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The Dying at Die-In at Ferry Building

by Endenizen's photos
Photos under Creative Commons License by Endenizen on flickr
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Many stopped to stare, others continued their holiday shopping...averting eyes...avoiding the issues?
§Many participated
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Gathering to begin the demo
§One of the Dead
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§organize!
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§marching with hangers
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§Dying in front of tony shops
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Sur la Table ou sur la sidewalk?
§Observers
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§After Dying in front of the Ferry Building...
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...march along the waterfront
§Observers along the waterfront
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§Second Dying
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Behind the Ferry Bldg in the farmer's market, second die-in
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Democratic Senator Nelson of Nebraska has added an anti-abortion amendment to the Senate version of the "healthcare" bill. See Democracy Now, 12/8/09 at
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/8/headlines#8

"Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska meanwhile has introduced an amendment adding strict anti-abortion language into the Senate healthcare reform bill. Nelson’s measure mirrors the controversial language included in the House bill sponsored by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak. The measures would bar any woman who receives government health insurance subsidies from enrolling in an insurance plan that covers abortion."

Immediately before this news item 8 is news item 7 privatizing the "public option" being done by the Senate Democrats:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/8/headlines#7
"Senate Dem Plan Would Privatize “Public Option”
On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats have drafted a “compromise” measure that would essentially hand over the so-called “public option” to private insurance companies. Under the proposal, the government would no longer establish a public option to compete with insurers. Instead, the federal Office of Personnel Management would hire the insurance companies to run the health plans."

And we must always remember that Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid is anti-abortion and Democratic Rep Dennis Kucinich was anti-abortion before he ran for president when he suddenly became "pro-choice" but not pro-abortion, and has continued to play the role of being the fig-leaf for the Democrats, the twin party of capitalism with the Republicans.

The Democratic Party exists to make sure you never vote Red or Green, which is why they mouth decent phrases when running for office and then once elected, sing the capitalist tune, just like the Republicans. Democrat Obama's "healthcare" bill not only has no single payer system, it does have provisions prohibiting healthcare to undocumented immigrants and to immigrants who are legally here but not citizens. This is called spreading epidemics as disease does not have anything to do with citizenship.

NO MILLIONAIRE CAN EVER REPRESENT THE WORKINGCLASS. Obama ran as a millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter. He always stated he would promote war in Afghanistan, which we know is to obtian the Caspian Sea oil and encircle mineral rich Russia. And his civil liberties record stinks too:
1. His Justice Department failed to drop the false charges against lawyer Lynne Stewart, and promotes sending this 70-year-old sick woman to jail, a viciously anti-woman act as well as an unconstitutional frame-up.
2. His Justice Department wants to drop the lawsuit against John Yoo, the torture memo lawyer who advised Pres. Bush and now is teaching "constitutional" law at UC Berkeley, much like the Nazi lawyers taught law.
3. He promotes torture and false imprisonment at Guantanamo and Bagram, and all over Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. He promotes torture and false imprisonment of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land.
5. He promotes the death penalty. This position alone, which he has always held, should mandate that you never vote for him. WHAT DID YOU DEMOCRATS THINK YOU WERE DOING VOTING FOR THIS FASCIST THUG?

If you want peace, single payer healthcare or socialized medicine (which socialized medicine the US Congress and the president have courtesy the taxpayers), free abortion on demand with no restrictions, amnesty for undocumented immigrants, abolition of the death penalty and prisons, a clean environment, no militarization or privatization of the schools, money for jobs and not for bank bailouts, abolition of the stock market and private ownership of the means of production (a socialist demand) and much more, YOU HAVE TO VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE AT ALL LEVELS OF OFFICE. Democrat Obama started at a lower level of office, playing the same con game all Democrats do. YOU CANNOT EXPECT ANYTHING TO IMPROVE IF YOU VOTE FOR EVIL. If you want things to get better, you have to vote either
(a) Peace & Freedom Party (a socialist party) at
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
or
(b) Green Party
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/
and
http://www.gp.org/index.php
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