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- Medical Professionals Challenge Mayor Emanuel to End Hunger Strike
- Concerned about the health and well-being of the 12 hunger strikers advocating for the Dyett Global Leadership and Green Technology High School, health professionals from across Chicago have signed onto a letter urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to take immediate action to end the hunger strike. To date, two of the strikers have been hospitalized, one has required emergency medical attention, and given their progressed state, it is only a matter of time before all of them will require hospitalization. As a looming public health crisis, swift action is required to avert this calamity. People’s lives are at stake, and a compassionate heart will allow the right thing to happen; and entertaining their grievances and accepting their proposal is the right thing.
- WHERE: City Hall, 5th Floor
- WHEN: Thursday, August 27, 2015
- 10 AM
- WHO: Dr. Linda Rae Murray: chief medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health of the Cook County Health
- and Hospital System; adjunct assistant professor at the UIC School of Public Health; former bureau chief for the
- Chicago Department of Health under former Mayor Harold Washington; and past president of the American Public Health
- Association
- Erin Raether: RN, Nurses for Social Justice
- Susan Avila: RN, MPH
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- August 24, 2015
- We are physicians, nurses and other health care professionals working in the City of Chicago. Many of us have visited the hunger strikers camped outside of Dyett High School for nearly a week.
- We write to you to express our support for the just cause around which our fellow Chicagoans have rallied, and to register deep concern as medical professionals about the deteriorating state of their health as individuals. As you must know, the longer this protest continues, each of the twelve hunger strikers is vulnerable to a variety of conditions that compromise their overall well-being and may result in permanent damage to their health. None of us want this. We trust you share our deep concern about this very serious situation.
- The parents and grandparents, friends and relatives of Dyett students have turned to this tactic as a last resort. We implore you to hear their concerns and give serious consideration to their proposal to preserve the integrity of Dyett High School as a public, open-enrollment high school in the heart of the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. They have a proposal on the table for the Dyett High School of Global Leadership and Green Technology. We urge you to accept it.
- We consider the current situation to be a deepening health care emergency in our city. It is one that you can abate by reaching out to the strikers, entertaining their grievances and accepting their proposal.
- Please exert your leadership and demonstrate your compassion by intervening in what is an increasingly dangerous health emergency. As doctors and nurses who have treated gun shot victims, terminally ill patients, and even children who we have lost all too soon to injury and disease, we feel we have to speak out as loudly as possible in this instance where the health of community leaders is at stake and further damage to their health is preventable. This is a serious situation. Please intervene now. We are counting on you to do the right thing.
- Sincerely,
- Linda Rae Murray, MD
- Susan Avila RN
- Peter Orris MD MPH
- Rachel Rubin MD MPH
- Peter Sporn MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
- Richard Stephenson MD
- Susan Rogers MD
- Cynthia Henderson MD MPH
- Peter Drapper MD
- Bob Cohen, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and UIC School of Public Health.
- Arsh Kaur Dhaliwal MD
- Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD Nurses for Social Justice and Clinical Associate Professor, College of Nursing at University of Illinois @ Chicago
- Erin Raether, RN - Nurses for Social Justice, Chicago Healing Justice Network
- Deborah Sontag, Family Nurse Practitioner
- Ruth Oppenheim-Rothschild, RN Nurses for Social Justice
- Wendy Mironov, RN, NSJ
- Mary Bowm, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC
- National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
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- In the News:
- 8/26/15: Dyett hunger-strikers vow to continue fight
- http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/909426/dyett-hunger-strikers-vow-continue-fight
- 8/26/15: Teachers, Parents Rail Against CPS Budget, Dyett Hunger Striker Collapses
- https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150826/loop/teachers-parents-rail-against-cps-budget
- 8/26/15: In Chicago, hunger strikers fight for a high school
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-chicago-hunger-strikers-fight-for-a-high-school/2015/08/26/100c4832-4c13-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html
- 8/26/2015: Hospitalized Dyett Activist Returns to Continue Hunger Strike for 10th Day
- https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150826/grand-boulevard/hospitalized-dyett-activist-returns-continue-hunger-strike-for-10th-day
- 8/26/2015: Chicago Ald. Ramirez-Rosa Supports Dyett Hunger Strikers
- http://progressillinois.com/news/content/2015/08/26/chicago-ald-ramirez-rosa-supports-dyett-hunger-strikers
- 8/25/2015: Parents Starve Themselves To Protest Rahm Emanuel’s School Policies
- http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/25/parents-starve-themselves-to-protest-rahm-emanuels-school-policies/#ixzz3k1R3EyVM
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