Good health care is not a privilege. With 47 million Americans uninsured and the battle over Universal Health care at a fevered pitch, we all have to step in and help get a Universal Health care bill passed. Let’s remember, Health care reform isn’t just about getting insurance for the uninsured. It’s about improving the cost and coverage of insurance for the majority of people who do have health care insurance. During the month of August, there will be huge battles waged by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to prevent health care reform and to ensure that they can continue to reap huge profits at our expense.
We need to help mobilize our communities to understand how the Universal health care plan affects our families and communities. We need to call our legislators, sign petitions, and put pressure on our elected officials to get their support. President Obama is fighting our battle for us and calling on each one of us to let our legislators know how we demand support for affordable health care for everyone. Many of our legislators are treating health care like it’s a political football, or a game they’re playing to leverage their power. Reach out to your friends and families and together let’s make the Health care change happen now. Let’s talk to our college students, family members and community groups and ask them to get involved. We will be continuing a series of articles to keep you abreast of these issues and ways that you can take personal action and get your voices and votes counted!
If you want to do something now in August, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust and find out what Organizing for America is doing in your community and sign up to attend an event. Let’s all make Health care reform our priority!
Now that the August recess has started and our elected legislators are going home to meet their constituents to discuss the issues, it’s our time for citizen advocacy to push into high gear. Health care reform and the Public Option is a high priority for our nation and for the millions of us who are poorly served by the existing system. We share the opportunity to shine a spotlight on our elected officials to support reforming the broken health care system. Many of the legislators are playing political football with our health care while our costs continue to spiral upwards, more people are being laid off and losing existing healthcare coverage and millions more are facing a future without health care coverage. Meanwhile many of the legislators are being courted by medical, insurance and health care industry lobbyists to stall or kill health care reform so that they can continue to profit from the existing broken system.
It’s exciting to see numerous grassroots and groups organize advertising media campaigns, phone call programs and participation at Town Hall sessions to voice their opinion and support of health care reform and the Public Option. While adversaries try to skew the media and put out misleading information to put doubt and fear into people’s minds, many others are fighting back. A new TV ad featuring a business owner who just had his costs increased 42% by his insurance provider asks point blank of his elected representative, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska if he is supporting health care reform and the public option or is he sitting on the fence. He goes further to reveal that his elected legislator has taken over $2 million dollars from corporate lobbyists whose special interests support blocking health care reform so that they can continue profiting from the existing broken system. It’s a great ad and campaign to let our legislators know that we’re watching them, demanding support and letting them know that if they don’t support the wishes of their voters, that it will affect the way they vote in upcoming elections. If our officials don’t represent our best interests, then they don’t deserve to be voted back into office.
We’ll be reporting on more interesting campaigns and issues like this in the months ahead.
If you believe in putting pressure on our elected officials to support key initiatives you care about, then feel free to sign the petition at the end of the video and send it around to all your friends. Mable
Good health care is not a privilege. With 47 million Americans uninsured and the battle over Universal Health care at a fevered pitch, we all have to step in and help get a Universal Health care bill passed. Let’s remember, Health care reform isn’t just about getting insurance for the uninsured. It’s about improving the cost and coverage of insurance for the majority of people who do have health care insurance. During the month of August, there will be huge battles waged by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to prevent health care reform and to ensure that they can continue to reap huge profits at our expense.
We need to help mobilize our communities to understand how the Universal health care plan affects our families and communities. We need to call our legislators, sign petitions, and put pressure on our elected officials to get their support. President Obama is fighting our battle for us and calling on each one of us to let our legislators know how we demand support for affordable health care for everyone. Many of our legislators are treating health care like it’s a political football, or a game they’re playing to leverage their power. Reach out to your friends and families and together let’s make the Health care change happen now. Let’s talk to our college students, family members and community groups and ask them to get involved. We will be continuing a series of articles to keep you abreast of these issues and ways that you can take personal action and get your voices and votes counted!
If you want to do something now in August, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust and find out what Organizing for America is doing in your community and sign up to attend an event. Let’s all make Health care reform our priority!
More than 350 women and a contingent of supportive men came to engage with each other and start a new national pipeline of multicultural women leaders in business, politics, and media. From ten-year-old bloggers from an all-girls middle school in Oakland to 80-year-old activists as well as stay-at-home moms and college students, women came from across the country to join in the first Engage Her Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference April 25-26, 2009 on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
A special presentation of the 4 Legends of Feminism with Gloria Steinem, Dolores Huerta, Yuri Kochiyama and Aileen Hernandez was concluded with Misa Malone singing an acapella rendition of ONE, the theme song for Engage Her.
Music written and produced by:
Tony Saunders La Porte Avenue Music BMI c 2008
Lyrics by: Tonnie Harvey
Video by Steve Yamaguma, Design2Market
More than 350 women and a contingent of supportive men came to engage with each other and start a new national pipeline of multicultural women leaders in business, politics, and media. From ten-year-old bloggers from an all-girls middle school in Oakland to 80-year-old activists as well as stay-at-home moms and college students, women came from across the country to join in the first Engage Her Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference April 25-26, 2009 on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Video produced by Michel Fraser
