Mad As Hell Doctors California Road Trip and Sacramento Single Payer Rally

Mad As Hell Oregon E.R. Dr. Paul Hochfeld & me in Pasadena

Hello again. I hope you're all keeping your cool in this wicked hot weather... Many of you came out to our Hollywood & Highland Health Care Reform rallies this time last year. While we did accomplish some health care goals, we have a long way to go.

I hope to see you again soon, as Oregon's Mad As Hell Doctors are winding their way through California, drumming up support and motivating Californians to build a strong grassroots movement to finally accomplish Single Payer health care for California - and the nation.

Dozens of local organizers and groups are joining the Doctors' California Road Trip along the route, planning rallies and media opportunities to build Single Payer energy and help the California legislature and new Governor recognize that Single Payer health care is the compassionate and fiscally responsible choice.

Tonight they're in Santa Cruz, tomorrow 9/28 in Stanford, 9/29 in San Luis Obispo, 9/30 Santa Barbara, 10/1 Monterey Park and Burbank, 10/2 Pasadena's Levitt Pavilion, 10/3 Venice, CA... and on and on until the biggest and most important rally on the State Capitol steps in Sacramento on October 12 from 10am to noon.

Mayor of Santa Cruz - Tonight

MEDICARE FOR ALL: EVERYBODY IN - NOBODY OUT

It is very important to have a large turnout for Single Payer in Sacramento on October 12th and we're asking that you consider traveling there to add your presence and your voice to this demonstration of California's support for universal health care. 

Sacramento Capitol steps on October 12th  10am-Noon

For detailed information, click on the name of your city in the itinerary that follows the map, at this link. If you can help, please contact the local organizers listed for each city.  

Their main site is at www.madashelldoctors.com and they're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MadDrs.

Be safe out there.

Kristin Dewey
www.mikessister.com

Medicare's 45th Birthday & L.A. Single Payer Rally Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Sunday August 1, 2010, we will celebrate the 45th birthday of Medicare and demonstrate our support for Bay Area Senator Mark Leno's SB 810, The California Universal Health Care Act! It is also my brother Mike's birthday, so it's a perfect day for me to show my continued support for a Single Payer Health Plan.

Sunday, August 1, 2010 2–4 p.m.
Guest Speakers:
Sara Rogers, Legislative health care consultant to Senator Mark Leno, author of SB 810
Sandy Goldfarb from the California Alliance for Retired Americans.
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Mercado La Paloma
3655 South Grand Ave.
Los Angeles

• At 37th Street; exit on Exposition Blvd. off 110; blocks from USC and downtown
• Web: mercadolapaloma.com
• Bus: Broadway / 36th 40, 42, 45
• Plenty of free parking!

SB810 Fact Sheet: http://bit.ly/9GkE37

For more information call 323–316-8933 or email lisa@singlepayernow.net.
Details at SinglePayerNow.net     http://bit.ly/aGLQ1I 

I look forward to seeing some friendly faces from last year's Hollywood & Highland rallies. : )
To our good health!

Kristin Dewey

With love in our hearts!

Not perfect - far from it, but closer than we've ever been to universal health care in the United States of America. Thank you everyone who worked so hard to make this happen.

Celebrate! Relish this moment. Remember this day - because tomorrow is another day and another battle. Change, as we've learned, is not easy. It will not come quickly, and it won't be pretty, but it will come. The times are changing - finally - and we should all give ourselves a big hug right now. We deserve it.

Most of us haven't worked all these months or years for health care reform for ourselves. Most of us have good jobs with good benefits. We've been doing it for the rest of America - to those who aren't as fortunate as we are... For the poor, the abused, the sick, the neglected, the overworked, the underpaid, and everyone who just wants the world to be a little bit more fair in a country where we can afford to take care of our own. And we've been doing it for the ignorant right wing tea party Americans who just can't see the forest for the trees.

Don't hate them. Don't respond to their anger in kind. Love them. They can't help it. They've been duped by the machine into fighting for the very interests intent upon using them up and spitting them out. They can't understand that what we want is what they need and that in most cases we're doing it for them more than for ourselves.

They're like a mad dog with a nail in their paw. They're terrified. They're in pain. They think we're out to get them. They don't know we're trying to help and if they'll just let us, we can help get that paw fixed, that operation covered, that preexisting arthritic condition will no longer be an issue... but they don't know, and they can't think straight.

Eventually, they'll come around. They'll begin to get it, and we can be friends again.

Fight and keep fighting, but do it with love in your heart.

Peace,
Kristin

MoveOn Emergency Rally for Health Care Reform Tues 1/26/10

MoveOn Emergency Rally
for Healthcare Reform 

It's not dead yet!

Tues 1/26/10 12noon
Raymond Ave. and Holly St., Pasadena CA
More info about this and other rallies nationwide:
MoveOn.org

Bring signs and banners.