California Nurses and Michael Moore Make History-Huffington Post

wish I could have gone, but am tired from standing for 3 hours yesterday when Arnold came to town-we held signs asking for support for SB 840. He dashed past us on his way into the school where he was holding his "invitation only" "town hall" meeting

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Posted June 12, 2007 | 11:16 PM (EST)

California Nurses and Michael Moore Make History

It was a truly historic day in Sacramento this afternoon when over ten thousand nurses from all over the country rallied with filmmaker Michael Moore in front of the Capitol building. The California Nurses Association, along with the State Senator Sheila Kuehl, packed into a hearing room to listen to Michael Moore and three people featured in his new movie, Sicko, testify about the appalling state of America's broken for profit health care system.

Thousands of nurses and health care professionals, along with people from other unions, (such as myself from the California Faculty Association), gathered outside and watched Moore's testimony on five giant TVs inside huge tents. We rallied in the hot sun, waving little fans and placards the nurses handed out. Then we all marched down to the historic art deco Crest Theater downtown for a special pre-release viewing of Sicko.

The sea of red-shirted nurses was an inspiring sight. They danced and chanted and they were really fired up. We are lucky to have so many dedicated, smart, and politically conscious women working so hard to fix this country's tattered, even barbaric, health care system. Surrounded by thousands of RNs, I never felt safer in my life. I thought if I ever had to have anything go wrong physically while at a public rally, this was the right one.

Senator Kuehl's legislation, SB 840, (the "California Health Insurance Reliability Act"), calls for universal health coverage for every Californian, and it was the rallying point for the massive demonstration. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would be wise to sign it or he is going to face the ferocious wrath and opposition of the women (and men) who comprise the heart and soul of our state's health care system.

The goal of Sicko, as Moore told both the Senate committee and the rally outside, is to provide an organizing tool to get people so angry they will rise up to demand common-sense solutions to the health care crisis. The current greed-driven system where huge corporations pursue lavish profits at the public's expense has created a human catastrophe.


..more at link

glad you could make it! gotta see sicko when it comes out whenever...


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corporate masters.

May have to get some signs myself (if I can get day off).

leave the campus-that was after I asked why I couldn't go to a meeting at a public school that was paid for w/taxpayer dollars

http://www.chicoer.com/newshome/ci_6105405
Schwarzenegger to visit Chico Monday
By LARRY MITCHELL - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 06/10/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT

There were almost 50 people, yet our local paper said there were only a handful, but did include an interview w/my BF, local TV news didn't show us at all and when I called the station the person that answered said she was the one doing the story and hadn't seen us as the press was asked to be in the cafeteria an hour early. The Wall Street Journal did manage to locate and interview some of us, but wasn't in today's paper. I will look tomorrow.

http://www.chicoer.com/newshome/ci_6119060

Schwarzenegger lays out agenda at Chico "town hall" meeting
By JENN KLEIN - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 06/12/2007 12:02:47 AM PDT

As well as his plans for health care reform, the Republican governor also laid out his agenda on education, prison reform, global warming and water infrastructure during a "town hall" meeting at Little Chico Creek School. The meeting was the fourth in a series designed to present Schwarzenegger's plans around the state.

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Also present Monday outside the event were a handful of people in support of Kuehl's proposed Senate Bill 840, which seeks to replace private medical insurance with a state-run system. The most vocal of the group, Durham resident Rob Montgomery, said he supported a system of single-payer health insurance because it worked in Europe.

"I'm angry," said Montgomery, an organic farmer who can't afford health insurance. "I've lost family members. I see all kinds of friends struggle because they don't have health insurance or can't afford the copay."

Schwarzenegger told those at the event the legislature proposed by Kuehl is "not my favorite" because the government-run health care system provided in the prisons was such a disaster a federal judge had to step in and take over.

I know he makes me sick. Doesn't he make you sick? :evilgrin:

No sick days. But then, I can live without those wages for a day I suppose. Might cut into the beer fund however....

I was thinking of a sign like 'We LOVE YOU ARNOLD, especially since you support SB840!!"

Just to throw him for a loop :)

with my other sister, works at a hospital. I'm hoping they will pass the word around about the movie.

:applause:

:hi:

LeftCoast, RN (of the male variety)

PS: good post!

:hi:

Better dead than red!

All who support universal health care are communists! Come out and admit you're a communist and worship your leader!



:sarcasm: