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Creative Aging with THE RAGING GRANNIES

by Bill Carpenter ( wcarpent [at] ccsf.edu )
Wednesday Jun 17th, 2009 9:58 AM

The Raging Grannies "bared all" at the Creative Aging Symposium held in San Francisco, June 15, 2009.

Posing as the scheduled entertainment for the symposium, they took the stage and made the case for Single Payer Health Care Reform.

The Symposium was sponsored, in part, by an insurance company, and also gets funds from AARP which acts very much like a corporate insurance company and is against any health care reform that would eliminate insurance companies.

IN THE VIDEO: Some members of the crowd look suspicious, others sing along with the Grannies who croon, "We won't feed CEO's anymore!" to the tune of This Little Light of Mine.

Eight-minute QuickTime movie. 36MB.

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by Bill Carpenter Wednesday Jun 17th, 2009 9:58 AM

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§AARP's Tradition of Betrayal

by Single Payer Supporter

Friday Oct 23rd, 2009 12:33 PM

You can read about this Nonprofit in name only in Counterpunch article (link below)

According to Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) some of these products sold by AARP are total rip offs.

PNHP calls AARP "part of the problem and not part of the solution. It is nothing but an insurance (and financial) broker disguised as an advocacy group - and they will never take on the health insurance industry. (It) represent(s) the insurance industry (and its own self-interest) rather than (its members and) the public welfare in discussions about health reform."

Good going, Grannies, protesting at a conference supported by AARP and making the audience singalong about Single Payer!

http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman10232009.html

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§Rage on!

by Maureen & Shiu

Friday Oct 23rd, 2009 12:57 PM

AARP is really a front group for insurance companies, pretending to serve the best interests of older adults. No to Obamacare. Start over. Single Payer. Nothing less. Thanks Raging Grannies for all you do!

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