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LABOR DAY REPORT

Wow! What a response at the Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh ! Congratulations and thanks to the more than 30 volunteers from our Coalition who participated in various activities at the parade on Labor Day. We started near Freedom corner where flyers were distributed and then moved to the stage near Mellon Arena where we lifted our colorful Single Payer Banner as Presidential candidate John Edwards spoke to the crowd. While this group was then getting ready to participate in the march, another group of volunteers was meeting at Grant Street to distribute flyers to the spectators. Together, we distributed over 4000 flyers and marched with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) contingent holding our Single Payer Banner banner. Our presence and activities were warmly received by both participants and the spectators alike. We accomplished this, not as individuals, but in a well organized fashion that showed our presence as a growing force. Congratulations!

Please Click Here for a Slide Show of pictures from the Labor Day Parade, including the event with John Edwards at the beginning of the parade. Between our banner in full view of him, our buttons, our leaflet given to his aid, and our statements to him and his wife Elizabeth in support of single-payer, we let him hear our voice.

Thanks to all those who contributed photos for the slide show.

Ed Grystar and Sandy Fox

Past Events

April 2007

Lenox. Massachusetts, April 4, 2007, Community

Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox Massachusetts 7- 9 p.m. Contact Giovanna Lepore: giovannalepore@verizon.net

Bellingham, Washington, April 4th

Wednesday, April 4

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

United for National Health Care to banner at freeway overpasses in Ferndale, Bellingham and Mt. Vernon. For more info: info@UFHC.org

April 4, 5:30 PM, Julian Bond Speaks

Chairman of the NAACP
2007: A Race Odyssey
Brown & Williamson Club, Papa John’s
Cardinal Stadium

First annual Anne Braden memorial lecture

Pioneer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 1960s sit-ins l Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
20-plus years of service in Georgia legislature l Writer, lecturer, spokesman for the disinherited and history professor at University of Virginia. Free and open to the public.
This event marks the grand opening of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at University of Louisville, College of Arts & Sciences, 852-2944. louisville.edu/org/bradeninstitute

Louisville, KY Thurs. April 5, 5:30 PM: DVD, discussion, California OneCare, Library

DVD and discussion: The HealthCare Solution: California OneCare
Thursday, April 5, 5:30 PM
Board Room, Mezzanine, Louisville Free Public Library, 4th and York
Public Invited! Join us.  Contact: Phone: 502-895-8847 email: kyhealthcare@aol.com

Louisville, KY Sat. April 7, 11:00 AM, Easter parade 

Mark McKinley and Enid Redman have entered Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare in the Easter Parade once again!

This is a great way to bring information on single payer healthcare to the public. Assemble behind the banner at 11:00 AM at St. Marks Episcopal Church, corner of Frankfort and Kennedy.

Lincoln, NE, April 13th,

John “Hai” Knapp scheduled to perform for Healthcare-NOW at MoJava,

48th and Saint Paul Street

Lincoln NE

8:00 – 10:00 PM April 13, 2007

Folk Musician/Singer/Songwriter

April 12th thru 21st

Journey for Justice in California Central Valley/Valle Central de California

For More Information, Contact ssandovala@comcast.net

April 12th - Sacramento
10am - Noon Introduction to State Assembly (Sally Lieber). Reception, Media event to follow
1pm - 5pm Lobbying Assemby and Senate Districts traversed by Journey
Sacramento City College event - to be announced

April - Sacramento
Loaves & Fishes (Paula LaMazee)
Radio Program interview
American River v. Sacramento State Event

April 14th - Stockton
Visit Farm worker camps
Event at Centro Jamaica
Zapatecos & Airihua
Feeding Homeless with Rev. Phillips

April 15th - Modesto/Turlock
Cal State Stanislaus - details to be announced

April 16th - Merced
Scout Hut - details to be announced

April 17th - Madera - 5pm to 8pm
First Five Offices / Oficinas de First Five
525 E. Yosemite, Madera CA
Speakers/Oradores
Video: "Quality Health Care for All" - Pelicula sobre servicios medicos.
Participation by the audience encouraged/Participación de todos sera respetada.
For more information/Para mas información, Call/Llame (559) 706-6956
Download the Madera Flyer/Descarga el Folleto por Madera

April 18th - Fresno - 5pm to 8pm
Fresno Main Branch Library - Sara MacCardle Room
2420 Mariposa Street, Fresno, CA
corner of N and Mariposa (north of Tulare street)
Speakers/Oradores: Dr. Ali Rezapour and Dr. Sal Sandoval
Video: "Quality Health Care for All" - Pelicula sobre servicios medicos.
Participation by the audience encouraged/Participación de todos sera respetada.
For more information/Para mas información, Call/Llame Gloria Hernandez (559) 268-2261
Download the Fresno Flyer/Descarga el Folleto por Fresno

April 19th - Dinuba - 6pm to 8pm
Dinuba Branch Library
150 South I Street, Dinuba, CA
A presentation on universal health care for all including a video and speakers.
For more information, contact Carlos Cabrera at (559) 595-1921

April 20th - Reedley - 7pm to 9pm
1362 L Street, Reedley, CA (Next building to the side)

April 21st - Lindsay - 2pm to 6pm
El Palmar Restaurant
122 E. Honolulu, Lindsay, CA

Indianapolis, IN, April 14th

Healthcare Truth Hearing together with Peace and Justice Summit.  Contact: jflight@indy.net

New York City, April 17, AFSCME Local 371 2:00 P.M.

Briefing on H.R. 676, Contact Joel Herbst

New York City, April 18th, 10:00 A.M.

Alliance of Retired Americans, 52 Broadway

Contact Norm Levine: janlev@msn.com

Community Room of the Saratoga Springs Public Library

Salad at 6pm, Program at 6:30pm

SPEAKERS
Rebecca Elgie & Bernie Fetterly
Members of: Tompkins County LWV, and HCR4US Steering Committee
Tompkins County Health Care Task Force
Vito Grasso, MPA, CAE
Executive Vice President, NYS Academy of Family Physicians

Atlantic City, NJ,   April 16, 2007 Industrial Unions Council Healthcare Briefing

Contact mdudzic@thelaborparty.org.

Toledo, OH, April 23rd

Local 50 Union Hall.  7570 Caple Blvd. , Northwood, OH, (Just north of Owens Community College off Oregon Road) Citizen's Healthcare Hearings: A Report to the Congress, Call for Testimony.  Thousands and thousands of Toledo residents do not have health coverage. Many more have shoddy medical coverage that requires high deductibles and co-payments.  ...here is your opportunity to share your experiences and concerns with Congress.

Contact:  Karen Krause, 419-475-8380, karen@jwjtoledo.org.

Albany, NY April 23
Register to participate in the taping of the Albany Town Meeting on Universal Healthcare on WMHT-TV.

The Albany County League of Women Voters and the Capital District Alliance for Universal Healthcare have joined with WMHT-TV to present a Town Meeting, "Universal Health Care:  How do we get there from here?" on Monday evening, April 23, from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.  WMHT will videotape the hour-long Town Meeting at their new digital studio in Troy with Benita Zahn as host.  The show will be televised on Monday evening, May 7, at 9:00 p.m.  Join us at WMHT to ask questions and offer your suggestions on how we can move toward universal health care in New York State and in the United States.

To register to participate as part of the studio audience, call Star at 880-3400 by April 16th. She will ask for your name, phone number and the organization you are affiliated with. Seats are limited, so register soon. Audience members must get to the facility by 7:00 p.m. Download more info.

White Plains, NY, April 23rd 7:00 p.m. Westchester Progressive Forum and Westchester Health Action Coalition co-chair this April Health meeting at Bryant Avenue United Methodist Church.  Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator of Healthcare NOW speaking .

Contact: Dr. Christine Verber [c_verber@hotmail.com]

There is a Solution to Our Health Care Crisis

Co-sponsored by Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition (MUHCC),
Progressive Democrats of America – Minnesota,
Citizens Organized Acting Together (COACT) and the DFL Progressive Caucus

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 6:30pm – 8:30 pm, Sabathani Community Center
310 East 38th Street, Minneapolis MN 55409, 3d floor, Conference Center, D1&D2
Contact Information: Joel Clemmer at 651-690-4296

http://joelclemmer.org/conversation/

Santwana Dasgupta, PDA State Coordinator, at 612-961-1344 or santwana@hotmail.com

Click here for reports of very successful Healthcare TRUTH HEARINGS nationwide.  YOU CAN DO ONE IN YOUR COMMUNITY TOO. or call 1-800-453-1305

WASHINGTON, DC April 24th.  National Congressional Briefing on H.R. 676 and the need for a national healthcare system. Everybody invited.

Speakers: Dr. Marcia Angell, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, Ajamu Sankofa, Don Bechler, Dr. Jaime Torres, Kay Tillow, Marilyn Clement, Len Rodberg, Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo, Dr. Quentin Young, Economist Dean Baker, and MORE...   Stay for advocates' strategy meeting and for lobbying on April 25th. (2237 Rayburn)

CONTACT joel.segal@mail.house.gov

Bellingham, WA. Bannering on the highways and bridges Contact: clindberg360@msn.com

We as AIDS activists must address this climate of health care inequity in which we work. How do HIV/AIDS and single-payer health care activism address issues of access to essential health services and awareness? What can we do collectively to make universal healthcare a reality?
Speakers Include:
Rebecca Fox, LGBT Health Coalition
Ajamu Sankofa, Healthcare-Now!
Eustacia Smith, ACTUP-New York
Moderated by: Joseph DeFillippis, Queers for Economic Justice
Co-sponsored by:
ACTUP-NY, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), LGBT Center, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
For more information or to be added as a co-sponsor, contact Kim at champ@champnetwork.org or 212-937-7955 x3.
www.champnetwork.org // www.gaycenter.org

Detroit, MI, May 1st, 7 PM. Michigan Alliance to Strengthen Social Security and Medicare

Olivia Boykins, Special Assistant to Congressman John Conyers, Jr.,

                                                          Chair, House Judiciary Committee

Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW, the national movement organizing for single payer, national healthcare - H.R. 676 (Medicare for All) www.healthcare-now.org

Richard Shoemaker, Retired Vice-President, International UAW. Since 1957,

Mr. Shoemaker has been a union activist. He was elected International Vice-

President of the UAW in 1995, 1998 and 2002. He retired in 2006. 

Saundra Williams, Moderator, President of  Metro Detroit AFL-CIO

Michigan Alliance to Strengthen Social Security and Medicare  

Contact Delphine Palkowski - 248-486-6588 

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - IBEW Local                           

1358 Abbott, Detroit MI 48226    The parking lot entrance is on Porter St.

in the vicinity of old Tiger Stadium off Trumbull St. 

For the WILPF event at noon, contact Teresa Futvoy-Micus

734-287-6995   

May 7, California

Contact: Shum Preston, 510-273-2276 or Chuck Idelson, 510-273-2246

HISTORIC Rally for Single-Payer Healthcare
Nurses, School Employees, Teachers, Firefighters and Patients Demand SB 840 and Genuine Healthcare Reform
Sen. Sheila Kuehl Addresses Crowd

Join the movement for

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

with SINGLE-PAYER FINANCING

· The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have a health care plan. Because we do not have a plan, 47 million people are uninsured, 18,000 people a year die, 3 million go bankrupt because of medical bills—and we spend twice as much money as any other nation on earth for health care.

· The insurance industry in the biggest roadblock to a healthy America. They are in business to avoid the sick and insure the healthy.

· Come to a discussion on the importance of working for SB 840, the California Universal Healthcare Act and HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act (Medicare for All), and for taking steps this year towards single-payer.

7pm Tuesday, May 8

1621 Market St., SF

(Plumber’s Hall, corner of Gough – 4 Blocks from Civic Center BART)

Speakers:

Tim Paulson – Executive Director, San Francisco Labor Council

Mark Dudzic – National Executive Director, Labor Party

Michael Lighty – Policy Director, California Nurses Association

Don Bechler – Chair, California Universal Health Care Organizing Project SEIU Representative

Sponsored by the San Francisco Labor Council, California Nurses Association, Labor Party and California Universal Health Care Organizing Project

For more information, call the SF Labor Council at 440-4809 or contact the California Universal Health Care

Organizing Project: 415-695-7891 / dbechler@value.net. Visit the website www.singlepayernow.net.

New York, May 7-8:

Please Join Us For The 2nd Annual Sumner Rosen Memorial Lecture

At conclusion of “North American Labor Assembly on Climate Crisis”, May 7-8

“A Healthy Workforce in a Healthy Economy in a Healthy Environment in a Healthy City”

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
United Federation of Teachers Auditorium , 52 Broadway, N.Y.C., N.Y.

Chair/Convener: Ed Ott, Executive Director, NYC Central Labor Council AFL-CIO

Keynote Address: Roger Toussaint, President, Transit Workers Union, Local 100

Panel Discussion: “Occupational Safety, Universal Health Care, and Clean Air"
Moderator: Roger Toussaint

Professor Tom Angotti, Environmental Justice Coalition and Planners Network

Dr. Ayodele Green, Committee of Interns & Residents/SEIU

Bill Henning, NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)

Suzanne Mattei, Esq., Sierra Club

Kate Pfordresher, Apollo Alliance

Co-Sponsors: AFSCME DC37, Center for the Study of Working Class Life (SUNY, Stony Brook), Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Cornell Labor Programs, Five Borough Institute, International Division AFL-CIO USA, Jobs With Justice NY, Joseph Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies (CUNY), National Jobs for All Coalition, NY Professional Nurses Union, Professional Staff Congress (CUNY), Rekindling Reform.

For more information: Robb Burlage 917-318-7908 e-mail: RBurlage@aol.com

Believe it or not, this coming week here in NYC Wal-Mart is hosting a conference titled, "A Conference on the Nation's Health Care Crisis". Wal-Mart, the largest employer and retailer in the U.S., has one of the worst health care programs for its workers, shifts many of its lower-wage and part-time workers onto public programs, and promotes health policies with limited benefits and very high premiums and out-of-pocket costs. They also make their workers wait quite awhile before they can sign up for one of the company's (lousy) plans. (See end of this message for a full explanation of Wal-Mart's health care offerings to its workers.)

Warning! Those forces (including Wal-Mart) opposed to a national, universal health care program here in the U.S. look to the Wal-Mart model as the solution to America's health care crisis. Wal-Mart is likely to be promoting their high-cost, bare-bones approach at this conference, to be held at the New York Hilton this Tues. May 8th. 

Respond! Led by our colleagues at the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), those of us who believe in comprehensive, quality, affordable health care for all will be protesting Wal-Mart outside the Hilton (at 54th St. & 6th Ave.) , starting at 8:30 a.m. and continuing through the lunch hour. Please join us if you can for all or part of the demonstration. 

Come show your support for REAL health care for all, and not phony reforms that merely punish or bankrupt you when you get sick!  

Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign [mailto:metrohealth@igc.org]

Vermont, May 12th, at 11 AM, Join us,  the Green Mountain Chapter of OWL,  at Central VT Medical Center downstairs conference room.  We will celebrate Mother’s Day with a surprise visitor from our national office and the presentation of the annual Mother’s Day Report, put out by the national office of the

OLDER WOMEN’S LEAGUE (OWL)

Entitled

GIVE ‘EM HEALTH, REVISITED

MEDICARE FOR ALL

• Pick up your free copy of this report and learn about our press release at the State House on May 14th. 

New York, May 16, 2007 - 7:30pm

Dr Richard Satcher
*Weill Medical College of Cornell University *1300 York Avenue at 69^th Street in Manhattan - Weill Auditorium - Second Floor
* **THE SIXTH ANNUAL JOANNE LUKOMNIK FORUM ADMISSION FREE - RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED BUT TO ASSURE A PLACE LET US KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND

*SPONSORED BY *PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM, NY METRO CHAPTER
*CO-SPONSORS: *AVERY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, STUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION-REGION IX, AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION-REGION2, PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORKERS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, NYC CHAPTER OF HEALTHCARE-NOW, METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN, QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT

May 16th, Indianapolis

DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT of ANTHEM/WELLPOINT Headquarters:

WHEN:  Wednesday, May 16, 9:30 a.m.

WHERE:  Anthem/Wellpoint headquarters, 120 Monument Circle, downtown Indianapolis

May 20, Carrick, Pennsylvania

CITIZENS HEARING ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
Next Sunday, May 20th, 3 - 5 p.m.
Dr. Walter Tsou, past president of the American Public Health Association and co-chair of Help Fund PA

Citizens Forum on Health Care Reform

The public is invited to attend a Citizens Forum on Health Care Reform to be held on Sunday, May 20, 2007 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. It will take place at the Birmingham United Church of Christ, 25 Carrick Avenue, Carrick, PA.

Dr. Walter Tsou, MD MPH, former Philadelphia Commissioner of Public Health and Past President of the American Public Health Association, will present testimony on finding solutions to the health care crisis. A panel will discuss the problems faced by health care providers, uninsured and under-insured individuals, small business owners, seniors, minorities and those facing cuts in benefits and high deductibles and co-pays.

The Forum is sponsored by the Western PA. Coalition for Single Payer Health Care. www.wpasinglepayer.org Contact Sandy Fox at sm2fox@yahoo.com or 412-421-8233 for more information.

Directions to Birmingham United Church of Christ, 25 Carrick Ave.
The church is just off Brownsville Rd. in Carrick
Coming out Brownsville Rd.: Carrick Ave. is on the left, just past Becks Run Rd.
From Southside: East Carson St., turn right onto Becks Run Rd., follow to top of hill, turn left onto Brownsville Rd., take immediate left onto Carrick Ave..
From Downtown: Route 51 South, turn left on left on Maytide St, at top of hill turn left onto Brownsville Rd. Turn right onto Carrick Ave.

May 21, 6:30 P.M, New York City, Gray Panthers Single Payer Healthcare Hearing ; Hudson Guild Elliott Center, 441 West 26th Street between 9th & 10th Avenue. Speakers: Roger Sanjek, Gray Panthers, NYC Network; Ajamu Sankofa, Healthcare Now; Mark Hannay, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign; Denise Soffel, Community Service Society, Medicaid Matters

Tell your story!

Light Refreshments, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Program

For information, Contact 212-799-7572 Gray Panthers Office

Sponsoring Organizations

Chelsea for Peace; Goddard Riverside Senior Council; Gray Panthers, NYC Network; Healthcare Now; Hudson Guild; JPAC; Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign; NY StateWide Senior Action Council/NYC; New York Network for Action on Medicare & Social Security (NYNAMSS); Penn South Social Action Committee; Presbyterian Senior Services, Progressive Democrats of America; Older Women’s League/GNY; Taiwanese American Association of NY (List in Formation).

May 24, Santa Cruz, CA, at the Vet's Hall, downtown Santa Cruz.  7 p.m

More Details From: emaloney emtm@sbcglobal.net

Veterans' Building, 846 Front Street,Santa Cruz.  

Speakers are Allyson Violante, Congressional Aide for Representative Sam Farr, Neal Coonerty, Santa Cruz County Supervisor and owner of local business who will talk about the effects of lack of health care on business and labor; Claudia Chaufan - An Argentine Medical Dcotor, a Professor at UCSC on Sociology of Health and Illness, a member of Physicans for a National Health Program; has written about diabetes and health care systems reform; presented on these topics in Argentina, the US, and Europe; co-authored several books on nutrition.  Will speak on Health Care in Other Industrialized Countries.  William Monning, an attorney and  Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution ad the Monterey Institute of Inernational Studies and Conflict Studies; a long-time activists in areas too numerous too recount, who will speak on Health Care as a Human Right. And a few more.

May 25th, Brooklyn, New York
CALLING COMMUNITY MEMBERS of CENTRAL BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS

(Residents, workers, policymakers, other Leaders, Health Advocates and other Interested Parties)

To AN URGENT COMMUNITY DIALOGUE about

A DEEPENING CRISIS in LOSS of MORE Health-Related Services and Wellness Resources

And POORER and POORER Health Outcomes

Come out on: Friday, May 25th; 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

At Brooklyn Borough Hall – 1st Floor Conference Room

(All trains and busses to Downtown Brooklyn )

TUESDAY, 29 MAY, MINNESOTA
9:00 A. M.
MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER
1301 SECOND AVENUE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS

PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION DURING UNITED HEALTH GROUP¹S ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS¹
MEETING

PROTEST AGAINST A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT FEEDS CORPORATE GREED, NOT HUMAN
NEED!! HMOS OUT OF MINNESOTA, NOW!!

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK-MINNESOTA (UHCAN-MN) INVITES ALL
SUPPORTERS TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMANDING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM CHANGE NOW!!
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A MORNING OF SPEAKING OUT, SINGING AND RADICAL
CHEERLEADING!! BRING FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS!!

FOR INFO. CALL STEFANIE LEVI: 612-822-2974 OR JOEL ALBERS: 612-375-0188
Or JOHN SCHWARZ (651) 222-3722

May 31, Delray Beach, FL

IS IT TIME FOR A GUARANTEED NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM?
A PUBLIC FORUM

Time: 1:00 pm, doors open 1:30- 4:00 pm presentations and discussion

Where: Delray Beach Library

100 West Atlantic Avenue

Delray Beach, FL 33444

The Program: American Health Care In Crisis

Why We Need HR 676: The National Health Insurance Act

Ajamu Sankofa, National Organizer, Healthcare-NOW

A New Health Care System includes New Alternatives for Care: Transplants, Stem Cell Research, and Critical New Approaches

Gary Friedman, MD Trustee, The New Jersey Stem Cell Research & Education Foundation

Founder, International Regenerative Medicine

June 2007

June 2, Port Washington, WI
A Public Health Care Forum in Port Washington will provide information about the national single-payer healthcare proposal by U.S. Rep. John Conyers (HR646).

Event Details

What: Health Care Reform Discussion Lead by Jack Lohman

When: Saturday, June 2, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon

Where: Port Washington Niederkorn Library

316 West Grand Avenue, Port Washington, WI

Who: All members of the public, media, and elected officials are invited.

New York, June 5th "Universal Health Care, Medicare and American Politics:
Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles"
Dr. Theodore Marmor
Professor of Public Policy and Management, Professor of Political Science - Yale University   Reception: 5:15 PM Program:    6:00 PM   Cherkasky-Davis Conference Center 330 W. 42 St., Penthouse
Please plan to join Rekindling Reform in celebrating six years of important contributions to advancing the cause of universal health care.     Please let us know you're coming:  email@rekindlingreform.org

Detroit: Heroes' Dinner, June 9th: Honoring Congressman John Conyers, Catholic Church of St. Paul, Barth Hall, 4800 Woodward Avenue.

Conway, South Carolina, June 9th, 2:00 P.M.

Concerned about healthcare for all in South Carolina?

Organizational Meeting

Physicians for a National Healthcare Program

Thorny’s Steakhouse

618 Church Street
Conway

Efforts to bring about good healthcare for all acknowledge the moral, medical and economic imperative of a single payer health coverage in America. Join others across the state in advocating for the healthcare needs of all.

- Illness shouldn’t trigger bankruptcy. Stop the “food or medication” dilemma
- Prevention should be part of everyone’s healthcare
- Wellness of our citizens is based on a cohesive healthcare infrastructure
and contributes to national security
- All are welcome- YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A PHYSICIAN TO JOIN
- Bring your hope and commitment

For more information: Grace Gifford 843-365-6654
brfherb@aol.com Join us for lunch and planning
Directions: Heading toward Myrtle Beach on Hwy. 501 (also called Church Street) turn north (left) into parking lot at the corner of 8th Avenue. It is next to Pizza Hut and across the street from Papa John’s and MovieMax. We will be in the meeting room.
Heading toward Conway from Myrtle Beach on Hwy. 501, pass CCU and HGTC and stay on business 501 as it goes over the big bridge (do not go downtown to Main St.)
After the light at the foot of the bridge, go straight and look for Thorny’s on your right about three short blocks down.

Garden City, Long Island, NY, June 9th, Long Island Coalition for a National Health Plan, Garden City Community Church, Stewart and Whitehall Streets, 10:00 A.M. -12:30 P.M.  For more information, contact: Mary Dewar, 718-276-9394

June 10th, Older Women’s League honoring Healthcare-NOW,

Cottage Restaurant, 16th and Irving Place, New York, NY

NYC - June 14th Thursday,  6:30 pm to 9 pm

Film screening and discussion of Salud

Beautifully filmed in Cuba, South Africa, The Gambia, Honduras and
Venezuela.
ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY BY ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE CONNIE FIELD
At:   *SOLIDARITY** CENTER**  55 West 17^th St
5th floor  

New York, NY, Wednesday June 20, 2007 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Town Hall Meeting:

Universal Health Insurance-- The Solution of the Healthcare Crisis!

Sponsored by Saint Augustine Parish, Latinos for National Health Insurance, HealthCare NOW!

It is up to you to change the dysfunctional and expensive U.S. Health Care System. Your Involvement and action will make it possible. Join us on June 20 and learn how we can have an Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. 

Speakers:

Dr. Jaime Torres Ajamu K. Sankofa,  Esq. Founder and National Coordinator National Organizer

Latinos for National Health Insurance HealthCare – NOW!

Youth Representatives:

Christian G. Sánchez Tresa Martinez

Latinos for National Health Insurance HealthCare – NOW!

2007 NYU Wagner CarrerWays Fellow Youth Activate

Where:

Saint Augustine Parish Hall
290 Henry St. (wheelchair accessible)
between Gouverneur and Jackson Sts.

Atlanta: U.S. Social Forum, June 27-July I, 2007. Atlanta, Contact info@healthcare-now to join in Healthcare-NOW NATIONAL TRUTH HEARING in Atlanta And training for effective action with the Ruckus Society.   Come join us at the Healthcare-NOW tent.  Give your health crisis testimony and join in supporting solutions we can pursue.  For more information:  Healthcare-NOW,

AjamuSankofa1949@aol.com or Healthcare-NOW, info@healthcare-now.org

www.ussocialforum.org

Atlanta Contact: msrece@yahoo.com.