[PAA-Discuss] action alerts

[Juli3 at aol.com]

1) Our phone  calls, faxes & protests worked! Speaker Pelosi keeping 
promise to allow  Weiner amendment & vote. 
CALL AGAIN. urge YOUR  Rep. to vote YES on Rep. Weiner's single-payer 
amendment.  
Support the only  universal, comprehensive, cost-effective solution to the 
health care  crisis Medicare for All!  
202-224-3121



 
2) _http://mobilizeforhealthcare-tx.ning.com/_ 
(http://mobilizeforhealthcare-tx.ning.com/)  Houston  Mobilization for Health Care Action Network 
(Hou-HCAN) new single payer  advocate Ning social network. 

3) We need an ATTORNEY and law student to  observe at the action we are 
planning at a Houston health insurance  company

4) We need someone willing to serve as a  Media Contact to be listed on the 
 press release. Your name, email & have telephone available to answer calls 
 & refer media to appropriate folks.
 
5) IngridT making black tshirts for the action  "Patients NOT Profits". 
Would CodePinks be willing to  read some of the NAMES OF THE DEAD on the 
outside at the insurance company  action? Black tshirts & slogans+pink netting 
symbolizing the blood &  "CodePink" action needed.

5) See _http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/--_ 
(http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/--)    8 people are sitting-in the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman! right  
now! Thursday, November 5, 2009.  Sit in  folks demanding that he stop 
blocking serious health care  system change and taking money from the insurance 
industry. Massive  campaign donations and lobbying spending of the insurance 
industry block real  reform that would provide everyone in America with 
access to health care. When  40+,000 people are dying annually due to lack of 
health care it is a moral  imperative that America act now to provide health 
care to all. Please take the  following steps:
 
1. Call Lieberman and tell him to support real health insurance reform and  
stop taking insurance money to cloud his judgement. His numbers are: (202)  
224-4041and (860) 549-8463. (I can't get thru on either numbers to a real 
human. the  mail-box is "Full".) 
2. Sign the petition urging Lieberman to stop taking insurance money. 
_Click here to sign the petition now_ 
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2159) . Urge everyone  you know to sign 
the petition. 
3. _Make a donation to support the Mobilization_ 
(https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338) . Donate  
for bail money for those sitting in Lieberman’s office. 
Since beginning just over one month ago thousands have signed up to  
participate in “Patients before Profits” sit-ins and over 920 have signed up 
willing to risk  arrest. By the end of this week the Mobilization will have held 
32 sit-ins in  28 different cities with more than 150 arrests and over 220 
risking arrest. We  started out wanting 100 people to risk arrest at “
patients before profits”  sit-ins and now more than 920 have done so. The 
Mobilization needs to continue  to grow in order to achieve health care for all. 
There is anger growing in the country at the failure of Congress to put  
forward a national health care plan that provides health care to everyone in  
the United States. It is important that people speak out now to push 
Congress  and the president to achieve this urgent moral imperative. When President 
 Obama ran for office he raised hopes in Americans that health policy would 
be  reformed so that no one would go without health care. When the reform 
process  began he talked about universal coverage now millions will go 
without health  care access ten years from after the reform bill is passed. That 
is  unacceptable. We need to demand that health care reform achieve the basic 
goal  – that no one go without health care in a country as wealthy as 
America. We  can achieve that goal if we speak up now and demand action. The 
United States  has been effectively providing health care to senior citizens for 
40 years  through Medicare, we can do the same for everyone. 
Thank you for your support. Please take action now.
Courtney

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