In an article about clinic and hospital closures in Brooklyn, The New York Daily News is highlighting our YouTube video!
Gloves off in fight to keep clinics open
As they campaign to keep two Central Brooklyn health clinics up and running, advocates are using everything from old-fashioned, political arm-twisting to newfangled YouTube videos.
The Central Brooklyn Health Crisis Coalition is urging local elected officials to write and call Gov. Spitzer and the state Health Department so that the St. Peter Claver and the Sister Thea Bowman Family Health clinics won't close.
The coalition is asking the public to tune in to a YouTube video, www.youtube.com/opportunityagenda, to hear from clinic patients, and to support the campaign by writing or calling state officials.
"We must keep the pressure on," said Ngozi Moses, executive director of the Brooklyn Perinatal Network and head of the coalition, which includes several community groups and the Brooklyn borough president's office.
You can watch the full video here. And don't forget about the other new media tools we've brought to bear on the problem of hospital and clinic closures in Brooklyn.
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