More Health-Care Sit-Ins Coming up this week......

[marmar]

http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/


Upcoming Actions


October 30th:

Philadelphia, PA
When: Noon
Contact: Jeff Muckensturm, 267-515-2400, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-pa.ning.com/

November 2nd

St. Louis, MO
When: 10:00AM
Contact: Mark Reed, [e-mail], 314-773-7876
Site: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-stlouis.ning.com/

San Diego, CA
When: 10:00AM
Contact: Jerry Malamud, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-sandiego.ning.com/

November 4th:

Albuquerque, NM
When: 10:30AM
Contact: Guy Watson, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-abq.ning.com/

Atlanta, GA
When: 10:00AM
Contact: Denise Woodall, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-atlanta.ning.com/

Detroit, MI
When: 12:00pm
Contact: Precious Daniels, [e-mail]; 313-361-4318
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-detroit.ning.com

Houston, TX
When: TBA
Contact: Janet Ray Hansen, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-houston.ning.com

Syracuse, NY
When: Noon
Contact: Karen Nezelek, [e-mail], 315-876-9669
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-upstateny.ning.com

November 5th:

Denver, CO
When: 11:00AM
Contact: Bob Carlsten, [e-mail]
Link: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-denver.ning.com/

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On September 27th, the Mobilization for Health Care for All launched a national campaign of "Patients Not Profit" sit-ins at insurance company offices to demand an end to a system that profits by denying people care. We want the real "public option": Medicare for All, a single payer plan that cuts out the profit and puts patients first.

Together, through this campaign, we can turn the tide and win the fight for health care for all. To succeed, we need to organize sit-ins in as many cities as possible in the month of October. The campaign began with the local leadership of Private Health Insurance Must Go (PHIMG) in New York City on September 29th and continued in Chicago on October 8th and in 9 cities across the country on October 15th. The next wave starts on October 28th and we will continue to organize actions in as many cities as possible until we win health care reform that ensures that the insurance companies no longer stand between the American people and the health care that we need. It's time to cut out the profit and put patients first with Medicare for All.

Insurance companies are the real death panels in America. They make billions in profit and millions for their CEOs while millions of Americans have no health insurance and over 45,000 die every year because they can't get the care they need. That's more than 120 people every day. These insurance companies deny care to their members and the American people for profit.

America deserves better, and that's why we voted for change. But the insurance companies are spending millions to confuse and scare the public to keep us from ending their grip on our health and our money. With teabagger town hall protestors and the right-wing noise machine on their side, they're winning. We can't let that happen. It's time to take the fight to the real villain in the health care debate.

When the civil rights movement faced a similar challenge in the struggle to end segregation, nonviolent civil disobedience moved the nation and made reform possible. Just like the lunch counter sit-ins did for the civil rights movement, we have to make it impossible for the media and our country to ignore how outrageous the status quo of private insurance is for the American people.

It only takes a small group of people to do a sit-in in your community, but our actions can inspire every American who has been abused by the insurance companies and believes it's time for real reform to fight for it. This campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience will continue until the insurance companies no longer stand between the American people and the health care that is our right.

Already, doctors, nurses, patients, and people just like you are signing up to be one of the 1000 ordinary but courageous people who will launch this nonviolent battle to end private insurance abuse and win health care for all. Join us! We can't wait any longer - every day more people die because of the insurance company death panels.

[joeycola]

1. Thanks for the post

[maglatinavi]

2. Sit ins

Move on org planned one in Temple, Texas but had to be suspended due to torrential rains. Last Saturday we rallied in the entrance to a Mall and gathered petitions for health care reform with a strong public option and statements of persons' bad experiences with health insurers. Those will be delivered in pill boxes to the Sens. Hutchinson and Cornyn. In my neighborhood I had parents with trick or treating children sign petitions for strong public option... all, I mean ALL parents signed!!! They will be given to the senators in pill boxes. And... we will continue Teddy's dream ... the dream is alive ...
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[GroundingHubris]

3. Texas Sit ins

Repost in any other threads or discussions where appropriate.

We are working on organizing a state wide Mobilization for Health Care for All. So far, only two of us. Anyone in Tx willing to help (Please!Help)contact me through here. Janet and I are more of 'foot soldiers' then organizers. She is working on
DCScriptshttp://mobilizeforhealthcare-houston.ning.comDCScripts
which, hopefully will become mobilizeforhealthcare-Texas.

Also, the teabaggers will be in Austin. anyone wanting to show up for counter protest against them
here is info:
DCScriptshttp://www.teapartyexpress.org/tour-shedule-2/austin-tx/DCScripts

Austin, TX is our 27th stop on the Tea Party Express national bus tour.

Date/Time:

Friday, November 6th at 5:00 pm

Rally Location:
Austin State Capitol
Congress Ave & East 11th St.
Austin, TX

[dysfunctional press]

4. the only 'sit-in' that MIGHT change aything would have to be a HUGH one in dc...

that doesn't end until something changes.

these small events scattered around the country are pretty much meaningless.

[GroundingHubris]

5. small events

"these small events scattered around the country are pretty much meaningless."
You must either too young to remember the civil rights movement or have forgotten how it was all the little sit ins around the country, esp, south that created momentum and change.
Events do not have to be huge, small ones can snowball into larger ones.

I must live by the same code I thought my daughters and grandchildren:
"If you see injustice, hate, ignorance then you stand up against it; even if you are the only one standing".


I will at the capital in Austin on Fri to stand against the teabaggers cross country express event, even if I am only one.

[dysfunctional press]

6. times have changed.

the mass media controls the agenda.
small local events can be ignored, and as far as the public at large(and their reps in dc), it's as if they never even happened.