On Friday June 26 at 5PM (next week) we will demonstrate for single payer healthcare for all at the Warner Center Park.
This will be an optimistic demonstration, not an angry one therefore Single Payer Happy Hour. (We may go to some local bar, T.G.I. Friday's ? afterward).
So we will gather at the corner of Topanga Canyon and Califa in Woodland Hills with signs and banners. Single Payer! Healthcare for all! Stop funding the HMOs! and things like this.
The HQs for Blue Shield, Blue Cross, Wellpoint, Health Net and others are nearby.
Pris from LA and I have been cranking up the volume in Los Angeles but we need all the help we can get (more below the fold.)
This was yesterday's diary;
Single Payer Demonstration in Los Angeles on June 26
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Today we reached out to Health Care America - San Fernando Valley Chapter.
Some of these outstanding people have been fighting for Single Payer for over 20 years!!! They are as passionate as they are wonkish and organized as you can possibly imagine.
It turns out their leader is Anita Horn who I know from different circles (the theater). Forgive the poor quality of the photo which also includes Pris (holding the Single Payer sign on the left) and I (in the back.) Pris knows Anita (sitting holding a sign) because they are both local community activists.
We also met John Glass who has been at it for over 20 years. Bruce Hector M.D. who represents the majority of doctors who support Single Payer or at least a Public Option.He was very passionate in describing how Single Payer pays for itself by dramatically reducing administration costs. Don Schroeder who represented CaliforniaOneCare.org and is organizing a Hollywood celebrity event and is going to produce short segments with actors supporting Single Payer.
It seems that the very large Hispanic community of Greater Los Angeles has not been tapped to support healthcare reform. So I volunteered to help with this effort. Thanks to the Repugs, healthcare has become an immigration issue too. They keep saying that 10 million of the 50 million without healthcare are illegals so why should they get healthcare. they forget that these 10 million are taxpayers who probably have US citizen children or relatives. So I am going to contact Piolin and other influetial Hispanics in So.Cal. Fools.
So, pitch in by attending, by writting us so we can send you a flier that you can print and distribute ( shockwave at inorbit dot com ), by spreading the word.
Here is our Facebook event page; http://www.facebook.com/...
We will hold a demonstration the last Friday of each month. But this 1st one will be historical.
We'll see you at Warner Center park next week.
Until then I will blog every day.
Also posted at My Left Wing.