Jun Shin, Environmental Justice Action Committee Chair (2019-2020)
From Honolulu Civil Beat
Excerpt:
We are in the middle of a public health crisis. And with more and more workers having to stay home, their families are losing access to the health care coverage that came with their jobs. This creates a sense of urgency for all people to have the best health care possible.
With polls showing over 80% of Democrats wanting universal health care, it’s frustrating that the Democratic Party’s national platform is far behind its own members. Hawaii’s own state platform includes such language, and it’s never been more clear that’s what the country desperately needs.
Those of us who want to see these and other radical transformations of our society will need to organize in mass numbers beyond the convention, both from within and outside of the Democratic Party to put pressure on all our political leaders, including Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, our future president and vice president.