On Wednesday, April 15th, during Genocide Prevention Month, Doctors Against Genocide is hosting an advocacy day in Washington, D.C., with a goal of bringing 1,000 healthcare workers and allies to tell our elected officials that we reject the policies, systems, and government complicity that allow genocide, mass violence, and the destruction of civilian life to continue.

Who: You. Join us for this advocacy day, and invite friends, coworkers, fellow medical students, research collaborators, union siblings, and anyone in your community who believes in justice, dignity, and the protection of life.

Why: Genocide Prevention Month must mean more than words. It must mean action against the political, military, economic, and social conditions that allow genocide and mass atrocity to happen and continue. We are coming together to advocate against the forces that enable violence in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, and Congo, and against systems of state violence in the United States, including ICE attacks on immigrants and families, denial of healthcare, attacks on LGBTQ+ communities, and policies that target the most vulnerable.

We are also speaking out against cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, the stripping away of access to healthcare, and the rising prices of gas, medications, and basic necessities that directly shape whether people can survive, heal, and live with dignity. Health is political. The conditions that make people sick, unsafe, displaced, criminalized, or unable to access care are all connected.

As healthcare workers and people of conscience, we have a responsibility to speak clearly about the policies that enable genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, forced displacement, detention, and the destruction of healthcare systems and civilian life. Genocide prevention requires confronting these systems early, clearly, and collectively.

Tax Day is on the same day. That matters. During Genocide Prevention Month, we should care deeply about how our money is spent. Our tax dollars should not fund bombs, cages, persecution, mass surveillance, or the dismantling of the social programs people need to live. They should support healthcare, housing, food, education, safety, and collective well-being.

If there is interest, we will host a training ahead of the advocacy day and a retreat the day after so we can strategize together about how to build sustained power for liberation, protection of life, and collective action.

Note: Please join if you are a healthcare worker, social worker, mental health professional or a supporter. The forces that profit from war, detention, displacement, austerity, and impunity are organized and well funded. We must be organized too. This is a call to come together during Genocide Prevention Month and demand an end to our government’s complicity in genocide and systems of state violence.

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