Chairman’s Corner

Equal Access to Health Care

“The new civil rights struggle in America”   

                                                                                                                                             Roy Innis   

                                                  National Chairman of CORE   

CORE Partners with United Nations to host Biotech Seminar

    The subject of biotechnology to increase food production has sparked controversy and debate

    Proponents argue that the use of biotechnology can increase the efficiency of farmers particularly in developing nations. They also point to the increased resistance to pests and herbicides, the greater nutritional content and the positive effect on the environment that it can have.

     Opponents cite the unknown long term consequences and ethical implications as their primary reservation in its use. They advocate further testing and stricter regulation.

CORE’s World Conference at United Nations

     While some parts of the world, such as the US and Japan have embraced biotechnology, other areas and markets have continued to express reservations. In the meantime, people are dying from hunger and disease all over the world.

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     Through the span of over six decades CORE has been a prominent voice for every good cause. Evolving from the civil rights organization of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s to the human rights organization of the new millennium, it has sounded the refrain of making “equality a reality for all”. Today we have declared the pursuit of good health the new civil rights movement.

At CORE’s 19^th Annual Martin L. King, Jr. Celebration, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson, asked  CORE and other organizations to take the initiative to educate others on health care.  At a previous event, CORE had already sounded the alarm about the health care crisis. That summer, in partnership with Together Rx, a pharmaceutical industry drug discount card program, CORE sponsored a “Health Care Festival” in  Time Square that was a huge success. 

 A prime objective of CORE’s “Health Awareness Initiative” has been to address the “poverty of information” regarding the availability of drug therapies and prescription discount programs that could assist one in a quest for better health. By your presence you are participating in establishing a new direction for civil rights.

Amazingly a staggering percentage of Americans do not have health care and are not aware of what wonderful, affordable opportunities are available.

There are large numbers of citizens who do not have health plans supplied by their employers. In an uneasy economy with new expensive medical procedures and medicines, there is an ever growing need for relief from the burden of obtaining good health care.

This is why CORE has asked hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, HMOS, other related companies, and community organizations affected by this issue, to join with us to erase this “poverty of information”.

Secretary of Health & Human Services, Tommy Thompson, gives keynote address at CORE's King holiday Celebration

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INNIS LEADS FACT-FINDING MISSION TOAFRICA

CORE Chairman, Roy Innis, lead a fact-finding delegation to African to examine the effects and possible use of biotechnology to increase the production of food in some countries.

The group visited projects in Kenya and South Africa being conducted by the Monsanto Company and spoke with other African leaders about this important issue.

A video of the trip documenting the findings is available through COR