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Headlines...
Climate Talks Suspended After Mass Walkout
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-0
Lieberman Tells Reid To His Face: I'll Vote Against Current Health Care Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14
Did the Yes Men Punk Canada in Copenhagen?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-4
Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-5
Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Torture Case
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-6
Pakistan Rebuffs US on Taliban Crackdown
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14-11
and more...
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Video...
Vandana Shiva Speaks at Climate Summit Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/14-0
Norman Solomon on Afghan Escalation and Healthcare Fiasco
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/14-1
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Views...
Paul Krugman | Disaster and Denial
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14-1
Glenn Greenwald | War and Public Opinion
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14-0
Chris Hedges | Gravel's Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14
Madeleine Bunting | Protesters in Seattle Warned Us What Was Coming, but We Didn't Listen
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14-3
Joan Chittister | Copenhagen: The Beginning of the End, and, If So, Whose?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14-7
Danny Schechter | As War Bleeds Central Africa, Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet to Do Much About It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/14-5
and more...
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Newswire...
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Suit Seeking Accountability for Guantanamo Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/14-18
Center for Biological Diversity: Suit to Challenge Protection Delay for 144 Species
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/14-13
CREW and Obama Administration Settle Lawsuit Over Missing Bush White House Emails
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/14-11
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC): New Report Demonstrates Food Industry Self-Regulation Has Failed; Junk Food Still Extensively Marketed to Children
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/14-7
and more...
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Monday, December 14, 2009
CommonDreams.org News & Views 12-14-09
BoldProgressives.org Alert from Adam Green
Here ya go......
Joe Lieberman announced yesterday he'll help Republicans kill any real health care reform.
Can you join 145,000 others in telling Democratic leaders to punish Joe Lieberman now?
Laura Lynne,
Sen. Joe Lieberman announced Sunday that he will join Republicans in blocking a vote on any real health care reform bill -- including any public option and even the fake "compromise" floated last week.
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein writes, "At this point, Lieberman is just torturing liberals. That is to say, he's willing to directly cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score."
Enough is enough. Can you join 145,000 others in telling Democratic leaders to punish Joe Lieberman by taking his committee chairmanship? Click here.
Lieberman was asked if he'd accept losing his powerful committee chairmanship as a consequence of blocking reform, and he answered, "Oh, God no." Our message to Sen. Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders says:
"Any Democratic senators -- including Joe Lieberman -- who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care reform that includes a public option."
Sign the petition here - we'll deliver it to Senate Democrats.
Today, we are releasing a new poll with Howard Dean's Democracy for America that shows wide support for our petition:
Democratic voters think Senate Democrats should take away Lieberman's chairmanship by 81% to 10%. Independents also support it by 13 points.
Democratic voters want Senate Democrats to use "reconciliation" by 73% to 13%. This requires just 51 votes to pass reform instead of 60, bypassing Lieberman.
Voters favor Howard Dean's "We Can Do Both" proposal (a public option PLUS a Medicare buy-in for ages 55-64) by 57% to 32%. Among Independents, it's 56% to 28% (2 to 1).
84% of Democratic voters want progressive primary challengers to congressional Democrats who oppose a public option.
This poll is being reported by many news outlets. Now, we need to back it up with grassroots action.
Can you join 145,000 others in telling Democratic leaders to punish Joe Lieberman? Click here.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
--Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Michael Snook, Natasha Patel, and the PCCC team
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REQUEST from Our Friend Jane Hamscher at FireDogLake
Here ya go.....
Thanks so much for signing our petition asking the Susan G. Komen foundation to remove Hadassah Lieberman as a "global ambassador" for the organization.
Forward the email below to your friends and family and ask them to do the same.
Thanks!
--Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake.com
P.S. - If you're on Twitter, tweet this, too:
I just signed a petition telling @komenforthecure to fire Hadassah Lieberman. Click here to sign: http://bit.ly/933aOm #hcr
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Hi,
Are you aware that the wife of Joe Lieberman - the man who once campaigned to eliminate the filibuster but is now threatening to use it against a public option - is a compensated "Global Ambassador" for Susan G. Komen for the cure?
As the world's biggest breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the cure has thrown considerable weight behind ensuring that any reform bill that comes out of Congress serves to improve the lives of their dependents. So why is Susan G. Komen for the cure using donations to pay the salary of Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Joe Lieberman, who pledged to kill any bill including a public option?
Will you sign our letter to Susan G. Komen for the cure, asking for Mrs. Lieberman to step down as a compensated "Global Ambassador?"
http://action.firedoglake.com/hadassah
Sign our letter to Susan G. Komen for the cure today:
"Mrs. Lieberman's relationship with Susan G. Komen for the cure is unethical and misleading. Important and often very personal donations made to Susan G. Komen for the cure to benefit the sick and dying are essentially undermining their intended use. And as Hadassah travels the globe under the banner of Susan G. Komen for the cure, decrying the inadequecies of our health care system and the desperate need to reform it, her husband is at home to kill the reform efforts we so desperately need.
I call for Susan G. Komen for the cure to ask Hadassah Lieberman to step down as a "Global Ambassador" for the organization in light of the inherent conflict of interest her continued presence brings."
Join us in calling on Susan G. Komen for the cure to remove Mrs. Lieberman as a compensated "Global Ambassador."
MoveOn.org Email Action
It's time for progressives to stop negotiating with themselves. Can you call Sens. Boxer and Feinstein right now and tell them to do whatever it takes to pass real health care reform with the public option that the majority of Americans want?
Senator Barbara Boxer
Phone: 202-224-3553
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Phone: 202-224-3841
Report your call
Dear MoveOn member,
Last week a handful of senators announced a deal on health care. Here's the catch: Almost no one knows what's in the deal yet-the only thing we do know is that it kills the heart of reform, the public option.
Rumors are flying about what exactly is in the deal, but lots of folks have latched on to the idea that the deal might allow some people over the age of 55 to buy into Medicare. The problem is, nobody knows if the Medicare premiums will be affordable and the program could be limited to very few people, so it's dangerous to assume it's great news.
Moreover, allowing a few folks to buy into Medicare won't accomplish the main goal of the public option: to provide competition to keep insurance companies honest and lower costs.1
The worst part? Democrats gave away the public option to appease conservatives. But Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are already threatening to block this watered down deal.2
It's time for progressives to stop bargaining with themselves. We need Senate Democrats to fight for the majority of voters who want a public option-and not let a few out-of-touch conservatives gut real reform. Can you call Sens. Boxer and Feinstein right now and tell them to do everything in their power to pass a bill with a public option and not to let a few senators hold health care reform hostage?
Senator Barbara Boxer
Phone: 202-224-3553
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Phone: 202-224-3841
Then, please report your call by clicking here:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSCA_2.FSCA_1&cp_id=1206&id=18268-17446569-F.oGjUx&t=3 To be clear, some of the ideas that were floated could be good ones-but in addition to a strong public option, not as a replacement for it. Expanding Medicare could give lots of people an affordable choice for quality care-if it's done right. But that's a big if, and it's a big mistake to embrace a compromise without knowing the details.
Even if all the rumored reforms turn out to be as good as possible (which is pretty unlikely), allowing some folks over 55 to buy in won't provide the competition that a public option will to keep insurance companies honest. And folks under 55-who will be required to buy insurance after reform passes-will still be left with no choice other than the big private insurers.
As long as there are no real consequences for conservatives' obstructionism, they'll keep demanding more and more concessions. It's time for Democrats in the Senate and the White House to be more aggressive by stripping Sen. Lieberman of his committee chairmanship, forcing the conservative senators to publicly stand with the Republicans so voters know whose side they're on, or even pushing health care reform through the reconciliation process, where they'd only need 50 votes.
Sens. Boxer and Feinstein need to know that voters in California will have their back if they keep fighting for the public option. Can you call them right now and tell them to reject the "compromise" and do whatever it takes to pass the bill with the public option?
Senator Barbara Boxer
Phone: 202-224-3553
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Phone: 202-224-3841
Then, please report your call by clicking here:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSCA_2.FSCA_1&cp_id=1206&id=18268-17446569-F.oGjUx&t=4 Thanks for all you do.
-Nita, Marika, Ilya, Kat, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Public Plan Perversion," The New Republic, December 12, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85776&id=18268-17446569-F.oGjUx&t=5
2. "Health Care Reform In Peril; Lieberman Threatens Filibuster Over Medicare Buy In," Talking Points Memo, December 13, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85777&id=18268-17446569-F.oGjUx&t=6
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Here Ya go..............
Mobilization Email Update ALERT!!
Dear Laura Lynne,
On Human Rights Day 2009, we made the demand for the right to health care loud and clear at Senator's offices across the country. In New York City, 9 people were arrested at Sen. Schumer's office declaring that Medicare for some is not good enough - we need Medicare for All. Rallies, vigils, and demonstrations happened in 20 places asking Senators to get behind the right to health and support Medicare for All.
Across the country, physicians, nurses, and patients are standing up for their right to health, by sitting down. Read Dr. Laura Boylan's statement on why she risked arrest here -http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/2009/12/11/dr-laura-boylan-demanding-medicare-for-all-arrested-at-schumer-protest/
In Washington DC, the Mobilization for Health Care for All delivered letters to Senate offices. The letters were attached to the backs of large cutouts of bodies, much like the chalk outlines seen at a murder scene. The number of adults who die each year in that Senator's state was printed on the front of the body with the words that there would be this number of fewer deaths if we had a Medicare for All health system.
Some of the Senate staffers reacted strongly to the appearance of the bodies, which was the intention. It is imperative that members of Congress and their staff understand the magnitude of suffering and death that would be prevented if they took steps to pass Medicare for all.
Senator Reid's Deputy Chief of Staff, David McCallum, met with the delegation that brought the body to his office. The group implored Mr. McCallum to, at the very least, give the majority of Americans who support Medicare for all the right to have S.A. 2837 debated on the floor of the Senate. We still have yet to see if this demand will be met. You can continue to voice your support for this debate by calling and writing your Senators today. Use Healthcare-NOW!'s click to call system here (http://tools.advomatic.com/35/hc-n/).
Serendipitously, the Mobilization for Healthcare for All was contacted by the daughter of Senator Phil Hart, for whom the building is named, on the day before the rally. She stated that International Human Rights Day was also her father's birthday and that he would have supported single payer, as she does.
The movement for single payer continues to grow and become more visible daily. It is unacceptable that at least 120 people die each day in the United States from lack of access to health care. This magnitude of suffering and death does not occur in any other industrialized nation.
We must continue to build the movement strong enough to demand that the profit-making insurance companies get out of our the system so that we can have the debate we need on Medicare for All. The evidence is clear that a single-payer national health care system is most humane, cost-effective way to provide quality, equitable health care to everyone in this country. Nothing less will do.
There are coalitions and organizations working on single-payer across the country. As we move into the holidays, and follow the unveiling of a health care bill that contains unfair mandates, unjust subsidies to the private insurance companies, and a unsustainable solution to the health care crisis, we must keep working for what we know is right. Join the work that is building and pushing forward across the country.
The Mobilization will continue to support actions where you can help happen. Please contact us at info@mobilizeforhealthcare.org if you want to plan an action supporting Medicare for All - info@mobilizeforhealthcare.org or call 1-800-453-1305.
Together in the struggle,
The Mobilization Team
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Stockton Record 12/13/09 Feature of Xmas Display
LLPrater
WAY TO GO FACEBOOK!
Also, just to clarify things for the Sheep in FarmVille, and the rats in Mafia Wars, YOU MORONS created over 2 million phoney Anti-Health Reform emails to Congress for FAKE MONEY over an issue of HISTORICAL importance, with LIFE & DEATH consequences in REAL PEOPLE's LIVES!! These scumbags are still there with phoney survey disguised as save the planet type climate change click-through now...Wonder how many phoney emails you IDIOTS are gonna gin up on that one so you can harvest your freaking crops or whatever!
But BE WARNED, FaceBooK: If you don't get your act together I propose a BOYCOTT!!
Friday, December 11, 2009
CommonDreams.Org 12/11/09 UPDATE
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Friday 12.11.09
Headlines...
Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-7
Global Civil Society Brandish Utopian Vision, Promise Climate Action
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-8
Grijalva Says The Senate Public Option Compromise Is A Non-Starter
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11
G77: 'US Should Spend as Much on Global Warming as War'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-1
New Proposal Would Pay Americans a Percent of Carbon Permits
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-2
Egyptians, with US Assistance, Building Wall Under Ground at Gaza
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-4
Despite Incongruity, Corporate Media Love a Good War Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-3
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Video...
Youth and Indigenous People Escalate Protests Inside the UN
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/11-1
Optional Illusion
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/11-0
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Views...
Sarah van Gelder: We Hold the Key to Copenhagen
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-3
Glenn Greenwald: The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-9
Donna Smith: Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-7
Antonia Zerbisias: My Spirits of Christmas Past and Present
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-2
Viggo Mortensen: 'Great Man' Theory? History Is Driven by the Little Guy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-10
Johann Hari: Leaders of the Rich World Are Enacting a Giant Fraud
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11
Ruth Conniff: The Tortured Logic of Health Care's Abortion Foes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-4
Jeremy Scahill: Contractors Watching Contractors
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-0
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Newswire...
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): New Bill from Senator Cantwell Would Not Adequately Reduce Emissions
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/11-9
Climate Justice Action and Climate Justice Now!: Groups March Under The 'System Change Not Climate Change' Banner On Saturday's Climate March
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/11-7
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/11
and more...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Event Alert from Dan Hodges
Dear List Members for ActforSinglePayer/Mobilization for Health Care for All:
Mark your calendar: * Saturday, Jan. 30 * there will be a Big Meeting to gather the whole Bay Area Direct Action for Single Payer tribe to make plans for future actions.
Despite
* the great track record of actions in our brief but glorious history (sit-in at Blue Shield, occupation of Pelosi's office, die-in last Saturday at the Ferry Building)
* the expressed interest of many people from many different organizations and scenes in taking strong action for health care we can believe in, and
* the need for a strong voice for single payer to continue in the coming year,
attendance at our evening meetings has been dwindling.
Meanwhile, whatever mess happens at the federal level, single-payer activists and progressive California legislators will be putting on a big push to pass single-payer in California (a third time) in 2010.
So the spirited group of die-hards that has been coming to meetings is going to plan a lively, interesting, motivating, and inclusive meeting to bring us all together again and get ready for more action. You won't want to miss it! In addition to the 80 or so people on this list, more than 100 (I think maybe more like 200, sorry I don't remember more specifically) Bay Area people signed up to take direct action on single payer through the web site of the national Mobilization for Health Care Now. There are a lot of us -- so let's organize! Tell your friends, comrades, allies, etc. Details to follow in future emails.
In other news:
* January 11 (a Monday) the traditional annual medical and nursing students' Sacramento rally for single payer will be joined this year by lots of other organizations (Health Care for All California, Single Payer Now, CNA, CTA, CSEA, California Alliance of Retired Americans, League of Women Voters, Council of Churches, Wellstone Democratic Club, and more) to make a huge presence for single payer at the Capitol. Many of us have to work, but if you can possibly attend, it will be a great experience and your presence will make it greater. There will be buses leaving from the Bay Area -- details to follow on that too.
Dan Hodges
Chair, Health Care for All-California
Event Alert from Dan Hodges
Dear List Members for ActforSinglePayer/Mobilization for Health Care for All:
Mark your calendar: * Saturday, Jan. 30 * there will be a Big Meeting to gather the whole Bay Area Direct Action for Single Payer tribe to make plans for future actions.
Despite
* the great track record of actions in our brief but glorious history (sit-in at Blue Shield, occupation of Pelosi's office, die-in last Saturday at the Ferry Building)
* the expressed interest of many people from many different organizations and scenes in taking strong action for health care we can believe in, and
* the need for a strong voice for single payer to continue in the coming year,
attendance at our evening meetings has been dwindling.
Meanwhile, whatever mess happens at the federal level, single-payer activists and progressive California legislators will be putting on a big push to pass single-payer in California (a third time) in 2010.
So the spirited group of die-hards that has been coming to meetings is going to plan a lively, interesting, motivating, and inclusive meeting to bring us all together again and get ready for more action. You won't want to miss it! In addition to the 80 or so people on this list, more than 100 (I think maybe more like 200, sorry I don't remember more specifically) Bay Area people signed up to take direct action on single payer through the web site of the national Mobilization for Health Care Now. There are a lot of us -- so let's organize! Tell your friends, comrades, allies, etc. Details to follow in future emails.
In other news:
* January 11 (a Monday) the traditional annual medical and nursing students' Sacramento rally for single payer will be joined this year by lots of other organizations (Health Care for All California, Single Payer Now, CNA, CTA, CSEA, California Alliance of Retired Americans, League of Women Voters, Council of Churches, Wellstone Democratic Club, and more) to make a huge presence for single payer at the Capitol. Many of us have to work, but if you can possibly attend, it will be a great experience and your presence will make it greater. There will be buses leaving from the Bay Area -- details to follow on that too.
Dan Hodges
Chair, Health Care for All-California
BIG MEETING JAN 30,2010
The details for our Big Meeting on Jan. 30 to plan our next steps are as follows.
Time: 10 am to noon
Place: South Berkeley Senior Center - near the intersection of Ellis St. and Ashby St.
Nearest BART station: Ashby BART, 2 blocks away from So. Berkeley Senior Center
Dan Hodges
Chair, Health Care for All-California
Holiday Lights 2009
LLPrater
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
BENEDICT LIEberman: Payback's a BEYOTCH!!!
Our new ad targeting Joe Lieberman is making big waves -- from the New York Times to Rachel Maddow to Connecticut media.
Click here to see Rachel Maddow feature our ad -- and then, please chip in $5 to help keep it on the air.
Laura Lynne,
Wow. One day after announcing our new TV ad pressuring Sen. Joe Lieberman on public option, the momentum is tremendous.
Rachel Maddow played our Lieberman ad on national TV and said, "That's what it looks like when liberals push back!" Dozens of other media also reported on our ad. (See media links below.)
Nearly 2,000 people chipped in to help air this ad -- and now, we're aiming to expand our buy in DC. Can you chip in $5 today? Click here.
News broke yesterday that progressive and conservative senators are meeting to strike a final deal on health care and that Lieberman thinks his obstruction makes him "relevant." By expanding our ad in DC, we can tell other senators to ignore Lieberman -- he's not even representing his own constituents.
Check out this example of Lieberman's arrogance, in direct response to our TV ad. From the Washington Post's Greg Sargent:
A spokesman for Joe Lieberman, whose talent for annoying liberals seems to have grown exponentially in the heat of the health care fight, is now responding to a liberal group's new ad hammering the Senator by dismissing the public option as the "agenda of narrow ideological interest groups."
Seriously? 68% of Connecticut voters who support the public option are a "narrow ideological interest?" This guy deserves to feel more heat.
Click here to help us expand our ad buy in DC by chipping in $5.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
--Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Michael Snook, Forrest Brown, and the PCCC team
BLOG COMMENTS ABOUR OUR NEW AD
"Sorry, I could donate $5. But since that wasn't enough, $25 will have to do. Don't you dare ask for less from me!" -- ontheleftcoast, on Daily Kos
"As a Connecticut resident, I LOVE THIS." -- loquaciousmusic, on Wonkette
"Progressive Change Campaign Committee strikes again! Thank you, PCCC, for speaking for all progressives everywhere." -- Querent, on Huffington Post
"I've been waiting for this ad! Yes!!!!!!! I just donated $100, and will keep donating if we keep on putting the pressure on Joe." -- one love, Daily Kos
Click here to help expand our ad buy in DC by chipping in $5. (Or, um, more :)
NATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE OF OUR AD
New York Times: Anti-Lieberman Ad Points to 'Public Option' Support
Washington Post: CT-Sen: Liberals attack Lieberman in ads
Washington Post Plumline (Greg Sargent): Lieberman Spox: Public Option Is "Agenda of Narrow Ideological Interest Groups"
CBS: Progressive Group Blasts Joe Lieberman Over Public Option
ABC: Lieberman vs. Liberals 'for Lieberman'
NBC: First Read
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow covers PCCC Lieberman ad
CNN: Liberal group takes aim at Lieberman
Huffington Post: New Anti-Lieberman Ad Gets Personal About Public Option
TPM: Liberal Group Takes Aim At Lieberman For Obstructing Public Option
Daily Kos: Payback time! Lieberman pressured in new TV ad
Washington Monthly: Targeting Joe In Connecticut
Boston Globe: Liberal group slams Lieberman
Wonkette: Connecticut For Lieberman Party Displeased With Joe Lieberman Lately!
Politico: PCCC mocks Lieberman
Click here to help expand our ad buy in DC by chipping in $5.
CONNECTICUT MEDIA COVERAGE OF OUR AD
The Day Newspaper (Connecticut): "It's all about Joe"
Hartford Courant: Liberal Group's Ad Targets Lieberman
MyLeftNutmeg Blog: Connecticut For Lieberman
FOX Connecticut local evening news
NBC Connecticut: Ad: "It's All About Joe"
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Mobilization for HealthCare for ALL Update
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The Mobilization for Health Care for All ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794230/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ) is escalating the effort for real health care reform.
This Thursday, on International Human Rights Day, the Mobilization will have 18 actions in 13 states and Washington, DC ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794231/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ). (Support these efforts by clicking here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794232/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ).)
We are making the point that health care is a human right - that means everyone should have access to health care.
This is not just a nebulous right, but a life and death issue. We all know that 45,000 people die in the United States because of lack of access to health care. And, we know that more than a million have gone bankrupt due to health care problems. If we met the human rights standard of providing health care to all then these problems would diminish greatly.
These Mobilization actions ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794233/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ) will urge support for Sen. Bernie Sander's single payer amendment. And, we are also telling the senate to allow states to put in place a state-level single payer system. We know improved Medicare for All is the solution to the health crisis in America and we will continue to advocate for it.
Please support our efforts ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794234/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ). We are not going to give-up and accept the inadequate bills being considered in Congress. The problems in American health care will continue even if the best of these bills pass. We know that in order to get real health care reform that ongoing organizing will be essential.
We are not going to stop but cannot build the movement needed without your support. Click here to donate now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794235/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ).
To find an action in your state click here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794236/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ).
Thank you for your participation and your support.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
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Call Your Senators Today! ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759164/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders )
Call your Senators. ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759163/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) Tell them you want them to vote for Senators Sanders, Burris and Brown's amendment number 2837. Call today ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759161/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). Call now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759160/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ).
Click "Call Now" ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759158/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) to connect to your Senators and find a call script. It's easy and toll free! If you know your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 866-220-0044. To email your Senators, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759165/28803/goto:http://www.change.org/actions/view/please_support_sen_bernie_sanders_single-payer_amendments ).
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Dear Laura Lynne:
The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor. This week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont filed Senate Amendment No. 2837, and there are two additional original co-sponsors of this amendment, Senator Roland Burris of Illinois and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
The idea that healthcare is a basic human right that could and should be delivered to each and every person in this nation is not a new one. Our President knows that; our Congress knows that. But this struggle to reform the broken, profit-driven system has carried us a very long way from the spot that would allow us to finally extend that basic human right to all.
We've drifted off to talking about excise taxes and insurance exchanges and bending the cost curves. Amendment 2837 brings us back to the basics.
What's in a number? 45,000 people die every year in this nation without access to healthcare.
Medicare has its flaws, but overall it has provided seniors and the disabled with the best access to care that this nation could offer since the 1960s. But the rest of us have not been so lucky with our access to healthcare. Among those not covered by Medicare or the VA, the numbers of unnecessary deaths have soared; personal bankruptcies due to medical crisis have soared.
What is a number? Poverty among seniors has dropped more than 60 percent since the adoption of Medicare.
The healthcare reform effort has largely ignored the single-payer solution. Public financing and private delivery of healthcare through a Medicare for All type system would be an elegant, cost effective and proven way to fix much of what is broken while retaining that sense of personal choice over healthcare decisions that Americans value so highly. Yet, the discussion has been muted by the powerful profit-based insurance and health industry interests that stand to gain so very much by expanding and entrenching their hold over the U.S. healthcare system through this reform process.
What's in a number? Millions of Americans file for personal bankruptcy - one every 12 seconds - because medical crisis hit them too hard. And of those bankrupt folks, two-thirds had health insurance.
The time draws short to weigh in clearly with your Senators. And with a yes vote on this amendment, Senators send us the message that they heard us, that they will keep fighting with us until the day when this nation no longer leaves the weak, the sick and the poor behind in the delivery of its most basic human rights.
Call your Senators. ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759156/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) Tell them you want them to vote for Senators Sanders, Burris and Brown's amendment number 2837. Call today ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759162/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/now ). Call now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759155/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). Insist on a vote for moral and fiscal sanity.
To call and find a script, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759154/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). It's easy and toll free! Or, if you know your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 866-220-0044. To email your Senators, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759159/28803/goto:http://www.change.org/actions/view/please_support_sen_bernie_sanders_single-payer_amendments ).
What's in a number? Everything. Senate Amendment No. 2837. Everyone in, nobody out.
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Healthcare-NOW! National Staff
P.S. Actions are being planned next week on Dec. 10th on Human Rights Day. Find out more here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759167/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/2009/12/03/day-of-action-human-rights-day-dec-10th/ ).
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