Past Events

Below you will find some of our chapter's featured past events and activities!
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Caring Majority’s Care Not Corruption Campaign Launch
December 10th & 11th, 2025

✅ End the PPL monopoly and restore choice to CDPAP by reinstating trusted fiscal intermediaries. (S1189/A2735 or A8355/S7945)
✅ Pass the Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act (S2332/A2018) to eliminate private insurance middlemen and reinvest savings directly into home care wages and care.
✅ Pass the Fair Pay for Home Care Act so that workers can earn a dignified living, alleviating New York’s home care shortage so people can receive the home care they deserve (A1991)
✅ Make the wealthy pay their fair share to invest in our care and prevent Medicaid cuts.

December Mixer & Potluck Dinner with PNHP NY Metro
December 2, 2025

World AIDS Day Reading of the Names, March and Vigil
December 1, 2025

Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid
Thursday, November 20, 2025

NO MORE CRUMBS! Rally and March for Food, Housing, and Healthcare for All NOW!
Friday, November 21, 2025

Labor Notes' Secrets of a Successful Organizer Training - In Person - Hosted by MORE UFT
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Book Talk with Karen Malpede moderated by Rita Charon
Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

National PNHP Annual Meeting & SNaHP Summit
Medicare for All Rally at the Capitol
Saturday, November 1st - Monday November 3rd, 2025

Hochuls Pocus #PassNYHealth
Friday, October 31, 2025

Fight the Cuts: Bronx Healthcare Forum
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Disability Pride Parade BLOCK PARTY in Union Square
Sunday, October 19 - Union Square NYC

NO KINGS 2 March: Healthcare Bloc
Saturday, October 18 - NYC

NYC Healthcare Town Hall
Sunday, October 5, 2025, West Village NYC

Speak Out for a Special Session to #PassNYHealth
Tuesday, September 30 @ Noon In-Person NYC

Speaker Training for Single Payer Advocacy
Saturday, September 27

Explanation of Benefits Musical
Sunday, September 21, 2025

With a cast of research-minded musical theatre performers leading the way, Explanation of Benefits is info-tainment at its finest – exploring how the hell we got into this mess and how you can defend yourself in the wild, wild west that is health insurance.

Health Justice Potluck Picnic
Sunday, September 21, 2025

NY Health Act Teach-In & Short Film Screening: HEALTHCARE CONSPIRACY
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Bronx Healthcare Town Hall
Saturday, September 13, 2025

2025 NYC Labor Day March:
Get the Word Out About The New York Health Act
Saturday, September 6, 2025

They Cut Medicaid, What Now? Virtual Healthcare Town Hall
Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

60th Anniversary of Medicaid & Medicare - Fight for Life & the Future
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Good Trouble Lives on HEALTHCARE BLOC
Thursday, July 17, 2025

NYC PRIDE 2025 Healthcare Contingent
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Annual Benefit Celebrating Single Payer Champions
Monday, June 23, 2025

Bronx Healthcare Town Hall
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025

NYC NO KINGS MARCH HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Author Reading of Exquisite Moments of Sorrow and Grace
with Kenneth Weinberg, MD
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

NYC Day of Action for Single Payer Rally for Medicare for All & The New York Health Act
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Radio Kingston: Planet Seniors 1st program in a series focused on the NY Health Act, hosted by Rita Vanacore - LISTEN HERE
May 26, 2025

Health Justice Potluck Picnic Spring 2025
May 18, 2025

Healthcare Storytelling for Advocacy Workshop
May 13, 2025

MAY DAY NYC
HEALTHCARE BLOC @
RALLY & MARCH TO STOP THE
BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER
May 1, 2025

HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT to Rally & March with mass May Day mobilization of unions and community organizations in Foley Square to fight back against the billionaire takeover.

View Dr. Roona Ray's speech here:

MAY DAY NYC
Rally at City Hall with the
Coalition to Fight for our Health and Lives
May 1, 2025

Ain't I A Woman & the Coalition to Fight for our Health and Lives in calling on City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to 1. Abolish the 24-hour workday 2. Fight for quality healthcare for all 3. Stop displacement.

Medical Student Workshop
Building Power Under Trump
Monday April 28

Reimagining Healthcare:
The NY Health Act &
The Movement for Universal Healthcare
Cornell, Ithaca Monday, April 21, 2025

Union 101 with CIR SEIU
Tuesday, April 22nd
Union 101 with CIR SEIU workshop for medical students and residents, hosted by NYC Against Segregated Healthcare (NYCASH) & Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP).

STATEN ISLAND RALLY & MARCH:
Don't Take Away Our Health Care
to Give Billionaires Tax Cuts!
Tuesday, April 15

KILL THE CUTS
NYC HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT
April 8, 2025

HANDS OFF MOBILIZATION
NYC HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT
April 5, 2025

STOP THE CUTS
NYC HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT
March 15, 2025

Healthcare Worker, Resident, Student & Advocate
Lobby Day to #PassNYHealth!
March 18 2025

Cosponsoring Organizations:

ACT UP
Ancient Song Doula Services
Caring Majority Rising
Citizen Action
Community Service Society of New York
Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC)
Doctors Council SEIU
For The Many
Green Party of New York
Hudson Valley Demands NY Health
Indivisible Brooklyn
Indivisible: CCoHope Indivisible
Indivisible: Northwest Bronx Indivisible
Indivisible: NYCD15/16-Indivisible
Indivisible Ulster 18/19
Long Island DSA
Medical Students for Choice
Metro New York Healthcare for All Campaign
National Association of Social Workers NYS/NYC
New York Doctors Coalition
New York Progressive Action Network
New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
New York State Academy of Family Physicians
NYC Against Segregated Care (NYCASH)
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter
Rank+File4NYHealth
Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore
South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship, and Training, Inc
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)
SUNY Empire State University Student Government Association
Ulster Activists

HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT at the March To Stop The Cuts!
March 15 2025

We say:

Healthcare should be provided as a human right for all, regardless of citizenship, employment, gender, age, health, care needs, ability to pay, or any other status.
NO CUTS to working people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations
NO CUTS to our public healthcare programs Medicare & Medicaid
NO CUTS to USAID, HHS, CDC, PEPFAR, NIH, FDA
NO CUTS to gender-affirming care, immigrant care, disability care, accessibility, research, or diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives

Washington DC Mobilization To Save Healthcare
March 12 2025

Rally to Defend Medicaid and HIV Services in Staten Island
March 6 2025

Housing Works, Make the Road NY, Physicians for a National Health Program, and other healthcare allies to rallied in Staten Island to defend Medicaid and HIV services. After committing to opposing cuts to Medicaid and HIV services, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis voted for a budget proposal that makes significant and deadly cuts to the program.

Speakout For People Harmed & Killed By Insurance Industry Greed
FEBRUARY 21 2025

NYC Premiere Screening of Mockumentary Short Film
HEALTHCARE CONSPIRACY & New York Health Act Panel Discussion
FEBRUARY 19 2025

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

NYS Senator Gustavo Rivera, NYS Senate Health Committee Chair, Lead NYS Senate sponsor of the NY Health Act
Rich Hollman, writer & lead actor, SAG-AFTRA & Actors Equity Association member

MODERATOR:

Nicolas Shearman, DC 37 Member, Rank+File4NYHealth co-leader

FREE ADMISSION, NO RESERVATIONS: first-come, first-seated.
Wheelchair accessible.
Masks are encouraged & will be provided.

Hosted By: Rank+File4NYHealth | Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro | MORE UFT | Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC NYC)

For updates on this or future screenings, or to host a screening & panel discussion for your community, union local or other group, complete the form bit.ly/ConspiracyScreenings or contact [email protected] for more info.

RALLY FOR THE NEW YORK HEALTH ACT
JANUARY 14, 2025 - View photos here.

Resolution Writing Workshop
December 2, 2024

Bronx New York Health Act Town Hall
September 21, 2024

COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: NY SOCIAL JUSTICE & MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 14, 2024

2024 NYC Labor Day Parade NY Health Act Canvass
September 7, 2024

Invite Graphic for the 2024 Labor Day Parade NYHA Canvass with title, date & sign up info & illustrated hand raised in a fist

2024 Pride Queer Liberation March Healthcare Justice Contingent
Sunday June 30, 2024

2024 Benefit Celebrating Single Payer Champions
Thursday June 13, 2024

Health Justice Spring Potluck Picnic
Saturday May 11, 2024

Photo taken from the ground with grass & flowers towering all around reaching up into a blue sky with bright sun with picnic title, date & info overlayed onto it.

Westchester County Town Hall on Health Care & The New York Health Act
Saturday April 27, 2024

Panel:

New York State Senator Shelley Mayer, SD 37
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, Past President of NY State Nurses Association
Richard Gottfried, Retired Assembly Health Committee Chair, lead sponsor & author of the NY Health Act
Betsy Rosenthal, MD, Retired Dermatologist, PNHP NY Metro Board Member

2024 Lobby Day to #PassNYHealth