Florida has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 3.7 million cases and more than 62,000 deaths related to the disease. We discuss how Florida residents can support one another through this ongoing crisis and ways that we can get involved locally to build support for Medicare for All, including how to pass city and county council resolutions.

Speakers include:

Representative Frederica Wilson, FL-24 on how COVID-19 ravaging the state has further made the case for Medicare for All, why she is a cosponsor of HR 1976 - The Medicare for All Act of 2021

Stephan Ramdohr, Florida Medicare for All Organizing Committee

Leo Alonso, emergency medicine physician from Jacksonville / Florida Physicians for a National Health Program

Lynn Unruh, health economist at the University of Central Florida, how Medicare for All will save money while covering everyone

Ronda Wallace, Statewide Community Action Team Manager, Florida Rising

Brittany Shannahan, Public Citizen and Medicare for All Resolutions

Rev. Bob Murphy, Unitarian Universalist minister from Saint Petersburg, board member of UUJEC

Lorenzo Canizares, Labor Community Alliance of South Florida

Linda Joseph, labor leader with SEIU and organizer with Fight for $15 in Florida

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