Minnesota's March for Healthcare - in conjuction with the nationwide movement of marches on Sunday, September 13 to demand real healthcare reform.
In cooperation with TakeActionMN
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 12 noon
Phillips Park
1530 E. Franklin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN
Speakers:
Congressman Keith Ellison
John Marty, State Senator and Candidate for Governor
Reverend Grant Stevenson
Erin Murphy, State Representative
For more information visit www.march4healthcare.com
email: mnhealthcarereform@gmail.com
[This event is not sponsored or affiliated with Organizing for America. It is a truly grassroots action at its most powerful! and finest!]
Here are some of the things we will be discussing at the Health Care Forum on May 12th. I hope you can make it!
Did you know:
Consider the following facts:
· 50 million people are uninsured and many more are underinsured;
· 37% of Americans report rationing care due to a lack of healthcare coverage;
· The uninsured are more likely to go to the emergency room for care and 20% more likely to be admitted to intensive care;
· 20% more likely to die when receiving intensive care within Intensive Care Units (ICU);
· Many of us go without psychiatric care;
· 18,000 people die each year because of a lack of medical insurance;
· Health care costs are rising at two times the rate of inflation (a major contributor to foreclosures)
· Administrative costs account for 31% of healthcare expenditures (by comparison, that is double the proportion in Canada).
SOURCE: Did You Know, MN Universal Health Care Coalition
We're going to be discussing the Minnesota Universal Health Care Initiative at this meeting. Then we're going to talk about ways to support it or alternatives. All are welcome.
It's possible you haven't heard from me since the election. I've not been idle. I had a house party in December. I hosted a service event on Martin Luther King Day which was wildly successful, collecting over two tons of food for Neighborhood House Food Shelf and 25 plus units of blood for Memorial Blood. I recently participated in a recap/potluck regarding that event hosted by fellow volunteer Linda Zwicky. During that party, I discovered what I'm doing next. Ever since the election, I haven't been settled or sure of what the next step for me personally would be with respect to our new administration. I am keenly interested in community gardening and have taken steps to educate myself in this area in hopes of fostering community gardens all over the Twin Cities. My thought was to throw myself wholly into the urban gardening movement and consider that to be my contribution to the new administration. After all, food democracy was a worthy and concrete endeavor and with the economic crisis looming, it seemed like a justice issue as much as a health and environmental issue. So when I attended the recap of our service event last weekend, I wasn't prepared for the epiphany I experienced. We were talking about what to do going forward. Lots of smart people in the room, as usual. We talked about how we were all waiting for the Obama Administration's organizing arm, Organizing for America, to lead us. An astute observer nixed this concept. No, the administration was waiting for us to lead them. Huh?
Much as I wanted to forget about door-knocking and phone banking, I had to admit this was still a powerful calling. I had to reconcile myself--can I pursue urban gardening and continue to organize for Obama? Yes, simple as it sounds and it was oft repeated during the campaign, change happens from the bottom up. Reminded of this at the meeting I attended recently, we agreed we wanted to continue to meet to try and bring change to our communities and to our country with the help of OFA and the Obama administration. We agreed that we wanted to continue to meet face-to-face on a monthly basis. We agreed that our activities could include a broad range of activities, from the community gardening projects I am interested in to lobbying legislators for health care or door-knocking and phone calling as we did during the campaign.
AndI realized that my urban gardening project, once I really understood it fully, would fit neatly into the new organizing paradigm. Service projects for kids in the garden, help in the garden on planting day, invitations to the community on harvest days all would fit into Organizing for America.
The one thing that we all seemed to agree is that this group needed to meet face to face. It wasn't enough to communicate via email or online blog postings. We gained sustenance from EACH OTHER and so once a month meetings were imperative.
Thus, Face to Face for Change - Twin Cities was created. Its goal seemed simple--to meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and plan for change in its many shapes and forms. We will be there to support OFA and this fledgling administration's agenda, in much the same way we supported its agenda during the campaign.
I'll invite you to join as soon as the site has approved our group. We hope to organize for the next phase of this Movement--the part where the lion's share of the work will be involved--creating permanent change we can believe in. I hope to see you there. Katie McGee
http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html
Check this out
From social networking to text messaging, young people have changed the way political campaigns are run in the United States.
And, today, we have a chance to change the nation.
But only if we vote.
Check out this video of Kal Penn, the star of the Harold & Kumar movies, talking to students at the U about the power of the youth vote, and then find your polling place and vote!
Now the big question: if your attention is worth billions of dollars, how much power does your vote have?
Go to www.VoteForChange.com to find your polling place.
Those words were so powerful when I first heard them that I put them in a song. I am a Seattle musician. I've sang "Minnesota" at ever show I've had since then, which is at least 4O times.
Please watch the video and pass it on! just copy and paste the link, it's easy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8sPG97GkA
www.alimarcus.com
We should demand her records ned to be released... pass on!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/02/time_running_out_on_palin_medi.html
I saw this post from another blogger and i wanted to pass it on! Make this public and pass it on!...
Read about John McCain's Cover Up to keep his POW files sealed otherwise he would lose the presidential race for being found out as a traitor!
Read about how McCain abused POW and MIA families and passed laws to keep all POW records sealed to protect his own shameful records and keep his betrayal of America a secret!
Read about why the records of a fatal car accident that may have involved alcohol involving John McCain are being withheld by the navy.
Read about how McCain cost the lives of American ship mates on the USS FORRESTAL. Why did he go hide below deck while ship mates were gallantly fighting fires and aiding the wounded and dying? Why did he leave the ship? Do we really want a man with acts of incompetence, cowardice, deceit and Lack of Leadership to be our President?
Read about McCain's role in the Keating 5 scandal. Again he gets only a slap on the wrist for his horrendous role in the Keating 5.
Read the real truth about Cindy McCain's Drug Addiction cover up scandal!
John McCain is UNFIT to run for President - Muchless become a President!
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/11/john-mccain-cover-ups.html
In an effort to mobilize an unprecedented turnout among first time and youth voters, Mike D., Ad-Rock and MCA of the Beastie Boys will help Get Out The Vote for Barack in Minnesota. They will host a Canvass for Change kick off at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Here are the details:
GOTV Canvass Kickoff w/ Adam Yauch, Adam Hrovitz, & Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys Oren Gateway Center, Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN 3:30 PM
We’ve got four more days to make a difference. So take some time this weekend to volunteer. If we don’t each do our part, the next four years could be scarier than anything you see tonight.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN REPORTING ON THE LACKLUSTER YOUTH VOTE TURN-OUT.....THEY JUST DONT KNOW.....YOU ARE THE SECREAT WEAPON. YOU ARE THE KEY THAT WILL BRING IT HOME.
THE YOUTH OF AMERICA WILL BE FOREVER CALLED GENERATION"O"
YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT WILL FIND CURES AND PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE. YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT WILL END WORLD HUNGER.
YOU ARE THE HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE. I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES.
GET OUT THE YOUTH VOTE. PROVE THE MEDIA WRONG AGAIN! CAMPUSES AROUND THE COUNTRY MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT. YOU ARE THE FUTURE. YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
GENERATION OBAMA.
DONT JUST VOTE. VOLUNTEER ON ELECTION DAY. CALL YOUR OBAMA OFFICE OR DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICE FOR YOUR STATE. WE NEED POLL GREETERS AT EVERY VOTING LOCATION ON ELECTION DAY. GET YOUR LAPTOPS AND HEAD TO THE POLLS. YOU MAY ASSIST VOTERS IN LOCATING THEIR CORRECT VOTING STATIONS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION VIA YOUR LAPTOP. THE ONLY RULE IS TO BE 100 FEET FROM THE VOTING ENTRANCE MARKER.
18-35 YOUTH VOTE. IT IS ALL UP TO YOU. YOU WILL DETERMINE THE OUTCOME THIS ELECTION.
VOTE PROUD. VOTE OBAMA!
There are just four days left before Election Day and the campaign's Get Out the Vote effort is running on all cylinders to ensure that Barack is elected on November 4th.
Tomorrow, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean will make stops in St. Cloud and Minneapolis to rally supporters to "Get Out the Vote" over the next few days.
Governor Dean will campaign for Barack Obama, Al Franken, Elwyn Tinklenberg and other DFL candidates. He’ll appear alongside Tinklenberg, state Senate Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark, Thomasin Frankin, Mayor RT Rybak, and Rep. Keith Ellison.
Saturday, November 1: ST CLOUD: Get Out The Vote Rally for Change with Gov. Howard Dean FEATURING: El Tinklenberg, Minnesota Senator Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark and Thomasin Frankin Campaign For Change Office 904 West St. Germain Street St. Cloud, MN 5PM MINNEAPOLIS Get Out The Vote Concert for Change With Howard Dean, Martin Zellar, White Light Riot, and the Radiators FEATURING: Mayor RT Rybak, Thomasin Frankin, and Rep. Keith Ellison Trocaderos Nightclub & Restaurant 107 3rd Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 8PM
Saturday, November 1:
ST CLOUD: Get Out The Vote Rally for Change with Gov. Howard Dean FEATURING: El Tinklenberg, Minnesota Senator Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark and Thomasin Frankin
Campaign For Change Office 904 West St. Germain Street St. Cloud, MN 5PM
MINNEAPOLIS Get Out The Vote Concert for Change With Howard Dean, Martin Zellar, White Light Riot, and the Radiators FEATURING: Mayor RT Rybak, Thomasin Frankin, and Rep. Keith Ellison
Trocaderos Nightclub & Restaurant 107 3rd Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 8PM
Governor Dean knows that in 2000 and 2004 the Republican turn-out machine helped deliver the presidency to George Bush, twice. Over the last 21 months, grassroots supporters across Minnesota -- many of whom had never been involved in politics before -- have built an organization to match. In four days, we'll know who wins.
But the one thing we do know is that you can't win if you don't fight. This weekend is your chance to be part of that fight.
The clock starts this weekend.
Polls close in four days.
I saw this so im passing it on... pretty accurate i must say.
Closing Appeals to America
Dear America,Mine.Mine mine mine.Me Me Me Me Me Me Me!Mine mine mine mine mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine!In conclusion: Fear fear fear fear. Very scary fear!Sincerely,The Republican PartyP.S. If you liked Joseph McCarthy, you'll love us!
Dear America,
Mine.
Mine mine mine.
Me Me Me Me Me Me Me!
Mine mine mine mine mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine!
In conclusion: Fear fear fear fear. Very scary fear!
Sincerely,
The Republican Party
P.S. If you liked Joseph McCarthy, you'll love us!
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Dear America,We.Us. We. Together. Americans. United States.Hope compassion equality inclusiveness competence.Brains common sense community respect hard work accountability.Action change responsibility. More viewpoints, smarter solutions.In conclusion: Yes we can.Sincerely,The Democratic Party.P.S. Vote
We.
Us. We. Together. Americans. United States.
Hope compassion equality inclusiveness competence.
Brains common sense community respect hard work accountability.
Action change responsibility. More viewpoints, smarter solutions.
In conclusion: Yes we can.
The Democratic Party.
P.S. Vote
