networks. the majority of americans believe in it, believe these things should be prioritized and funded. too bold.k these are i give them the story of congresswoman shirley these are old, and they always tell them the story of shirley chisholm, who said kids who are hungry cannot learn. we have free lunches for kids in school and we can't imagine not having free lunches for kids in school today. worry about quality because the quality is getting worse, folks. i thought it was bad when i was a kid. have ant is we responsibility i think to recognizing there is a crisis and childcare is a crisis. health care is a crisis. until we do that, we are never going to be able to resolve it.

this is a good story -- march reading month i have a lot of schools, so we go into april and so forth. i go into second and third grade classes and read. the kids get excited. i show them where i work. or i read the legend of mackinac island. kids, am done i asked the do you know what a member of congress does? someone mentioned the president or washington, d.c. or something. also, how many of you have had asthma? 1/3 of the class will raise their hand, no matter where i am at. nott now wayne county is complying with sulfur dioxide levels. i tell them one of the things i work on is making sure we have clean air because we cannot

eject it out. maybe can do that with water. was youre kids, when i age we used to go to restaurants all the time. you know how you go with your parents, and they would nod their heads. they will ask you how many people in your party? you know what they used asked me when i was a little girl? they would ask, smoking or non-smoking section? they used to smoke at restaurants. they are like, nuh-uh. and airplanes. they are like, no way! and hospitals. what? years before, we knew secondhand smoking was killing people. it was worse than actually smoking cigarettes. corporations gas lighted us, toe -- businesses are going shut down, casinos. we can still make a smoking ban

by the way. god, it will be awful. no, no. -- you not imagine having can you imagine not having the smoking ban? you all know because you have asthma, it is so bad outside you cannot go to school because of the asthma attack. we have got to do something about these kind of crises. i tell you these stories because it is going to be a hard fight. it is going to take us a while to get this win, but we are going to win and hold the administration accountable. [applause] >> we are incredibly lucky to have rashida and congress fighting for these issues. what i think is more incredible on the groundlks

right now fighting to make sure situations like you are and where you have a 10-month-old child and a dad with a disability, and we can take care of them. --ks on the panel, however how many know what the caring coalition is? the caring majority coalition is a group of organizers who are fighting to make sure that the federal government and state government here in michigan are going to do the research, the investment, to look at how we actually address this issue because it is a crisis, as the congresswoman said. we have folks from mothering justice and michigan united at the forefront of this caring majority coalition. if one representative from each of that can just quickly speak up on what the work is you are doing and how people in this crowd can get involved in that caring majority coalition work.

any of our panelists? >> for the caring majority on our end, what we're doing as a team is formulating panels and speaking and having conversations with legislators about the medicare expansion. people in the state of michigan who have children that need these extra dollars so you can continue to work so you can pay someone to come in who was qualified, certified, to care for your loved ones, this is what we are trying to bring to their attention. we are fighting hard, talking hard and we will not give up. we know how important it is to have this money, this program expanded, to have these dollars put in place to make sure the money is thre -- there. this is what we're doing with the caring majority.

>> on behalf of michigan united and the caring majority, we are holding listening sessions for people to share their stories. we are focusing on the 2020 election and we want to ask those candidates, what is your platform? ?re you going to stand with us specific question of what we are not getting now and can you help move it along? we have the kick off in june. we will do this all the way until december. if you want to do it, you're invited to come out, share your story. we have conference calls where you can join in. this is what we are talking about.

exhibit, 30 home care workers shared their .tories they are putting together a traveling exhibit of women and men who have shared their stories about what home care workers go through daily and the struggles are hard. definitely get involved. it is not just home care workers. this is for everybody, the community as a whole to share your story. be as specific with the candidates and elect the candidate that will take care of our issues. >> good afternoon everybody. ready.fired up and 24 at mary grove

college at 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 we have our mothers summit. we want to come up with a solution. we talk about paid sick leave. leave, butid sick affordable childcare. we are stepping up, stepping out and we will have a voice on august 24. mark your calendars. come out and support us. not just support us. tell a friend and bring a friend. that is what mother justice is doing. i can just say i am still fairly new to working with the mother and justice. my introduction to what they do was called a mama conversation. an invitation to discuss a particular issue. whichcuss snap benefits,

is a food access issue. was enough toion enlighten me about the other work they do in terms of training mothers, educating, mobilizing, and enough for me to say i want to go further and see what i can do to contribute to that work and here we are. >> wow. [applause] >> one more thing. >> do you have to be a mother to come to the mother conference on august when he for? 24.ugust >> we are on facebook, twitter. up, sayingding mothering justice is not backing down. we are coming to washington, d.c. very soon. we are not backing down.

>> do you have to be a mother? senator camilla harris come.ala harris to no, they have a strong presence already in washington, d.c. [applause] ,> thank you, mothering justice for uplifting the incredible work you are doing. from 9:00 to 4:00 at mary grove college. it is completely free and you do not have to be a mother, i believe. if you are an ally, you can come. i will be there. i expect all of you to show up mama summit. we are going to take several more questions. andll go two from this side

two from this side. i am very concerned about what is going on on capitol hill with the current administration, where they are chiseling very slowly at the affordable care act. that is causing millions of people, probably 30 million people, they said 20 million thatpast february 2019, people had lost their insurance. now the federal court judge in texas is saying the affordable care act is unconstitutional. andcurrent administration the federal court judges across the nation and in various states are working to eliminate the affordable care act, which leaves a lot of people who are seriously ill, unable to be treated for their illnesses, uninsured and no insurance

whatsoever. i do not know what the democratic party as far as legislators in the u.s. senate, i do not know what they plan to do, but we need to work harder to make sure each and everyone in this country will have health insurance like other places abroad who have insurance for all. dental insurance. people are dying. on that note i want to say september 14 i am having a medical forum talking about the disparity for people of color not getting the insurance they need, the care they need. my son is dead right now because of what happened to him at a hospital and clinic. keep in mind it is all about saving lives. we need to come together and not be separate. no manny -- no matter how many

organizations are out here. i am asking for you all to come to harper church september 14, reclaim your right to health. thank you so much. [applause] >> i will come back to this side, i promise. we have a spanish speaker who wants to ask a question. i will have her ask her question in spanish. we do have a translator to translate the spent -- translate. >> tell us your name. >> rosa. [speaking spanish]

>> she was saying her mother is diabetic. she is an undocumented immigrant and only has emergency medicaid because she is undocumented. emergency medicaid does not cover her insulin. she has to pay out-of-pocket, which is very expensive. sometimes she cries because it is out of control and she cannot afford to pay for her insulin. the question is, this bill being drafted, will it cover women like her mother and other undocumented immigrants that have health problems? unfortunately we do have a broken immigration system where we have neighbors right now line.it is -- there is no i was an immigration lawyer for a couple years and i would have

the same circumstances, completely different outcomes. we need to fix our immigration system because someone like your mother will still not have access to health care until we can create a pathway for citizenship. many of them have relatives that are u.s. citizens that can apply for them, but they cannot adjust their status here. we have children where this is all they know and they need access to a pathway to citizenship. there are you extremely generous people who may be able to help your mother and we can reach out to them. either private individuals who may be able to help you get the care you need, but i think all of us in this room need to understand yes, we talk about a humane health care system, but i can tell you i just came from calhoun county yesterday. our system is so deteriorated we are violating international human rights.

woman claiming to be a u.s. citizen slept on the floor for three days next to a toilet in an overcrowded cell right here in michigan. we have a huge crisis with regard to our immigration system. enforcement is not fixing it. it needs to stop. we need to have a pathway especially. so many of our neighbors are married to u.s. citizens or have a green card family member. we have children not able to get into the pathway because they did not have the right lawyer. thinkhey get in line they -- there is no line. you should not have to wait years to get in front of an immigration judge. you should not have to wait 20 years. there are cases in 20 years before you can be reunited with your u.s. citizen brother or sister. that is the reality, that we

have a system that has not had an overhaul. approach, theyy want to dehumanize and it has gotten worse with this administration, the leadership instead they crated i.c.e. i.c.e. did not make us safer. creating checkpoints in southwest detroit on michigan avenue, i.c.e. operations in front of schools, which is against their own rules, they need to pull back completely, be abolished. we do not need another lay are of militarization of our communities. [applause] fact that we do have a system. borderd to agents, patrol, field agents, i.c.e. agents. i will say the system is broken. they say, absolutely. many of them tell me we were not hired, trained, to deal with

this deterioration of a system. throwing money is not going to fix it. you, the people that benefit the most by our broken immigration system are the same that benefit from most of our health system that is broken. off of workers in the shadows, the fact that even henry ford used to go to the border. it never matched up to the demand for our country. this is something we all need to realize. yesterday talking to four individuals in calhoun county i realized how dehumanizing it has unbearable. i felt so exhausted hearing from a woman who was trafficked between the age of 10 and 12. a survivor of human trafficking

held in detention. crying and tears, being separated from her six-year-old daughter. until we can fix it, we can never take care of her mother. them make our this is a look like system that if you do not neighborhoods completely turned into chaos. i appreciate your courage for speaking up. please come talk to me afterwards and i will do my best to find someone who will help your mother get access to her insulin. [applause] >> i feel like this is the best time to ask this question.

i do not know when we will see each other again. i am here every week. questions.wo how do you feel about mass incarceration? especially on people of color? had that be -- had that been brought up in congress to slow down mass incarceration? people get detained from being in another country. i know so money people are detained for senseless things that was not worth it or placed in a virtual world of not being able to get health care, affordable housing. i wonder if congress is working on that. i am very muchou

against and have supported initiatives to give no more private prisons in our country. there should not be a for-profit scheme. the same people detaining immigrants at the border, the same people incarcerating people, the same broken system of mass incarceration. we saw it yesterday. the same for-profit industries are benefiting the most from mass incarceration. when folks tell me about facial recognition in downtown detroit and all over the neighborhoods, they want more surveillance. by the way, facial recognition is flawed. we introduced a ban on facial recognition. no federal funding for that. [applause] money for using this for-profit companies coming to test this stuff in our communities of color -- that is exactly what they are doing.

rate on peopler of color, especially african-american women. facebook photo, your dmv records, all of it in a database, a for-profit entity, coming to the city of detroit saying, we want to put this in, help decrease crime. even the greenlight program in detroit has not decreased crime. instead of spending money, it it should be going to transportation. it is not just cameras, it is a system over criminalizing. if you look at the money, why aren't we spending on education and housing? absolutely. they have the authority. this is not money they're saying

-- no, you made a conscious choice to use a broken surveillance system that basically creates a national database that will misidentify people. instead, why don't you spend the schools?go into children stop allowing to drink lead-infested water? may be then they can actually learn in school. how can they learn if they are literally getting poisoned? understand thei intersectionality. every time i talk to immigrant rights groups they are starting to wake up the last few years. they do not talk about fixing immigration without talking about mass and corporate mass incarceration. the same people profit off them.

all of it is driven by corporate greed, corporate assault on working families. they are not putting facial recognition in oakland county or anywhere else. they are making money. you do not see them building new jails. continue fighting, not just increasing access to homeownership, but pushing against using credit scores for auto insurance. they use it for employment, everything. all of that is not what it was intended to be used for. police officera -- he could not but, a police officer because of something on his credit report. how is that allowed? all these systems and barriers focused on helping people rather than incarcerating them is just

unbelievably inhumane but also unjust. that is why we cannot get out of this if they gaslight us to believe they put this stupid greenlight and a camera on a corner that somehow is going to save us. it is not saving us. don't you dare support this over orminalization of our people surveillance. it is not working. how about fixing 36 district courts? [applause] this is what they need to be spending money on. not things that criminalize our people. >> thank you. thank you. two more just take questions from the crowd and we will bounce it back to you? two more take questions on the congresswoman will give her closing remarks. hey, congress wonder woman.

>> [indiscernible] >> where is the money for the new jail? thee is the person who took money from the city of detroit for a new jail that looks like a hole in the ground, like a meteorite hit it? who is accountable for that? this obama care or aca, she talked about obama tried to do that. decimating it, democrats and republicans. let's not get that twisted. what they're offering is better, but at the same time you still have to hold your people accountable. you have to get out here and vote. [applause]

she cannot do it by herself. she cannot do it by herself. the one thing this ministration administration has us doing. trutha demonstration of that was there all along. you all just woke up. i have been woke. i commend you, mother. i have four sons. they all are college graduated. is broken.lma i had 17 surgeries because i have a bone disorder. my husband could not work. i had to work for 25 years. i used it up to the point so i had to go to my personal bank. to the point it was a strike against me.

when i signed up for cobra and my husband was not working, i had to support my entire family which was $500 a month and i am only getting 66.6% of the short term disability. i understand your plight. mother,derstand you, and the young man you, you go for what is yours, brother. never let them tell you what you're worth is. know your role and do it well. that.n to thank you. >> i love the health profession. i have been in it for years. i am a person that believes in 150% patient quality care. you have to understand. educating young

saying nursing makes money, we need to erase the word customers and put patients first. fact she has copd, well over 500 somethinger pounds. me.cannot say anything to you have put a limitation on her. you know exactly how much she will spend. but westand the plight, need better education. initiative to take and be proactive, and get the information and vote. locally, votete

every day, every other day, on holidays, on your birthday, on your break, when you get up, when you sit down. vote. [applause] [laughter] >> all right. i would drop the mic, but it is not mine. the folks at c-span would not be too happy. i will take one more question on this side. we will pass it back to the congresswoman. i said on this side, but i will do two more. then we have to wrap up so we can respect everyone's time. we did say the event would end at 8:00. we have seven minutes to crunch three questions. question.quick

in respect to all of the health care things, i have been in the field over 30 years and i have worked with every possible field , every possible area of health care including insurance and managed health years ago. in assisting questions -- patients and clients in trying to navigate health care and all the changes coming down the tube now, one of the biggest issues that has come across my desk and working with people who have chronic life-threatening illness, like end stage renal disease who may have medicare advantage plans,

they will not cover that unless they have it prior to getting diagnosed. -- they who do not have b,ve straight medicare a and and do not have a secondary except for medicaid. they get the wonderful spend down. i do not understand how somebody making $1400 in an entire household -- >> it started with this entire thing about skin in the game. they politicized it. spend down has big -- been one of the biggest barriers for residents. spend can you give $1000 down to someone making $1400 a month and it starts over every month? these are life-threatening procedures they need. topend my day trying

negotiate things with providers, getting things done for them. i am all in favor of medicare for all. problem is we are in a capitalistic society and we will have to change and really fight for change to get people to understand we are talking about people. we are not talking about case numbers, billing codes, cp2 codes, any of that. enough with the percentage crap. we are talking human bodies, human feelings, and life or death sentences here. that is going to be a tough change when we are talking to people just use to their bottom line. we are really going to have to fight hard. [applause] >> i promised two more.

one in the front, one in the back. she is screaming at me from across. [laughter] >> hello, everybody. good evening. hey girl. i went through, a lot. i am deaf on both sides. only one ear i can really hear out of. i had trouble getting hearing aids. i will fight it. the insurance i have is molina. they are fighting for me. by the grace of god, they got that hearing aid forming. -- for me. i was getting frustrating -- frustrated.

i would listen and not hear anything. it is hard. people would ask, how did you get your hearing aid? my insurance fought for me. trying to get hearing aids for people who cannot hear it all and i feel bad for them because i know what they are going through. i went through the same thing. [indiscernible] [applause] congresswoman, the plan you are fighting for, medicare for all, does it include hearing aids? >> i believe it does. it is one of the things we talked about right away. absolutely. >> one more question. then we will wrap it up. i am sorry if i did not get to you. if you can nab the congresswoman before she goes, good luck.

my name is bob and i am a clinical social worker. i worked in health care all my life. my question is this -- we are a country of walls. in this state we used to have only two insurance companies, one was aetna and one was blue cross blue shield. the law was very clear, they were for nonprofit. we had health care that was given to people. we had health care that was considered public health, and therefore people got services. country changed the laws to a for-profit system. how do we get people to recognize that and to get so pissed off that we close every airport in this country, like hong kong has?

theyshould be pissed off are being killed by these for-profit systems. how do we do that? >> i can tell you seeing something, somebody like me getting elected, people really need to try to believe in the impossible. right now you think it is impossible. it is not. it may not require closing and airport, but things like that are important to elevate a voice and demand the truth gets out. the misinformation out there about medicare for all, i cannot even keep track, the continued misleading information about medicare for all. intentional misleading information about paid leave for all by the michigan restaurant association.

we have to demand it. it is not just about electing people like me who will not sell out. corporate pac money. i want to do a specific training when they go in vote. you have to find out if it is the geo group. funded theople inauguration committee for tron. >> in the meantime, hold us accountable. protest me. comment demand may. do not ever stop holding any of us accountable. let me tell you, the people

power we talk about, it is so, so real. that i think sometimes we forget, we have these town house, we talk to each other peer we realize this information. but do you know how may people are still waiting for you to call them a knock on their door and say, we are going to go to the airport. are we going to go and do this because this is what is happening. when i went door-to-door i learned more about insulin and rationing and people going into shock and everything not because i went to the henry ford health system that is supposed be a nonprofit, right? i went and spoke to my residence who taught me exactly what is happening on the front lines. because one provider is telling one thing. next week it is a completely different approval process. and you know who told me? residence. those are the ones who have the truth and those of the information on the stories you heard appears what we need to elevate. we do it through protest and through sometimes yes, civil disobedience. and demanding to be heard. and all of that is your freedom. here in this country.

to basically call us out pretty to basically demand it. to basically not only just devoted against us or vote for certain people he believe in, but also to go down to your city halls and your, the halls of congress, and demand it. i love doing sit ins. i do not care. i will get arrested tomorrow again. [applause] but it really takes movement work right here, bob read bob you are one of the first people to speak to me in a union hall about making sure this was a real medicare for all not one that was going to sell us out to the for-profit health care plan system. you won't made me tread very carefully, right? you told me expect this because this is what they did last time. you said expect this because look out for global budgeting you taught me that you think it did not make a difference? it did. i had never heard of those terminologies but for the fact that you demanded a meeting with

me. you do not have to demand it, it was pretty easy. you got a meeting with me, then you educated me. if you do not give up on the. you do not assume i would know. were providing that information to me directly. please know that what a great opportunity right now, close to 100 new memos of congress, that you can touch now. you has not been completely know, bought off. exactly. you can go to them now, and ask them. there's a bunch of new members. in this michigan delegation. that many of them are waiting for you to call them and knock down at doors and say we need medicare for all. we need you to know this and that. and this is what we are inspecting. but it really requires all of of, so much wealth information about has. institutional knowledge that cannot be taught by other colleagues, but by the people that have been living and breathing it and fighting forcing a pair for over 20 years -- fighting for single-payer for

over 20 years. know that you have the strength of the purse to demand many members of congress to hear all of you in regard to that we need a humane health-care system that does not feed into another system that is really covered, but for-profit. so thank you all so much for having me. thank you. thank you. [applause] so, thank you congresswoman i want to thank our panelists who came out today from mothering justice. and from michigan united. and from mothering justice. for coming out here and sharing the story and doing the work. you all have an opportunity. today exactly what congresswoman tlaib just talked about. making sure we are having conversations with our elected officials. they hear our stories there they

know are question spirit so when they go back to d.c. their fighting for us, and not the special interests. we talked about the caring majority coalition. everything a one of you in this room can be part of that coalition. if you want to learn more about it, we will have folks standing next to the cookie table to share a low bit more about what that caring majority is. i want to just close with this quick point before i pass it to give it our closing remarks. every single one of you here know the impact of what we have to do and was is at stake. talk about what can actually get done. there is always this conversation of we are not going to be able to get medicare for all. we have to be your realistic. i want us to think about what that means. they're pushing a politics of the probable. what can probably get done with the system as it is. but everything a one of you in this room, i do not think like that. you think of, the politics of the possible.

that if we come together and we organize, and we hopeful scannable, what should the system look like? as itdevelop a system should be and not as it currently is. that is what every one of you will be doing here today. we want you to stay gauge with michigan united. we want you to stay gauge with mothering justice. we want you to stay in touch to make surelaib she hears issues we want to fight for, a people centered agenda that does not focus on diagnostic codes and qualifications of what can get covered, but a human centered system that we make sure we are caring for people who are caring for us. and that they have the tools necessary to care for us when we need it. this is what everything a one if you came in here for, and this is the work we are going to continue to do through that caring majority coalition. and everything in between. i believe she

said she did wrap up. if you have any final words? much to the so michigan majority for engaging caring united. this is exactly how it starts. because i'm going to connect them with giselle with be white p100. because we have active - byp 100[?] thank you mayor for so much. [applause] yes, labor day. just want to thank him and the incredible staff here for hosting us. city, onevery small of my smallest cities of the 13th conventional district. -- congressional district. it takes a lot of resources for them to put this event together. we want to appreciate his leadership in opening the doors here for us here. so it and kim so much. [applause] -- so we thank him so much.

mayore again, thank you and the city of allen park for opening up the space to have our town hall. one more round of applause for our panelists, folks were in the trenches and organizing. and one final round of applause for our congresswoman in the 13th congressional district,, r rashida tlaib [applause] >> all right. so is a part of the caring majority? [applause] who here is a part of that caring majority? [applause] and he wants to make this caring majority bigger? [applause] so we all know what you have to do. these folks up here cannot do it alone. everyone of you have to keep recruiting, sending that message. this is probably the most exciting c-span event that they have had on tv. there is no party like a 13th district party. way to go everybody.

thank you all for coming. [applause] and with that, i want to do one final push so all of you can sit with me together, on the count of three, we say we are the caring majority. all right. 1-3- majoritye caring >> thank you and good night. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] announcer 1: this weekend, while congress is on recess, the groups moms across america is holding rallies to require congress to pass laws requiring background checks on firearms sales. here is congress