Standing Together for Our Health - It's About Time! Community Organizing, Coalition Building and Advocacy |VERTICAL - video Dailymotion

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Health equity is foundational to the well-being of every community, yet barriers to critical healthcare continue to affect underserved populations. In this session, we will explore the powerful impact of community organizing, coalition-building, and advocacy in addressing one of the most pressing health crises of our time: access to organ transplantation. Featuring global recording artist Al B. Sure!, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Rachel Noerdlinger. Join us as we discuss how powerful coalitions are working to shift the conversation around healthcare access, showing how grassroots advocacy can transform lives and help ensure that health equity is a right, not a privilege.

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00:00The first thing is people need to get involved locally.

00:04You have to understand what your local contingencies of elected officials,

00:10your local advocates, and people in the community that are actually on the ground,

00:15like the National Action Networks, that know what is real and what is not real.

00:21And a lot of this is also folks have to stop believing everything that they see

00:26on Instagram, TikTok, and X, etc.

00:29Because it's a very, very dangerous place to be.

00:33You have to really use discernment in this moment to ask the right questions

00:39and really, really come at this with an analytical eye and an activist eye.

00:46Everybody needs to hit the streets.

00:49As Reverend Sharpton said, it is time for us to continue to turn demonstration into legislation

00:55as we deal with misinformation and disinformation.

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