NESRI's Podcast

Episode 10: NESRI Interviews Christine Kaufmann on the Human Right to Health Care

NESRI — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:48:35 GMT

In August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, interviewed Christine Kaufmann, Montana State Senator and long-time Director of the Montana Human Rights Network, about her experience of developing Montana’s increasingly influential human right to health care campaign. In the interview Senator Kaufmann also argues that local and state-based activists need not wait for federal action on health care reform, reflects on her dual role as politician and advocate, and explains why politicians can be much more progressive if pushed by concerted pressure from the grassroots.

Episode 9: NESRI Interviews Alan Peura on the Human Right to Health Care

NESRI — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:16:25 GMT

This August, NESRI’s Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, visited our partner organization, the Montana Human Rights Network, which is based in Helena, Montana. Together, the Network and NESRI held a series of focus group discussions on community health needs in Lewis and Clark County. Last December, the county adopted a resolution declaring health care a human right and setting up a task force to identify ways for making access to health care universal. While in Montana Anja interviewed Alan Peura, the Helena City Commissioner who was instrumental in drafting the county’s right to health care resolution.

Episode 8: NESRI Interviews Sameer Dossani about Amnesty International's Health Care is a Human Right Work

NESRI — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:00:28 GMT

In an E-Alert released Friday, June 19, AI USA stated that current draft health care reform legislation falls far short of fulfilling a human rights vision. AI USA suggests that one reason for this is that single-payer advocates, a crucial human rights constituency, have been largely excluded from the reform process. Here NESRI’s Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger interviews Sameer Dossani, Campaign Director for Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity Campaign. She asks him about why Amnesty turned out in force to the Single Payer Right Now! Rally for the Right to Health Care on Friday, June 26th, in Washington DC.

Episode 7: Vermont Workers' Center's "Human Right to Healthcare" Rally - May 1, 2009

NESRI — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:46:55 GMT

On Friday, May 1, an estimated over 1000 people from across Vermont, including nurses and other healthcare workers, descended on the State Capital building in Montpelier for a "Healthcare is a Human Right" rally. The historic rally, organized by NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center, was aimed at changing not only what is "politically possible" with respect to healthcare reform, but at making the establishment of the human right to healthcare as a basic right "politically inescapable." Anja Rudiger, of the Human Right to Health Program at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), was there to document the historic event. This piece was produced by NESRI's Phil Wider and aired on Philadelphia's Labor Justice Radio (an initiative of the Media Mobilizing Project) May 2009 show.

Episode 6: Bernie Sanders Addresses Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Health Care Rally - May 1, 2009

NESRI — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:46:51 GMT

On Friday, May 1, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) addressed NESRI ally the Vermont Workers' Center's Human Right to Healthcare Rally at the State Capital in Montpelier, VT. Estimates are that over 1000 Vermonters turned out for the rally.

Episode 5: Cathy Albisa at Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting - March 28, 2009

NESRI — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:08:07 GMT

NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa presented on a panel entitled “Health Care is a Human Right: Realizing the Right to Health in the United States,” at Seizing the Moment, Building the Movement, the 2009 Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting.

Episode 4: Lucas Benitez of CIW at the United Nations - February 10, 2009

NESRI — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:08:04 GMT

Lucas Benitez of NESRI partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) presented at the United Nations’ launch of World Social Justice Day.

Episode 3: Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin at USHRF Convening Plenary - January 12, 2009

NESRI — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:31:38 GMT

Cathy Albisa and Maisie Chin address the Opening Plenary of the US Human Rights Fund Convening. The plenary was entitled "Strategy for Social Change: Success Stories, Challenges & Cautionary Tales."

Photo taken by Jim Belfon.

Episode 2: Human Right To Housing Program Speaks at Poverty Initiative Immersion Course - January 7, 2009

NESRI — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:04:49 GMT

NESRI Human Right to Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner and John Derek Norvell of Concerned Citizens of Greater Harlem presented on a panel entitled "Poverty Scholars and Religious Leaders Roundtable" at the January 2009 Immersion Course of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary.

Episode 1: “Economic and Social Rights Under a New Administration”

NESRI — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:36:23 GMT

A special evening with Dr. Paul Farmer, founding NESRI Board Member, Co-Founder of Partners In Health, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner, human rights activist, and subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. You will hear from Dr. Farmer and our staff about how we are working with our partners and networks to shape their agendas and hopes in the face of a new administration.