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San Francisco | Health, Housing, and Public ServicesSit-In Demonstrators Deliver Surprises to SF Blue Shield
About 200 people demonstrated with surprises for Blue Shield in San Francisco today to demand that the company stop blocking health care reform. Street theater props included a giant Octopus of Death and cigars for the "Billionaires for Wealthcare". The Billionaires were accompanied by their own French maid Fifi who served them in wine glasses emblazoned with the Blue Shield logo. Participants included:
Health Care for All-California, Vote Health, Code Pink, AFSCME Council 57, Single Payer Now, Pride at Work, LAGAI-Queer Insurrection, Labor for Single Payer, Wellstone Democratic Club, Direct Action to Stop the War, California Physicians Alliance, Gray Panthers, Billionaires for Wealthcare Satire Group and the Raging Grannies.
§A Billionaire for Wealthcare mocks the Blue Shield Attitude
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photo by RA Fifi the French maid at the ready
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The better to serve the Blue Shield supporting billionaires!
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...and buy a congressman they will!
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Hmmm...a check the night before revealed that the "damage" was already done. The single payer sticker was spotted after the demo, however.
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