Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
@drchandraford
Professor, Researcher, Believer. Founding Director: @RacialHealthEQ Expertise: Racism, CRT/PHCRP, health equity, healthcare. Tweets mine; retweet≠endorsement.
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http://www.RacialHealthEquity.org 19-09-2015 18:26:04
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Well, it finally happened to me. ER nurse called HOSPITAL SECURITY on me last night because I declined to remove my mask--despite repeatedly stating immune compromised, have #LongCOVID, can't risk reinfection & asking to speak to my ER doctor on options. Public health? Free fall.
Let them speak, @demconvention. As a mother of two Black boys, a health equity advocate, a physician, and human being, I cannot unsee the dynamics of power and influence at work here. Please prove me wrong and allow a rep of the Uncommitted National Movement 🌺 or a Palestinian-American speak.
In 2023, Ashley D. Farmer and I started a Freedom School to teach student activists how to archive their activism and control their own narrative. This fall, the freedom school is back and open to ALL! FREE and OPEN to the public but it does require registration.
Students protested the killings in Gaza today. Counter-protesters waved flags, laughed, jeered. Other students easily walked around both groups. A group of us faculty watched for 2 hours. It was peaceful. Then DPSS attacked and dragged away at least 2 of our University of Michigan students. 1/2
The Biden administration is reinforcing its air and sea forces in the Mideast while rushing arms shipments to Israel, amid rising concerns about Iran retaliating for the Tehran assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh / Oded Yaron 🍅 & avi scharf haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
SELF-DEFENSE? Israel claims that what it is doing in the West Bank is justified under the law of self-defence. This claim has no validity. Twenty years ago the CIJ_ICJ determined that Israel could not invoke self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter to justify its Wall in