St. Vincent's Candlelight Vigil

Candlelight Vigil at St. Vincent's Hospital on Nov. 7, 2011

Activists, who are fighting a hospital to replace St. Vincent's, ask these questions : (i) where is the community supposed to go when they are having a medical emergency, and (ii) is the Rudin family really a "benevolent" family ?

Link to Fox 5 News Report : Long Emergency Room Wait Times In NYC.

This video was made on 07 Nov 2011 on West 12th Street, outside the Rudin Luxury Condo sales office on the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital.

Rudin Family Economic Injustice

Under the Rudin Family's logic, the have will have more, and the have nots will have even less. The Top 1% can close hospitals in order to convert them into luxury condos, or they can clear out maternity wards, so that they can give celebrity births. Either way, healthcare in the United States is becoming less and less equal.

St. Vincent's MLK Vigil Becomes A Medical Crisis

A man passed out on the sidewalk about 25 feet from a candlelight vigil outside of St. Vincent's Hospital tonight during a celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this video, the political commentator and artist Suzannah B. Troy describes to us the scene of the medical emergency.

St. Vincent's closed in 2010. On Jan. 23, the New York City Planning Commission, headed by Park Avenue socialite Amanda Burden, is expected to approve the luxury condo conversion of St. Vincent's Hospital, which will make billionaire real estate developer Bill Rudin over $1 billion in gross sales.

Earlier in the Day, activists for a single-payer healthcare system gathered at Union Square.

Activists advocating for a hospital to replace St. Vincent's, for example, joined in solidarity with the Physicians for a National Health Program, who held a speak-out on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.