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PROGRESSIVE GROUPS LAUNCH MASSIVE HEALTH CARE PUSH: CONGRESS TO RECEIVE A MILLION MESSAGES TODAY URGING ACTION ON HEALTH
MoveOn, ProgressiveCongress, HCAN, SEIU, DFA, TrueMajority, USAction, UFCW, EQUAL, Campaign for America’s Future, MomsRi |
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The nation’s leading progressive organizations are joining forces today for "A Virtual March on Washington" to send Congress one million messages urging action on health care reform. This will be the single largest day of action yet in the health care fight. "The Virtual March on Washington: A Million Voices for Change" campaign is bringing together some of the largest progressive organizations in the nation including, MoveOn.org Political Action, Progressive Congress Action Fund, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Campaign for America’s Future, Democracy for America (DFA), TrueMajority, USAction, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), EQUAL, MomsRising.org and FixItandPassIt.com. The virtual march will happen a day before the White House health care summit and on the same day Melanie's March will be arriving in DC from Philadelphia and holding a rally on Capitol Hill. The organizations released the following joint statement: "As Washington plays politics as usual instead of fixing our broken system, people are dying. Americans simply cannot wait for comprehensive health care reform - it's time for Congress to stand up to Big Insurance and their conservative allies, and get reform done right. During the Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform, we'll send a million messages to Congress to make sure they know that voters want them to get to work and get health care done. Our message is simple: It's time for Washington to stop stalling. Pass real health care reform now." Congress will receive messages today via phone, fax, email, Facebook, Twitter and petition. For more information, please visit: http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch10/action.html ### |
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| About Joe Hansen: President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Joe has played a key role in the negotiation of contracts covering hundreds of thousands of workers in the retail and food manufacturing industries. An original member of the Citizens’ Health Care Working Group, Hansen served as the sole worker representative in that congressionally chartered body. The group facilitated a groundbreaking national dialogue that resulted in a bipartisan consensus on the need for affordable, quality care for all Americans. About the UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) represents more than 1.3 million workers, primarily in the retail and meatpacking, food processing and poultry industries. The UFCW protects the rights of workers and strengthens America’s middle class by fighting for health care reform, living wages, retirement security, safe working conditions and the right to unionize so that working men and women and their families can realize the American Dream, and is a charter member of organization Health Care for America Now - a key voice in America’s health care reform movement. |
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