20 Years of Advocacy - Fighting for change in Memphis!
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Memphis Chapter and the National Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in conjunction with the Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association, Memphis enter for Independent Living, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, ADAPT of Tennessee and those that are personally facing TennCare cuts are coming together for a press conference:
When: Thursday, June 16, 11:00AM
Where: Memphis Center for Independent Living
1633 Madison Avenue
Memphis, TN 38112
Purpose: Dr. Charles Steele, SCLC’s National President, will be announcing that the National Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will be joining the ongoing efforts in Tennessee to reinstate the TennCare cuts.
As a Coalition we are demanding for Governor Bredesen to respond to the Declaration to Save Lives. The Declaration was initially delivered to the Governor’s office April 8th, 2005. Despite the Governor’s claims of keeping lines of communications open concerning TennCare, he has yet to respond to any of the nine recommendations in the Declaration. The recommendations within the Declaration would have saved the state of Tennessee $649 million dollars and would have allowed thousands of Tennesseans to keep their TennCare coverage.
For more information on this press conference please contact Dr. Dwight Montgomery at 901/795-8149 President of the Memphis Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or Randy Alexander at 901/726-6404 with the Memphis Center for Independent Living.