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[i'll be there; have had plenty ENUF myself]<br>
<b>4:30 to 5:30 this Friday and
every Friday</b><br>
<b>Kerry's Boston office just two blocks from MGH on
Cambridge St.<br>
</b>[One Bowdoin Square]<br>
see you in the street...<br>
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Please circulate widely.<br>
jw<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I have had enough. (See below.) Kevin Zeese,
author of the piece below, and the rest of the Baucus 13 have provided
a spark for single payer at the Baucus hearings (designed to keep the
people out and to peddle Obama's health care "reform" ) . Now it is up
to us everywhere. Or else we can simply give up and squander this
opportunity..<br>
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The best target in MA seems to be Kerry who has not signed onto the
single payer bill that Sanders has put before the Senate.* <b><br>
I plan to
demonstrate at Kerry's Boston office just two blcoks from the MGH on
Cambridge St. - alone if need be - from 4:30 to 5:30 this Friday and
every Friday</b> - until that despicable narcissist signs onto the
Sanders
Senate single payer bill. After the demonstration we can have coffee
and plan our next steps if people wish. SPREAD THE WORD.<br>
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If other organizations and people do not want to come, then let them
propose something better or simply admit that they do not care enough
to take action.<br>
Obama and Kerry - two peas in a pod, a crowded pod indeed, since the
insurers are also bedded down in there.<br>
jw<br>
p.s. Neal and Lynch should also be targetted since they have not signed
onto HR 676.<br>
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<div><font size="6">
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We’ve Lit a Fire, Now We Need to Fan It</p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font size="4"><b>A Populist Health
Care Rebellion is Brewing</b></font></font></p>
<p><span><b><font face="Verdana">By Kevin Zeese</font></b></span></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Last week when I was one of the Baucus
Eight<span>,</span> so-named because eight of us were arrested before
Sen. Baucus<span><font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <font
color="#000000" face="Verdana" size="2">urging single payer health
care,</font> </font></span> I hopped others would join us.<span> </span>Yesterday,
they did.<span> </span>And, the single payer movement grew stronger.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Before the hearing I joined nearly 50
people in a spirited protest outside the U.S. senate letting all who
entered know we wanted a single payer national health care plan.<span>
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">And, inside there were a series of
protests.<span> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">As the hearing began, and Sen. Baucus
was speaking a group of about 30 nurses, dressed in their red hospital
uniforms, stood up and turned their backs on Baucus. <span> </span>They
had pinned to their backs: “Nurses Say: Stop AHIP. <span> </span>Pass
Single Payer.” (AHIP is America’s Health Insurance Plans – the health
insurance industry lobby.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">The nurses left the room to applause.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Then doctors, nurses and advocates
stood up and one by one and spoke directly to Senator Baucus.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">DeAnn McEwen, a registered nurse from
California said: “Today is Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Florence
Nightingale said <span><font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"
size="4"> <font color="#000000">'</font></font></span>if there were
none to hope for any better, there would never be any better.<span><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font color="#000000">'</font> </font></span>
This country needs a single payer health care system.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Then, another RN from California<span><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font color="#000000"
face="Verdana" size="2">, Sue Cannon,</font> </font></span>stood up:
“People at the table have failed Americans for 30 years. We want single
payer at the table. We want guaranteed health care so we can give the
care we need, when we need to give it.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">She was followed by Dr. Judy Dasovich
of Springfield, Missouri, who said “We request that single payer
advocates be allowed at the table. Health care should be for patients
not for profits.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Dr. Steven Fenichel of Ocean City, NJ
followed adding: “It’s a sense of outrage that brings me to your Senate
chambers today. These people were entrusted by the American people to
serve the American people’s interests. And they are just serving the
interests of the insurance companies and drug companies – the people be
damned.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Jerry Call, a member of Physicians for
a National Health Program from South Thomaston, Maine was the final
advocate from the audience, speaking for the majority of Americans shut
out from the discussion, and saying: “Sixty percent of Americans and
sixty percent of physicians want single payer.<span> </span>Why
aren’t sixty percent of the people up front not single payer
representatives?” </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">All five were arrested and taken away
for booking. They were charged with Disruption of Congress, the same
offense I will go to court for on May 26<sup>th</sup>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Now, 13 have been arrested – the
Baucus 8 have morphed into the Baucus 13 – demanding a seat at the
table; merely urging that the most popular health reform among the
people as well as among doctors, nurses and economists be part of the
conversation.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Outside as each new Baucus criminal
was walked before the crowd, now approximately 75 people -- they were
all cheered.<span> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">These are the democracy heroes.<span>
</span>These are the types of people that change the equation from
money and profits to people and human rights.</font><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Tomorrow, there will be a march to the
senate, a rally and an afternoon of nearly 1,000 people lobbying for
real health care reform. An end to corporate insurance profiting from
illness and not allowing doctors to practice medicine and nurses to
care for patients.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">We have lit a fire, now we must fan
the flame into a populist movement that breaks the corporate
stranglehold in Washington, DC.<span> </span>The people need to be
organized, persistent and insistent.<span> </span><span> </span>We
need to grow the single payer movement so it cannot be ignored.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">More:</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Visit ProsperityAgenda.US and join in
efforts for single payer.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">For a series of photos showing
nurses and doctors being arrested in protest for single payer health
care click the link below: <span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16992253@N06/3526172446/"
target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/16992253@N06/3526172446/</a></font></font></font></p>
<div>Kevin Zeese is Executive Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air
and Clean Politics (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.freshaircleanpolitics.net/" target="_blank">www.FreshAirCleanPolitics.net</a>)
whose projects include Voters for Peace (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.votersforpeace.us/" target="_blank">www.VotersForPeace.US</a>.,
Prosperity Agenda (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.prosperityagenda.us/" target="_blank">www.ProsperityAgenda.US</a>),
True Vote <span>and Climate Security (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/" target="_blank">www.GlobalClimateSecurity.org</a>)</span></div>
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<p><i>"I have to tell
you something. I cannot help being happy. I've struggled against it but
to no
good. Apart from an odd five minutes here and there, I have been happy
all my
life. There is, I am well aware, no virtue whatever in this. It results
from a
combination of heredity, health, good fortune, and shallow intellect." </i>~Arthur
Marshall</p>
<p><i>I have guarded
myself more carefully against contented people than against contagious
diseases." ~</i>Victoria Wolff</p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rule19.org"><br>
rule19.org</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://upandout.org"><br>
UPandOUT.org</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://azapoi.org"><br>
AZAPOI.org</a>
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<p><i>"I have to tell
you something. I cannot help being happy. I've struggled against it but
to no
good. Apart from an odd five minutes here and there, I have been happy
all my
life. There is, I am well aware, no virtue whatever in this. It results
from a
combination of heredity, health, good fortune, and shallow intellect." </i>~Arthur
Marshall</p>
<p><i>I have guarded
myself more carefully against contented people than against contagious
diseases." ~</i>Victoria Wolff</p>
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pf soto
<a href="http://rule19.org"><br>
rule19.org</a>
<a href="http://upandout.org"><br>
UPandOUT.org</a>
<a href="http://azapoi.org"><br>
AZAPOI.org</a>
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