Put People First-PA End of Year Fundraising Drive

I am part of Put People First! PA. We are an organization of everyday people from across PA uniting to secure healthcare for ourselves and everyone else!   Our organization is 12 years old, and we are completely member-led and staff free.

I am a leader and co-coordinator of the Central Appalachia Healthcare Rights Committee, and an active member of our Base Building Team.  This organization is my family.  We unite across the lines of division implemented by the ruling class in this nation who are hurting our people.  We must unite to end this system that is killing 800 American's daily due to poverty as a result of their failed policies.

We’ve just completed a powerful year of organizing in the wake of the bi-partisan Medicaid purge that has resulted in more than 25 million Americans losing their healthcare since April 1, 2023 - including almost 900,000 here in Pennsylvania. Here are just 3 of our achievements and milestones from 2024:

• A bill to restore the adult dental benefit in Medicaid passed the PA House. We are advocating to make sure that working class people in our state can keep as many of their teeth as possible and get the dental care we all need and deserve.

• We hosted 50 leaders from 10 states in the Nonviolent Medicaid Army network we founded for an organizing exchange in the Central-Appalachia region that included People’s History, cultural sharing and training in base building and organizing conversations.

  • Teams of 10-15 leaders knocked doors and had hundreds of politically independent organizing conversations about the interconnected crises of health, housing and the economy across Washington, Cambria, Blair and Lawrence counties.

• We assisted people across Pennsylvania to appeal their Medicaid cut-offs. Our success rate in helping people keep their Medicaid is 93% compared to the state’s rate of less than 1%.

Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution in support of our proposal for a Public Healthcare Advocate in Pennsylvania!  

Only we can take back what has been taken from us, but we need your help to organize against what they don't want us to have, and that's solidarity and unification of the working poor and dispossessed.

We have nothing to lose, but EVERYTHING to gain, and your donations help those who are struggling, and builds the Non-Violent Medicaid Army.

FORWARD TOGETHER AND NOT ONE STEP BACK!