Agenda: 2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference
Friday, June 22 - Sunday, June 24
Minneapolis, MN
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Agenda for Friday, June 22
Registration Opens at 2:00PM
- Registration table in the foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown: 35 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
March for Guaranteed Healthcare, 4:00PM - 6:00PM
- March will begin outside the Radisson Blu Downtown Minneapolis, 35 S 7th St. RSVP on Facebook here.
Reception, 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- Hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and singing by Sharice McCain in the foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown: 35 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
Opening Plenary, 8:00PM - 9:00PM
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd floor, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- Call to Order and Call to Action for the Conference - Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, President, New York State Nurses Association
- Video: Victory at the AFL-CIO! The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.
- Why We Fight: Testimony from Patients Fighting Back. Ashlea Bassham, West Virginia teacher; Leslea Hodgson, Land Stewardship Project; Rebecca Wood, Healthcare-NOW Virginia; Christie Offenbacher, social worker and DSA.
- Keynote Speaker: Representative Keith Ellison, lead sponsor of the Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676
- Representative Pramila Jayapal, Washington
Agenda for Saturday, June 23
Continental Breakfast, Registration, Sharice McCain sings, 8:00AM - 9:00AM
Location: foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
Opening Remarks, Roundtable Discussions, 9:00AM - 10:30AM
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd floor, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- Call to Order: Chair - Katie Robbins, Campaign for New York Health and NYSNA
- Running on Medicare for All - Erin Murphy, DFL-endorsed candidate for Governor of Minnesota
- Our Political Moment & the Pathway to Victory, Michael Lighty
- Roundtable Discussions & Report Back
Workshop Block A, 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Location: Breakout room listed in parentheses for each workshop! "Norway" breakouts are on the 3rd floor, "Fjords" breakouts on the 2nd floor.
- Single Payer 101: Making the Case - Facilitator: Laurel Gamm, Minnesota PNHP (Scandinavian Ballroom)
- Building a Feminist, Multi-Racial, Pro-Immigrant Movement for Single Payer: Why and How? - Roona Ray, Campaign for New York Health; Tammy Rojas, Put People First! PA; Ursula Rozum, PNHP NY Metro; Megan Svoboda, Democratic Socialists of America Medicare for All Campaign; Laile Wilson, Put People First! PA. (Fjords 1)
- Taking on Big Pharma - Facilitator: Alex Lawson, Social Security Works; Brian Yablon, Minnesota PNHP; Justin Mendoza, Public Citizen (Fjords 2)
- Follow the Money: Big Money and the Politics of Healthcare Reform - Facilitator: Donna Smith, Progressive Democrats of America; Wendell Potter, whistleblower and tarbell.org; Jeff Clark, Move to Amend (Fjords 3)
- Building Rural Grassroots Power to Win Healthcare for All - Matthew Covington, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement; Mark Schultz, Minnesota Land Stewardship Program (Fjords 4)
- Building Solidarity: Bargaining Fights and Healthcare Justice - Facilitator: Peter Knowlton, President, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (Norway 1)
- Forging Partnerships with Workers' Centers and Other Non-Union Workers' Organizations - Ben Palmquist, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative; Tony Pecinovsky, St. Louis Workers' Education Society (Norway 2)
Lunch and Caucusing, 11:45AM - 1:00PM
Location: foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
Messaging and the Medicare-for-All Mid-Terms, 1:00PM - 2:20PM
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd floor, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- Crafting Our Message - Matt MacWilliams, founder of MacWilliams Sanders
- Panel: Medicare for All as a Political Campaign Theme - Facilitator: Donna Dewitt, former President South Carolina AFL-CIO; Amy Vilela, candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District; Randy Bryce, candidate for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District. Respondent: MN State Senator John Marty
Workshop Block B, 2:20PM - 3:35PM
Location: Breakout room listed in parentheses for each workshop! "Norway" breakouts are on the 3rd floor, "Fjords" breakouts on the 2nd floor.
- What Does Just Transition Look Like? - Facilitator: Mark Dudzic Labor Campaign for Single Payer; Marilyn Albert, National Union of Healthcare Workers; Eric Gonzalez, Washington State AFL-CIO (Fjords 1)
- Online Organizing for Medicare for All - Stephanie Nakajima, Healthcare-NOW (Fjords 2)
- Building a Feminist, Multi-Racial, Pro-Immigrant Movement for Single Payer: Why and How? - Ben Palmquist, NESRI; with Roona Ray, Campaign for New York Health; Tammy Rojas, Put People First! PA; Ursula Rozum, PNHP NY Metro; Megan Svoboda, Democratic Socialists of America Medicare for All Campaign; Laile Wilson, Put People First! PA. (Fjords 3)
- All About Grassroots Lobbying - Benjamin Day, Healthcare-NOW; Mark Privratsky, Minnesota Nurses Association (Fjords 4)
- Long Term Care, Disability Rights and the Single Payer Movement - Facilitator: Henry Moss, PNHP NY Metro Chapter; Susan Aarup, ADAPT and Illinois Single-Payer Coalition; Sumer Spika, SEIU Healthcare MN; Eagan Kemp, Public Citizen (Norway 1)
- Telling Your Healthcare Story - Geri Katz, Minnesota Nurses Association (Norway 2)
- State of the State-Based Single-Payer Legislative and Ballot Campaigns - Facilitator: Chuck Pennacchio, One Payer States (Norway 3)
Organizing for Medicare for All and the Rise of Incremental Alternatives, 3:35PM - 5:20PM
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd floor, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- Panel: Voices From the Grassroots - Facilitator: Marva Wade, NYSNA; Mary Beth Gagne, Maine AFL-CIO; Susan Aarup, ADAPT and Illinois Single-Payer Coalition; Dustin Guastella, Democratic Socialists of America; Mari Lopez, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
- On the Road to Medicare for All: Beware the Perils of Commercial Insurance - Diane Archer, Just Care
Off-the-Agenda Saturday Evening Events!
- 5:30-6:30PM: Break-out: Socialism and Single Payer - hosted by Democratic Socialists of America (Norway 2 breakout room)
- 7:00-9:00PM: Creative Strategies for Winning State Single Payer Campaigns - hosted by One Payer States (Norway 1 breakout room)
Agenda for Sunday, June 24
Continental breakfast, 8:00AM - 9:00AM
Location: foyer of the 3rd floor at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
A New Campaign for Medicare for All & Strategy Roundtables, 9:00AM-11:30AM
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd floor, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown
- The National Campaign to Win Medicare for All - Holly Miller, National Nurses United
- Bringing Big Organizing to the Single Payer Movement - Becky Bond, former senior advisor to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and co-author of Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything.
- Roundtable Discussions & Report Back
- This is What Victory Looks Like - Jose La Luz.