and promotes the call for protests against the cuts in Medicaid. The Nonviolent Medicaid Army has called demonstrations in 15 states on the weekend of Sept. 18 to 20, with all but two taking place on Sept. 19. These protests come in the wake of massive Medicaid cuts, first when the Biden Administration prematurely announced that the COVID-19 pandemic was over and then when the bigot in chief, President Donald Trump, passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” last year. 

As stated on the group’s web site, “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 [Martin Luther King Jr.’s] ‘nonviolent army of the poor’ from the first Poor People’s Campaign of 1968.” Its goals include “uniting the working class across lines of division; strengthening the politically independent organization of the over 140 million poor and dispossessed people in the U.S. today.” (nonviolentmedicaidarmy.org) 

The Nonviolent Medicaid Army explains: “There are currently 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 South of the U.S., and the fight for healthcare broadly unites the global working class.”

To check out the breakdown for the National Day of Actions for Medicaid and read the individual fliers for these protests go to nonviolentmedicaidarmy.org and scroll down.