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Cinco de Mayo is just days away, and the festivities continue, albeit online. Altísimo Live! is a Cinco de Mayo concert that, this year, will benefit the Farmworkers Pandemic Relief Fund. Lots of people and organizations are stepping up to assist the most vulnerable -- read this week’s Weekly Win, below, for a rundown. But before that, here are some additional reads that MCN staff shared... Read More
This week, Migrant Clinicians Network joined Doctors for America, Refugee Health Alliance, and Human Impact Partners to demand that Robert R. Redfield, MD, the Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, immediately rescind the recently extended order to suspend the admission of asylum seekers “from countries where a communicable disease exists,” as the order states. “The... Read More
[Editor’s Note: The spring issue of Streamline has arrived in mailboxes around the country. On the front page, we announced the release of Migrant Clinicians Network’s newest comic book, and included a two-page sample of the comic book inside. Below is a reprint of the Streamline article. Subscribe to Streamline to receive the in-print quarterly journal.The comic book is currently available as a... Read More
Photo: (c) www.earldotter.com [Editor’s Note: April 28th is Workers Memorial Day. Every year, we honor those workers who have died on the job by pushing for better protections to prevent future deaths. This year, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the need for better protections for the health of our essential workers is indisputable.]For perhaps the first time in American history,... Read More
Summer is just around the corner, and some of the warmer pockets of our country are already producing summer crops, like tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. As COVID-19 disrupts food distribution and slows farm work, we are grateful to the thousands of workers who are still toiling in the fields to bring us those long-craved jewels of summer. This week, as expected, COVID-19 was center stage, and... Read More
Representative Jim McGovern visits the Ursula Detention Center in McAllen, TX.Migrant Clinicians Network calls on immigration authorities to rescind dangerous immigration policies that put refugees and migrants, and border communities, at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.In May 2019, the Trump Administration began enforcing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also called “Remain in Mexico”,... Read More
Photo by Earl DotterBy Amy K. Liebman, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network“There are mountains beyond mountains. The struggle continues.” Citing the Haitian proverb, my colleague (and former MCN Board Member) Wilson Augustave wrote these words in response to my Facebook post where I shared the grief of my friend Habacuc Petion who had just lost his cousin... Read More
During our weekly all-staff meeting, MCN staff members discussed the worrying health consequences of the proposed pay cut for H2A workers in the midst of the pandemic, during which such workers are essential to our basic food system. Luckily, it appears that the Trump Administration is no longer attempting to reduce H2A worker wages, but such a suggestion is concerning. Reduced pay for H2A... Read More
Not surprisingly, this week’s recommendations from MCN staff members once again heavily leaned toward COVID-19, particularly around the health needs of farmworkers. The pandemic has shined a much-needed spotlight on the essential nature of farmwork to keep our food system operating. And yet, necessary and long-overdue safety and health precautions and access to even basic health care haven’t yet... Read More
Health Centers on the Frontlines: Mary's Center on Virtual Enabling Services, Internal Communication, and Finances during COVID-19
At Mary’s Center, a large Washington, DC and Maryland-based community health center with five clinical sites, two senior service centers, and 23 school-based mental health sites in partnership with DC public schools, Seiji Hayashi, MD, MPH, Chief Transformation Officer, is taking it one day at a time. As COVID-19 and the accompanying economic crisis -- resulting in a national trend of fewer... Read More
