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Fri, 12/11/2009 - 4:29pm — DCblogger

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Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer, Demanding Medicare for All

New York, NY. December 10, 2009 -- On Thursday morning, a group of friends and colleagues, mostly middle-aged, sat and chatted over coffee at a midtown deli near Grand Central Station. Then Laurie Wen, an organizer with the Mobilization for Healthcare for All, showed up with a box of granola bars and a bag full of T-shirts, and everybody cheerfully rolled up their sleeves to write the number of an attorney on their forearms.

Two hours later most of them were in jail, and the "fourth wave" of a nationwide campaign to use civil disobedience to push for a single-payer plan had delivered its demands to the doorstep of Senator Chuck Schumer's midtown Manhattan office.

Major props to Huffington Post for running this. Arrianna is on her way to being the next Katherine Graham.

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Too bad there aren't a few more

By letsgetitdone on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 8:03pm

Too bad there aren't a few others on their way to becoming the new Katherine Graham.

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