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Film Screening of Strike '75
Posted by Andy1917
Content: 50th Anniversary of Cook County Hospital Resident Doctors’ Strike lm Screening of Strike '75 by MediaBurn What are the lessons of the 1975 Strike as health workers across the U.S. are joining unions and striking over understaffing and dangerous working conditions, and for patients and our communities?
Panelists: Judy Hoffman-Film Director, Cook County House Staff Association,
UIC Medical Residents Union, People’s Response Network, Ujimaa Medics,
In October-November, 1975 over 600 Residents Held the Longest Doctors Strike in U.S. History Over Patient Care Demands at a time when 60 patients were in one room without curtains and where patients regularly died due to lack of medicines, equipment, x-rays, labs, staff and more.
Date/Time: Nov. 19, 2025, noon
Location: NOTE ROOM CHANGE: UIC College of Medicine Research Building (COMRB) Room 585, 909 S. Wolcott Ave, Chicago
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