Multi-media photo & video exhibit holds up voices of Americans for health reform

October 05, 2009

Over 1,000 people from PICO affiliates across the country will add their portraits and handwritten notes to a cross-country photo and video exhibition titled "Bearing Witness: A Pilgrimage for Health Reform" that will culminate in a display on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C in mid-October.  The exhibit will visit seven cities across the country and collect stories from families in need of health reform.

The exhibit will make stops in San Bernardino, CA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; New Orleans, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; and Orlando, FL before arriving in Washington, D.C. in mid-October. 

The exhibit will also be displayed at www.icareforhealthcare.org

As Congress continues negotiating over the vital details of health reform, faith leaders from organization, in alliance with 1,000 congregations in the PICO National Network, are working to ensure that our nation's leaders get the details right around affordability for families. In light of the Treasury Department's recent finding that nearly one-half of non-elderly Americans have gone through some gap in health insurance coverage over the last decade, the exhibit is meant to lift up the voices of this large segment of the population, whose support is crucial to the success of health reform efforts.