Health Care Now Rally and March Thursday 11/13

Attend HealthCare NOW’s rally and march calling for a national Single-Payer health care system. At the rally there will be a Phone-A-Thon supporting HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. Let’s get it passed.

One Nation, One Plan!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:00PM - 5:00PM Rally
Corner 42nd & 7th Ave
5:00PM March to GHI 34th St & 9th Ave

Anger in Philadelphia: CIGNA + McCain = Murder by Spreadsheet

Six days before the most important election in my lifetime, it was an auspicious moment to be standing in the lobby of this Murder by Spreadsheet factory. Read more…

Thursday November 13th at 4:00 pm

New Yorkers will
gather at Bryant Park (42nd St. & 6th Ave.) to
demonstrate in favor of the creation of a Single-payer National Health Insurance Plan (H.R. 676). Today in America, more than 50 million people have no health insurance, 20 million more are under-insured and more than 20,000 people die each year of a treatable illness. In this moment of billion-dollar taxpayer “bailouts” for Corporate America, few people recognize that debts incurred as a result of medical procedures are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. H.R. 676 would end these destructive trends and secure healthcare as a human right.

We need your help to get the word out about this Read more…

EFF

Freedom Not Fear is the world's ongoing demonstration against the encroachment of civil liberties by anti-terrorist laws -- particularly in the online world. This year the protests take place this Saturday, October 11th in nearly thirty countries, including the very first events in the Americas.

Freedom Not Fear Wiki

Via Crooks and Liars we find out about a Health Care for America Now event:
Time:
Tuesday, July 22 at 11:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Host:
Lorraine at Progress Ohio
Location:
The Hyatt on Capitol Square (Columbus, OH)
75 E State St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Update - Politico Read more…

Dying for Healthcare: A National Day of Protest Against Insurance Companies and Rejections of Patients

Philadelphia was one of the 18 cities around the country hosting demonstrations as a part of today's National Day of Protest Against Health Insurance Corporations protesting at the headquarters of each of the major health insurance corporations. Organized by Healthcare-NOW!," the speakers and demonstrators congregated in front of the national headquarters of Cigna in Center City with a crowd of around 200 people. Read more…

Health Care rally in front of Humana HQ

1,000 Picket Health Insurance Convention In San Francisco Read more…

Pittsburgh's part in the National Day of Action Against Health Insurance Companies took place today downtown in front of the Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield building. I was able to be there for about 45 minutes.

The good parts: perfect weather; a wide sidewalk on a busy corner with lots of pedestrians and cars; a decent sound system; good people speaking with something to say and the ability to say it briefly and affectingly; plenty of signs and leaflets; the news that Pittsburgh City Council is on record as endorsing single-payer healthcare; the Tribune-Review (Scaife's paper!) sent a reporter; the local CBS affiliate sent a cameraman. Read more…

Complete list of tomorrow's demonstrations:

Atlanta, GA

Location: Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Time: 3 pm to 5:30 pm

Contact: Margie Rece (msrece [@] yahoo [.] com)

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St. Louis, MO

Location: Milles Fountain located between Market Street and Chestnut Street across from Union Station

Time: 11:45 am

Contact: Julia Lamborne (Julia0409 [@] aol [.] com)

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Albany, NY

Location: 90 State Street (in front of NY Health Plan Association Office)

Time: 5 pm

Contact: Mike Keenan (mikekeenan [@] pefencon [.] info)

More Info: www.singlepayernow.net Read more…

Community Unites to Tell Health Insurance Industy: Health Care Yes, Insurance Companies No!

The June 19 rally will be the first organized mass expression of popular demand for high-quality, affordable health care directed by patients and doctors, not insurance profiteers. Read more…

June 19 (that's this Thursday) there will be a demonstration at the offices of the Humana Insurance Company in San Antonio, TX at 6 PM.

Contact: Jane Lee Cantu (janelee [@] satx.rr [.] com)

Health Care for all Texas

We are a grassroots coalition that believes health care is a human right. Every person in the state of Texas deserves access to high quality health care at an affordable cost.

June 19, Indianapolis, IN, Wellpoint

Contact is Cindy Calley: home [@] calleys[.]org

Check out: Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan

Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is a group of Indiana citizens who support a publicly financed, privately delivered (single payer) universal health plan at the state and national level. HCHP is working to educate the public and the legislature about the benefits of a single payer plan. We are seeking individuals and groups who have an interest in helping achieve this goal.

June 19, National Day of Action for HR 676, Hartford, CT Aetna/Hartford, Contract: Lucille Rosenblatt, IIrosenblatt [@] comcast [.] net

Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care Web Site

Members of the Mighty Corrente Building who attend these events are encouraged to post about them. By this time next week we will be reflecting of the day's events.

Terry McAuliffe to be Protested June 19th

AHIP, America's Health Insurance Plans, decided downtown San Francisco would be a good place for the health insurance company lobbyists and executives to hold their convention. Not surprisingly, thousands of people will take to the streets at noon on June 19th at the Moscone center Read more…

Gainesville, Florida-- Contact: Mark Piotrowski, markp [@] floridalaborparty [.] org
2008 Alachua County Labor Party Calendar

Thurs., June 19 - National Day of Action Against Insurance Companies. In solidarity with the large anti-Insurance Company demonstrations being planned in San Francisco, ACLP will be joining with brothers and sisters in Jacksonville at BlueCross/Blue Shield.

KYHealthCare

On June 19, nurses, doctors, social workers, therapists, and other health care providers across the US will join with members of labor, business, and faith communities in support of patients and their families.

Thursday, June 19th
11:30 am to 12:30 pm

5th and Main in downtown Louisville
(in front of Humana headquarters)
(Map)

Speak out against health insurance companies
who place profits over patients.

Please be there!

contact: Kay Tillow, nursenpo [@] aol [.] com

Take Action on Health Care

The California Nurses Association is co-sponsoring a National Day of Action next Thursday, June 19, 2008.

Americans across the nation will demonstrate in favor of guaranteed healthcare and in protest of AHIP, America’s Health Insurance Plans — the insurance industry lobbyists who profit from pain. Their annual convention will be met by thousands of protestors onsite in San Francisco — 12 Noon, Moscone Center West, 4th @ Howard — and simultaneously in cities across the nation. Read more…

June 19 - National Day of Protest Against Health Insurance Companies Read more…

How badly did Rick Santorum not want to be confronted by a ravening pack of 14 antiwar protesters intent on --brace yourself!--delivering a peace petition to his office?

[The protesters lawyer] said the 14 were arrested before they even had the chance to deliver their declaration of peace to Santorum's office. Four were arrested outside Santorum's office and others were in the lobby or trapped in an elevator that stopped when security personnel turned off the power.

Oh yeah, they were all acquitted today. Some unknown but presumably substantial amount of police, legal, and judicial time which the city and county of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania could perhaps have devoted to, oh, say, things like crime (of which Philly has no shortage at present) was drivelled away on thwarting citizens' civil rights.

I'd love to see these guys turn around and sue the shit out of Li'l Man-on-Dog Ricky, whose name is a byword everywhere canines fear to tread, for false arrest. Read more…

Seriously, MN is a lovely place in summertime, if you don't mind the horseflies. Even more seriously, there's a lesson for bloggers here: always look to the budgets. I wonder if the food will be as good as at Gitmo?

In an supplemental budget request, Ramsey County Sheriff Bill Fletcher is expected to ask for considerable funding to pay for security during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Fletcher, who narrowly won re-election in 2006, expects to arrest between three and five thousand protesters during the GOP's presidential nominating convention in September 2008. According to a source close to the policy-making process in St. Paul, the unconfirmed amount of $4,432,804 includes more than $80,000 $550,000 (update per this morning's Star Tribune) for chain link fence to build outdoor holding areas for protesters. According Dave Verhasselt, spokesman for Ramsey County Manager David Twa, the Saint Paul Police generally have jurisdiction over arrests, and the Sheriff over jailing once arrests are made. Read more…

I'm visiting family this weekend, so I'm missing it, but in honor of those taking to the streets of DC today, I'd like to repost this entry from a while back that got attention at Kos and elsewhere when first posted.

Say what you want about the ineffectiveness of it all, or the "horror" of people being exposed to Communists and anarchists, but I think that it's a good thing for people to take to the streets. I get tired of people mocking those who get off their asses, since when is that a bad thing? As I've said before, sometimes it's nice just to perceive yourself as part of something larger, even if that something includes folks who don't look and act exactly like you do: Read more…