October 28th is the launch of the next wave of Patients Not Profit Sit-Ins ~ And the wave will continue until at least November 4th.
Mobilization for Health Care for All - L.A. is organizing Patients Not Profit Sit-Ins in Glendale to end insurance abuse and win health care for all.
The Rally starts at 10am, and will feature a picket line, a press conference, and an ER DOCTOR delivering their demands to the Insurance Company. If Cigna refuses to speak with them and meet their demands, a group will SIT-IN, and won't leave until they win Healthcare for all.
Contact: Laura Flanagan,
305-542-3570, leflanagan@hotmail.com
http://is.gd/4FsF5
Sunday, October 18, 2009
San Gabriel Valley Interfaith Coalition for Health Insurance Reform Vigil at Pasadena City Hall
Entitled
“Remembering The Faces,” various interfaith Pasadena area
congregations met for brief presentations and a candlelight vigil and march to mourn the 45,000+ people
who die every year for lack of affordable health care. Those who
believe that the health insurance system is broken and needs reform now gathered at Pasadena City Hall Monday night 10/19/09 at 5:30 pm.
Several area clergy committed
to speaking about healthcare, either in a sermon, discussion or homily,
during the coming weekend Sabbath services, including Rabbi Joshua
Levine Grater, Rabbi Alan Lachtman, Rev. George VanAlstine, Rev.
Matthew Colwell, Rabbi Sharon Brous and Rabbi Ari Margolis.
Marchers traveled along Colorado Boulevard to Arroyo Parkway and
gathered on the four corners of the Arroyo Parkway intersection in a
silent vigil.
Participants carried votive candles, signs and
banners honoring people they knew, and photographs of
friends and/or relatives who have suffered for lack of health care.
“Patients Not Profit” sit-ins will be happening in at least 9 cities across the country this Thursday! October 15th L.A. Sit-in:
When: 10 am
Where: Anthem Blue Cross / 801 S. Figueroa St. 90017
Contact: Sam Pullen – samuelbpullen at hotmail dot com
October 15th will announce the arrival of a new force on the
political landscape: Americans across the country who have had enough
of the insurance company death panels and are standing up – and sitting
in – to end their abuse once and for all. If we have to go to jail to
move our nation to enact reform that finally guarantees the right to
health care for all, so be it. The status quo cannot continue, and
current reform proposals simply won’t solve the problem.
We know many of you are organizing sit-ins in your community, but
haven’t been able to make it happen for the 15th. That’s okay: Thursday
is just the beginning. Mark your calendars – the date for the next round of sit-ins is October 28th.
...If even a small percentage of the millions of
people who’ve been hurt by these insurance companies start going to
jail to stand up to them all over America, there will be historic
possibilities for real reform that do not exist now. We owe it to
ourselves and future generations to do everything we can to realize
that possibility.
Thanks for everything you’re doing. Let’s make it happen. If you haven’t yet, please donate today to help us continue to build this campaign.
More info and other city sit-ins at http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/2009/10/13/october-15th-and-beyond/
It’s only a matter of time until our
elected officials admit what we already know—Medicare for All is the
best and only solution to what ails our American
healthcare system.
In solidarity,
Tim Carpenter
P.S. Medicare for All supporters across
the country have
been sitting-in at healthcare industry
corporate offices.
PDA’s own Lorin Klugman and Jim Rhodes
were arrested
at Cigna in Chicago earlier this week—check it out.
DO YOU HAVE STOCK IN HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES? Almost every American does - In your Mutual Funds, your Pension, your IRA, etc. Teri Szucs sent a letter to Keith Olbermann at MSNBC about the importance of all of us divesting ourselves of Health Insurance Company Stock.
We Must Make Owning Health Insurance Stock
Politically Incorrect!
VOTE WITH YOUR STOCK!
Please write, call, email everyone you know
and anyone of influence
who may be able to help us Get this into the national conversation this week!
If
there is any chance that you or any of your friends, colleagues or
other contacts could get this message to Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow,
Phil Donahue, Chris Matthews, Shepard Smith, Jon Stewart,
Bill Maher, Michael Moore, AirAmerica, Larry King... Or any other high profile
public figures: Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Rep. Weiner, Rep. Barney Frank, Rep. Grayson, Rep. Howard Dean, Matt Taibbi, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Wendell Potter, Jon Waters, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Mike
Farrell, Will Ferrell, Ed Begley, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Oprah
Winfrey, Ellen Degeneris, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, etc., we would
really appreciate your making that effort.
Please help us get this message into the right hands. See below.
Thank you very much.
Kristin Dewey
www.mikessister.com
DIVEST THYSELF!
Do you have
a pension fund, mutual fund, an IRA, a 401k? Congratulations, you
too own a piece of a Health Insurance Company.
Unless
we
demand Health Care as a Basic Human Right, the tangled web is in so
many of our pockets it will forever keep us trapped. If we
remove the risk of a big down slide for all of us and all of the
powerful big investors on Wall Street, this strong resistance to Single
Payer Universal Health Care and the demise of the Health Insurance
Companies
will be less of a real financial and practical threat.
Reaching our goal of Universal Health Care under a Single Payer System should not take a huge toll on everyone’s savings, so
let’s divest.
There is an easy
way to weaken the Health Insurance Companies, even to break them, without
withholding our premiums: STOP OWNING THEM.
VOTE WITH YOUR STOCK!
Make
investing in Health Insurance Companies bad karma, like Sierra Leone
blood
diamonds. Major institutions have turned the tides around the world by
refusing to trade in inhumanity - Apartheid was overturned, selling
ivory is now illegal in most countries.
Insurance companies and
their obscene profits are a major part of all our portfolios,
including union’s retirement plans and the
pension plans of all our cities and states.
This explains why none of the other
high power corporations, auto makers, Coca Cola, the usually liberal
Hollywood studios, just to name a few, and all our Senators, Republican
and Democrat and even President Obama, are not demanding single payer.
Their
executives and their unions, their cities and states, their
school boards, also own a piece of the Health Insurance pie,
strengthening the stranglehold these corporations hold over every
aspect of our lives.
Let
us all call our banks, our brokers, our pension fund administrators,
and tell them to divest our portfolios from any mutual funds that include Health Insurance Company stock.
Once we're
clean, we need to call our employers, unions, school boards,
colleges mayors, governors, and ask them to divest their pensions and
investments
from all Health Insurance Company stocks.
Ask your viewers to do the same. Call on the Networks and the Studios to divest. Please do this for the rest of us. We need a voice, Please be that voice, because you can.
If a few public figures will
make a statement - or a song, or a video - paralleling Health Insurance Stock to blood money, to blood
diamonds, to ivory, to Apartheid, few people will want it. We should be guilted and embarrassed out of owning it.
If you know a union leader, your councilman, a newscaster, an actor.... Please use them wisely.
Join Westside Progressives & Friends PROTEST FOX LIES ABOUT HEALTH CARE
&
SUPPORT HEALTH CARE 4 ALL
RALLY IN FRONT OF FOX TV CENTER
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, 5pm-7pm
Fox accuses other stations of under-reporting opposition to Health Care Reform…
Will support of Health Care Reform continue to be ignored?
STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH ACORN LOS ANGELES WHO IS INVITED TO JOIN US TO SUPPORT HEALTH CARE FOR ALL &
TO PROTEST FOX RECKLESS MISREPRESENTATION OF NEWS!
Rally
Location: Fox Television Center, Home office and news studios for KCOP
and KTTV, across street from KSCI, Los Angeles major Asian language TV
station.
Address: 1999 S. Bundy Dr, LA, CA 90025
Near corner of Bundy and La Grange, a couple blocks north of Olympic.
RSVP: leapinloui@gmail.com, attn: June. Please indicate if you can help host at site on day of event!!
Bring SIGNS to encourage ongoing traffic to honk to support Health Care Reform, especially SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE 4 ALL.
MAD AS HELL DOCTORS D.C. WHITE RIBBON SINGLE PAYER RALLY AND L.A. SUPPORT RALLY
September 30, 2009
The Mad As Hell Doctors care-a-vanned from Oregon to D.C. for 3 weeks, stopping for several town halls and community meetings per day along the way promoting a Single Payer health care reform plan.
Our current health care system puts profit before people. A Single Payer plan is the only real path to a health care system that is socially, ethically and fiscally responsible. The Public Option is a trap, and is doomed to fail. What we need is real reform that finds immediate savings, controls costs, and accomplishes the moral imperative of true Universal Access.
TIE ONE ON FOR SINGLE PAYER! The White Ribbon is the new national symbol for the Single Payer Movement.
Teri Szucs and I decided to organize a rally in Los Angeles in support of the Doctors’ arrival in D.C. Teri had to leave the state for work, so I took over, but with a lot of help from Suzanne O'Keeffe and my day-of/right-hand woman, Lilly Russell.
The Washington, D.C. Mad As Hell Doctors Rally
Rep. Dennis Kucinich speaking at the MAHD D.C. Rally
The Hollywood MAHD Support Rally
HOLLYWOOD SPEAKERS: Rally Organizer Kristin Dewey
Radiation Oncologist Paul Y. Song
E.R. Physician Matt Hendrickson, MD MPH Pediatrician Johanna (Jo) Olson MD, FAAP, FSAM Mario Milch MD, Medical Director of Kaiser L.A. Hospice
Rishi Manchanda MD MPH
Joanne Daly, MD, Family Practice Physician, Kaiser L.A.
UCLA medical students, including Adam Saby
Frank Cavestani Linda Krausen
James Koopman, Dist. Rep for Rep. Diane Watson
Taking the Mad As Hell Doctors' Single Payer Pledge: "On my honor, as a healthcare advocate, I will do all in my power to work for: A system of payment that redirects all current health care money Both public and private into a single public fund That covers everyone... Till death do us part."
Dr. Paul Y. Song and Dr. Matt Hendrickson
ABC Eyewitness News showed up after the rally. That would be me holding the mic for Dr. Paul Y. Song. The interviews were cut out, but they did use us as a teaser at every commercial break on the 11:00 News - the human interest story for the night, and they did get out our Single Payer message - that we think it's a trap, and gave the Mad As Hell Docs a nice plug.
Lilly Russell & the Duggars
Yes, I put 300 fliers on windshields one hot weekend.
Hollywood Photos:
Suzanne O'Keefe, Joshua Marks, Lilly Russell & Kristin Dewey Hollywood Videos:
Frank Cavestani & Joshua Marks
More that 200 members of the Los Angeles community turned out for our Candlelight Vigil to mourn and celebrate lifelong Universal Health Care advocate, Senator Edward Kennedy, and to share personal stories of how the present medical system has impacted our lives.
Speakers
included Dr. Mario Milch, Director of Kaiser L.A. Hospice,
Pastor Jim
Burklo, author of "Open Christianity,"
and a half dozen citizens sharing
their own reasons for supporting
meaningful health care
reform, including a strong Public Option.
David Sobel speaking, Organizer Kristin Dewey, Dr. Mario Milch
Pastor Jim Burklo
Dr. Mario Milch
Kenneth Thomas
Teri Szucs
Michael Duran
Darlene Chan
Photos: David Sobel, Suzanne O'Keeffe, Corrin Hodgson, Lilly Russell. Michael Zamboni
I'M ALL OVER SINGLEPAYER HEALTH CARE, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM & REGULATED CAPITALISM. I'm an artist, survivor, aunt, girlfriend, backup singer, humanitarian, tree-hugger, activist, community organizer, liberal, filmmaker, music promoter, with a cat who wears pants and a brother *still* waiting to get on the liver transplant list.
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