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Picket Sebelius, SF | |
Date | Monday June 22 |
Time | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
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Location Details | |
in front of the Fairmont Hotel. | |
Event Type | Protest |
Organizer/Author | Powder |
Picket Secretary Sebelius at 11 a.m. in front of the Fairmont Hotel. Tell her to put single-payer on the table.
Monday's Rally Has National Significance We need you there! We need your help calling our phone tree! Picket for Single Payer Healthcare At a Luncheon for Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius 11am Mon., June 22 SF Fairmont Hotel - 950 Mason Dear Single Payer Activist, Please picket with us on Monday, June 22, from 11am to 12:15 at a $500 Democratic Party luncheon featuring Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The picket will be at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel at 950 Mason. It is very important that Secretary Sebelius knows there is a vibrant movement for single payer. As you know, discussion of Medicare for All ( HR 676 ) has been ruled of the table. Monday's picket is a very important part of the national campaign to have single payer ideas discussed. We need your participation. We need you to call 5 or 10 or 25 people on our Action Alert list. Asking someone in a live conversation is the best way to build events. And over 50% of our activists do not have email. Attached is a leaflet. Please forward this alert. Please let us know how you can help. __ I plan to attend the picket. __ I can help call our phone tree. __ I will post a leaflet. __ My organization _________ endorses the picket. __ I have forwarded this alert. __ I can help hold a large banner on Monday. Suggested signs include Healthcare Yes! Insurance Companies No! Support HR 676 Stop Banning Discussion of Single Payer Legislation Put Single Payer on the Table Medicare for All On June 16 on NPR radio Sebelius said Interviewer: Can you say flat out it's just never going to be single-payer health insurance, and we're going to try to write it, if we can, so that itwon't ever be? Secretary Sebelius: "Oh I think that's very much the case,." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105442888 At this moment, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, the California Nurses Assn., the SF Gray Panthers, Act Up East Bay, International Socialist Organization, and Single Payer Now have endorsed Monday's picket Thank you. Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now http://www.singlepayernow.net 415-695-7891 |
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