Jonathan B. Robison

Come See! Come Hear! Come Honor!
Surgeon Dr. Gino Strada of EMERGENCY
OCTOBER 30, 6 PM NAPOLI RESTAURANT
Route 51 – 3 1/2 miles south of the Liberty Tubes 412-884-4899
Dinner Tickets $100
USA Chapter 10592 Perry Highway #112 Wexford, PA 15090
Tel. 724-316-0958, e-mail to info@emergencyusa.org
Checks can be made Payable to: EMERGENCY
Donations online can be made by PayPal at: http://www.emergencyusa.org
Dr. Gino Strada, Nobel Peace Prize nominee will talk about his experience as a war surgeon. TIME called him one of the top 10 most innovative humanitarians — and you’ll see why. Outstanding documentation will accompany his presentation.
Dr. Strada is co-founder of EMERGENCY, an independent, non-profit, neutral and non-political humanitarian organization based in Italy.
Most of the victims of war are civilians; more than a third are children. EMERGENCY is dedicated to saving them. Emergency operates Surgical Medical and Rehabilitation centers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan. Emergency even treated patients in a hospital in Baghdad while it was under bombardment.
All proceeds from this event will help to purchase an ambulance for the Emergency Pediatric Outpatient Center serving the Refugee Camp of Mayo, Karthoum, Sudan.
Dr. Strada will address his concerns about health as a universal human right in war-torn countries and in the world. War Medicine, the rationing of care, is a reality for many people, not just the civilian victims of war. While billions have no access to quality medical care worldwide, millions have no health insurance in developed countries. Although explicitly addressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, quality health care is a largely unattained goal for the majority of the people worldwide.
Organizing Committee for this event is Alberto Colombi and Ed Ricci, Friends of Emergency, Pittsburgh; John DeFazio, Director –Pennsylvania United Steel Workers/Allegheny and County Council at large; Maria Pisano; Atty. Jonathan Robison, Oakland Community Council; Molly Rush, PUSH- Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Health Care; and Kathleen Hower, Executive Director-Global Links, Pittsburgh.
Support EMERGENCY – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Sudan …
Just Health: - Taking care of the victims – war zone by war zone

We are confident that New Orleans will be rebuilt – but by whom? More important, for whom?
We can be philosophical about Halliburton and friends acting swiftly and efficiently to loot the public treasury again. But we cannot accept New Orleans being rebuilt as a theme park, with liberty and condominiums for all – all those with money to spare. We cannot accept this as a divine form of urban renewal. One Republican legislator said that God had gotten rid of public housing when the government couldn’t. We cannot accept this.
The people of New Orleans, mostly non-white, mostly poor, have a “right of return.” There must be affordable housing to replace the housing destroyed or irreparable damaged by Katherine.
This struggle may begin in a neighborhood called Tremé. Tremé is mostly poor and Black – according to the census, 44% of its residents survive on less than $10,000 per year. But Tremé is prime real estate, sandwiched between the French Quarter and Interstate 10. Tremé was one of the first neighborhoods settled by “free” Blacks before the Civil War, It was the traditional terminus of funeral processions, with bands that played sad spirituals on the way to the cemetery and hot jazz afterwards. It was home to the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, which desegregated the Mardi Grass in 1968. Will urban removal and gentrification eliminate poor people?
We would like to share the words of novelist Anne Rice, author of Interview with a Vampire.
“But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us “Sin City,” and turned your backs. Well, we are a lot more than all that. And though we may seem the most exotic, the most atmospheric and, at times, the most downtrodden part of this land, we are still part of it. We are Americans. We are you.” Please click here for her complete remarks.