As part of GEO’s response to attacks on our health insurance by the UMass Amherst administration, we joined coalition partners at a hearing of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing at City Hall in Pittsfield, MA.

GEO members Derek Doughty (Anthropology), Sarah Finn (Writing Program), Jocelyn Silverlight (Social Justice Education), Thomas Herndon (Economics), and Roberto Garcia-Ceballos (Social Justice Education) joined UAW 2322 President Ron Patenaude and UAW 2322 Servicing Representative Ryan Quinn to flyer outside the event and to discuss the changes in the UMass Amherst Student Health Insurance Plan, and how those changes could be a model for cost containment state-wide.

(l-r) Jocelyn Silverlight, Ryan Quinn, Thomas Herndon, Derek Doughty, Roberto Garcia-Ceballos, Sarah Finn

GEO with advocates from the Mass. Nurses Association and Healthcare for All

The GEO delegation outside Pittsfield City Hall

Roberto Garcia-Ceballos and Derek Doughty flyering outside the health care cost containment hearing