FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 30, 2024
Media Contact: Melissa Garriga | [email protected]
U.S. Healthcare Provider Starts Hunger Strike Outside White House; Demands End to U.S. Supported Genocide
"At this point, silence is complicity"
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, May 30th, healthcare provider and New York state resident Jennifer began a hunger strike outside the White House.
"As a healthcare worker who has dedicated my life to public service and caring for the most vulnerable, my heart has been broken every single day seeing massacre after massacre. The immeasurable trauma that children in Gaza are experiencing is horrifying and completely unjustifiable. Children's brains and bodies are fragile and still growing, and they are being starved, bombed, and traumatized beyond belief."
The Biden administration continues to write a blank check for a genocidal state to carry out mass murder every single day while Americans at home suffer from poverty, homelessness, poor health care, student loan debt, and a crumbling infrastructure.
The vindictive cruelty that has been unleashed on healthcare facilities and healthcare workers trying to care for the victims of this U.S./Israeli genocide is sickening. Over 500 healthcare workers have been killed so far. They have been bombed, kidnapped, tortured and executed.
Eight months into this genocide, the barbarity only continues to escalate. That's why Jennifer has felt the need to embark on this hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza. The bravery, courage, and dedication of the healthcare workers in Gaza trying to care for their people is beyond admirable. In retrospect, the silence from U.S. healthcare workers who swore to "do no harm" is despicable.
Jennifer asks all healthcare providers, medical organizations, and schools, "Where are you? Will you continue to sit in silence as your colleagues abroad get massacred? As hospitals get bombed? As critically injured patients continue to be forced to relocate over and over again? As health workers are forced to treat patients on dirty floors with no supplies? As children are undergoing limb amputations and women are undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia?"
"At this point, silence is complicity," she continued. "As a healthcare worker, I say stop the genocide. Fund healthcare. Choose life."
Jennifer will be outside the White House everyday from 1 pm to 7 pm ET. For more information or to schedule interviews, please contact Melissa at [email protected].
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