2nd Sunday's of every month 12 - 3 pm

Our First Non-Governmental Free Clinic:

THANKS Vet!

SOLIDARITY CLINIC

-- Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez Del Solar --

Presente!

Fallecido de Cuerpo

March 27, 2007, Iraq

 Pero Viva Para Siempre Aqui Con Nuestro Trabajo!

Mission Statement

The mission of THANKS Vet is summed up in our name:

To Help ANd Keep Supporting Veterans and all Americans. More than helping and supporting, we are committed to making clearer direct structural solidarity and mutual aid with active duty, reserve component, and post-deployment troops, and at the same time we strive and never fail to fight to assist and protect with every ounce of energy and resources the dependents of such uniformed service personnel.

Letter from Our Founder

Dear Concerned American,

 As a fellow American, concerned physician, and social activist for peace and justice, one year ago, with physician friends who had served in the Veterans administration, with actual veteran physicians who had served in the first Persian Gulf War, and with healthcare advocates spanning the American political spectrum from the perspective of our veterans, our citizens, and our troops, we formed a 501c3 non-profit corporation called THANKS Vet! (To Help ANd Keep Supporting) Veterans and all Americans.

 Our perspective is at once very simple and very radical. It is that healthcare is a right of all, but that in particular expressing and promoting this fact in relation to the 1.8 million American Veterans of foreign wars who have no health coverage might help elevate America, and the veterans who served after all, to defend the constitution of America.

 THANKS Vet has a paradoxical role to play in thanking and supporting Veterans and all Americans. The paradox is this: we want to be put out of business. We envision an America where everyone has access to healthcare – veteran or non-veteran, young and healthy or young and elderly and frail or sick.

 We take the slogan "An army of one." seriously and look forward to a time when there will be one single healthcare system for all Americans. But what are we to do now as the crisis for veterans and all Americans access to healthcare deepens and its traumatic and deadly outcomes increase. [Last year the updated Institute of Medicine report clarified that America suffered 22,000 excess deaths due to the 44 million uninsured.]