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North Carolina is Jumping to Action!

By Gregory Jackson - Oct 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm EDT

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In response to Organizing for America's 100,000 Call to Congress Challenge, North Carolina citizens jumped to the call for action! It's only 4PM here in North Carolina and citizens have already made over 1,024 phone calls across the state to their neighbors, family and friends to empower them to contact their Member of Congress to demand Health Insurance Reform! Thus far students and senior citizens have led the rally for Health Insurance Reform!!!
Senior Citizens all across the state are rallying to prove to their neighbors and fellow senior citizens that the President is committed to delivering Health Insurance Reform that positively affects them, as well as the generations to follow! In Asheville, NC a relentless group of callers started at 10AM this morning calling senior citizens to spread support for the PResident's plan. Equipped with wisdom, strong organizing and the hope for change, these callers took off and accomplished over 100 calls into the rural mountains of Western North Carolina. See below for a few pics of them hard at work for our President!!!

Students from UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, Shaw University and North Carolina Central University started the charge for Health Insurance Reform here in NC at 10:40AM. With two large rallies and two tabling events, students pushed the need for Health Insurance Reform across their campus loudly and in some very creative ways! At UNC Chapel Hill, student organizers wore hospital masks and handed out the President's Plan to students during their lunch break. In addition, student organizers at UNC wore hospital gowns with OFA Health Care Reform signs on, pretending to be sick and literally BEGGED students to commit to calling their Member of Congress. This was very entertaining and very effective. At these campuses, students have already collected over 200 commitments from students and are still working hard to show that the youth support the President's Plan for Health Insurance Reform!!! Check out the pics below!!!

Tonight, we have over 100 volunteers signed up to make calls tonight to their neighbors and fellow citizens to spread the need for Health Insurance Reform across the state of North Carolina...Will you join us?
The need for Change is something we all celebrated on November 4th, 2008 and 350 days later, citizens across the country are striving for that change and proving to nay-sayers that the movement is something we will accomplish. Together WE are proving to the world that WE ARE THE CHANGE.

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