Hospital occupation by the Young Lords and what it accomplished! Yay organizing!
Hospital occupation by the Young Lords and what it accomplished! Yay organizing!
The Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major administrative building in response to deplorable treatment of people of color.
I was recently reading about the Young Lords and their hospital occupation in one of the PSL's publications! I thought this was a pretty cool instance of occupations succeeding and being popular (at least in the sense of mass support).
They occupied a Bronx hospital and were able to get the government to come to the negotiation table. They also staged trash burnings across the city to protest inadequate sanitation.
I don't know how they are these days, but I thought it was a cool instance of afrolatin history :).
One of the videos is from Democracy Now so bear with me...