Washington, D.C. — With simply over per week to go, organizers and individuals are making ready for the March for Well being & Science. A rising coalition of well being, science, and democracy teams will march to the Division of Well being and Human Providers to demand the removing of Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The March For Well being & Science will start at 3:30 PM EST on November fifth instantly following the American Public Well being Affiliation (APHA) Rally. The coalition and its allies will march throughout the Nationwide Mall and over to the Division of Well being and Human Providers (200 Independence Ave SW).
The coalition behind the March for Well being & Science continues to increase, with The Committee to Shield Well being Care and MoveOn Civic Motion becoming a member of as its latest companions. The group joins a rising listing of organizations with a unified message: Secretary Kennedy has undermined public well being establishments, endangered lives, and eroded public belief –he’s a public well being menace.
Kennedy is dismantling America’s public well being infrastructure and destroying our public well being protections, experience, analysis, information, and safeguards,” stated Suparna Reddy, Senior Counsel at Free Speech For Individuals. “He exhibits full disregard for science and for the precise lives jeopardized by his actions. Congress should act to stop additional injury to our public well being system by impeaching and eradicating Kennedy from workplace.
The coalition can even ship over 100,000 signatures from eight petitions –organized by Stand Up For Science, Physicians for a Wholesome Democracy, Nurses for America, The Accountability Journalism Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board, Free Speech For Individuals, Science Accountability Institute, MoveOn Civic Motion, and The Committee to Shield Healthcare –demand not solely Kennedy’s removing but additionally name for bipartisan Congressional motion to reverse his dangerous insurance policies and price range cuts. The supply of the signatures will happen when the Home is again in session.
Put merely, RFK Jr. isn’t certified to handle HHS and we’re seeing–and can proceed to see–the results of his lack of know-how within the type of lack of life. Kennedy, supported by Congress, is taking aside profitable public well being coverage and applications which have saved tens of millions of lives. These adjustments will not make America wholesome once more, they are going to end in preventable deaths. Kennedy should be eliminated, says Colette Delawalla, Founder and Govt Director of Stand Up for Science.
The petitions name on Congress to:
Take away Robert Kennedy Jr. as Well being and Human Providers Secretary.
Reverse the dangerous adjustments Kennedy has made to America’s crucial public well being establishments:
Restoring accountability and experience in management.
Adhering to the perfect obtainable science in coverage selections.
Restoration of federal public well being information assortment.
Resumption of funding for science and well being.
Ending political litmus exams for science.
Coalition member organizations can be found for touch upon the file earlier than, throughout, and after the march.
