Wednesday, June 15, 2011

THURSDAY RALLY in SAN FRANCISCO


Single Payer Now

June 16 SF Rally
9 to 11am – 4th & Howard
Medicare For All
End Private Insurance
See Speaker's List Below
Can you attend?

Dear Healthcare Activist,

I hope to see you tomorrow at our rally for Medicare for All. See leaflet pasted below and attached.

We will rally at the private health insurance conference at 4th St and Howard. We have great speakers, music, and puppets.

We could use some more volunteers at 8am to help distribute placards, chant sheets, marshal participants, and collect donations.

Please let us know if you can attend and if you can come early. We encourage you to forward this alert.

___ I plan to attend the rally.
___ I can come at 8am to help coordinate the rally.
___ I have forwarded this alert.

Thank you,
Don Bechler
Chair - Single Payer Now
415-695-7891
www.singlepayernow.net

Confirmed speakers
Tim Paulson - SFLC Executive Director
Hank Abrons - President – Physicians for a National Health Program – California
Rev. Israel Alvaran - Community Organizer UNITE Hotel HERE Local 2
Don Bechler - Chair - Single Payer Now
Greg Brockbank - President of Healthcare for All – California
Maria Guillen - Service Employees International Union 1021
Chinese Progressive Assn. - representatives
Coalition of Labor Union Women - Alice Lindstrom Davis
Jean Taylor - Church Women United
DeAnn McEwen - California Nurses Assn., National Nurses Organizing Committee Council of Presidents
Karen Smulevitz - California Alliance for Retired Americans
Kim Alvarenga - District Director for Assembly Member Tom Ammiano
Beverly Ng - from Senator Mark Leno's office

Rally for Healthcare
Medicare for All
End Private Insurance

Join us on June 16th at the convention of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), San Francisco at 9am for a rally in support of Medicare for All and against the insurance industry.
From June 15 to 17, the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) will be meeting at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.  These are the corporations who insure the healthy and avoid the sick. Their Thursday, June 16 program features Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty and Senator Tom Daschle. These speakers oppose proposals that remove the health insurance industry from our healthcare.

June 16 Thursday
9am to 11am
Moscone Center West
Howard St at 4th St – SF

( Powell St BART/MUNI Stop )
Rally endorsed by California Alliance for Retired Americans, California Health Professional Student Alliance, California Nurses Assn., Gray Panthers, Healthcare for All, Older Women's League, OPEIU Local 3, Physicians for a National Health Program, Unitarian Universalists for Peace-SF, Wellstone Democratic Club, & Single Payer Now
For more information visit: www.singlepayernow.net or call 415-695-7891

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www.SinglePayerNow.net | 415-695-7891 | dbechler@value.net


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