Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity Lessons from Social Movements: Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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5 Lessons from Social Movements Beyond Health
5 Lessons from Social Movements Beyond Health
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COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION Karoleen Feng, community development manager for the Mission Economic Development Association (MEDA) ,1 described MEDA as an organization that for nearly 40 years has worked to achieve economic justice for the low- and moderate-income Latino residents of San Francisco's Mission District.
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. In addition to poverty and health, other challenges Mission District residents face, Feng observed, including low academic achievement and limited access to technology.
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Feng also described the MPN mission statement that explains the strategy for reaching the vision: The Mission Promise Neighborhood links family economic security with student academic achievement. It creates a comprehensive, integrated framework of evidence-based services that responds to urgent needs and builds on the foundation of student, family, community, and school strengths and assets.
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MPN "Wheel of Promise" 48 FIGURE 5-1 Mission Promise Neighborhood "wheel of promise" strategic framework. SOURCE: Feng presentation, December 5, 2013.
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TACKLING HEALTH INEQUITY BY BUILDING DEMOCRACY Doran Schrantz, executive director of ISAIAH,4 described her Minnesota-based organization as a "faith-based community organization of 100 member congregations" and "a vehicle for people of faith to act collectively and powerfully for racial and economic justice." ISAIAH is also affiliated with a national network of organizations involved with racial, economic, and social justice called People Improving Communities through Organizing (PICO)
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"People can impact the conditions in which they live if they have the capacity to act on those conditions." Although social movements do not just happen, as Polletta noted, Schrantz observed that the mobilization of people to act -- the building of democratic self-governance -- requires difficult and skilled work that often remains invisible. Every grassroots protest, demonstration, or march involves, she said, "months and months of infrastructure building, months of leadership development, months of strategy conversations." Organizing requires a great deal of training, a unique set of skills, and experience.
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These changes in leadership and the subsequent expansion of its coalition changed the coalition and in many ways transformed PSR–LA, Argüello said. It was PSR–LA's work with the coalition that led to the development of PSR–LA environmental health programs addressing air quality, land use, and toxic chemicals.
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For example, when residents in south Los Angeles discovered a lead hazard site in their midst, they knew from prior experience to contact Argüello, who was able to provide expert help to the community. Those informed and engaged residents, she said, are "really good organizers." Although PSR–LA does not usually work on soil contamination issues, their network of relationships with, science, policy, and community organizing groups, called on them to help support local efforts to demand clean-up and redevelopment of the site.
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To pay homage to the history of the Republican Party's longstanding support for civil rights, the group chose a name associated with the party's first president, Abraham Lincoln. The Log Cabin Republicans have since federated and are headquartered in Washington, DC, with 39 chapters in 24 states.
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"Just in the past year that I've been head of Log Cabin Republicans, we have had three sitting United States Republican senators announce support for civil marriage quality," he said. "We had 10 Republicans in the United States Senate vote for the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.
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Boehner said that Republicans should support openly gay Republicans who are running for the United States Congress." These are the moments that make his work worthwhile, he said. PANEL DISCUSSION George Isham asked Feng about the role of health in the "wheel of promise" framework for MPN (shown in Figure 5-1)
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. engage with Republicans who do health care advocacy." Karen Anderson, an IOM staff member, noted that both ISAIAH and the Log Cabin Republicans do "movement work within movements" -- promoting social justice within the faith community for the one, and promoting LGBT issues within the Republican Party for the other.
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