We want to make sure their story is heard and that they have the tools to overcome digital exclusion, a new social determinant of health, to remain aware and engaged. Our goal is to ensure Latinos have accurate, readily available, and transparent information about COVID-19, equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, resources, and services. By forming meaningful partnerships facilitated by active collaboration and shared decision-making, our collective efforts can change public policy, reallocate funding to those who need it most, and improve the health and well-being of Latinx communities across the country.
We come together to help transform the social and economic conditions in Latinx communities by building connections with other organizations, task forces, coalitions, and alliances to amplify local voices to a national level. The Latino Coalition Against COVID-19 (LCAC19) is a national community-led, non-partisan, collaborative movement to build health equity in Latinx communities. Although almost half of the COVID-19 race/ethnicity vaccination data is missing, early analysis demonstrates patterns of vaccine exclusion that systematically correspond with race and ethnicity. However, the virus has taken a particularly severe toll on Latino, Black, and Native American populations who died from COVID-19 at nearly three times the rate of white Americans. recorded nearly 26 million COVID-19 cases and more than 429,000 deaths since the onset of the pandemic almost a year ago. As conversations around universal healthcare and single-payer continues to gain momentum at the national level, this film highlights the urgency of expanding healthcare access to undocumented people by centering the unwavering voices of immigrant health justice leaders. The other is a long-time community advocate who has been organizing directly impacted people towards policy change at the intersection of immigrant, health, and gender justice. One is an elderly caregiver who has spent over a decade taking care of senior citizens, in spite of being ineligible for the same services she provides. Set against the backdrop of California’s Health4All campaign, COVER/AGE follows two leaders who have been championing the immigrant health justice movement in the Golden State. Many short and feature films were screened in. Local film lovers were treated to a fresh selection of South Asian films at the 13th annual Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival hosted at Surrey City Hall and the Civic Hotel, which ran from Nov. We will review our national call to action and also will be screening the amazing film COVER/AGE followed by a small group discussion on Airmeet.Ī step-by-step guide to use Airmeet: For participantsįor years, advocates have been organizing to make healthcare access a right for all in California, regardless of their immigration status. Director Tarun Keram speaks about the screening of his newly released film. In honor of Latino/a/x Heritage Month, join LCAC19 on October 13th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for ¡Health Equity Ya! Film Screening & Community Conversation in celebration of our history.
*After the film, there will be a dialogue surrounding topics of the film facilitated by staff members of Trotter.¡Health Equity Ya! Film Screening & Community Conversation With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis. "The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. In partnership with the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center will be hosting a screening of Ava Duvernay's documentary 13th on Friday, November 4th at 6:00 pm in the lounge.įrom the official Netflix Youtube account: Come along to our screening of 13th, an eye-opening documentary by filmmaker Ava DuVernay who explores the history of racial inequality.