March Across the Brooklyn Bridge
for Health Care Reform & the 'Change Agenda'
Call Out the Special Interests
and their Political Obstructionists
that are stopping 'Change' in Washington!
SAT., FEB. 20
For Staten Islanders wishing to travel together:
10:15 a.m. - Meet at S.I. Ferry & take 10:30 departure boat
11:00 a.m. - Take Brooklyn bound R Train to Court St.
For all Others:
11:30 a.m. - Gather in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn
12 noon - March steps off
1 p.m. - Rally at Broad & Wall Sts. in front of the NY Stock Exchange (take 2, 3, 4, or 5 trains to Wall St.)
Bring posters, signs, and banners!
·AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE. Washington must move forward on a Change Agenda!
·HEALTH CARE IS THE WEDGE ISSUE FOR THE CHANGE AGENDA.If health care moves, so does everything else: jobs and labor law reform, climate change, financial services reform, and immigration reform.
·WASHINGTON MUST FINISH THE JOB ON HEALTH CARE.Get health care reform done, get it done right, and get it done now!
·THE SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THEIR POLITICAL SHILLS ARE STOPPING HEALTH CARE AND THE CHANGE AGENDA - health insurers, drug companies, banks and Wall St. firms, business trade groups.
Participating groups [list in formation]: Barack Obama Democratic Club, Citizen Action of NYC, Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU Healthcare, Communications Workers of America, Downtown East for Obama, Eric's Law, Health Care for All NY, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, MoveOn, National Physicians Alliance, NW Bronx for Change, NY Immigration Coalition, NYC for Change, Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need, UWS Baby Boomers for Change, Queens County for Change, Westchester Health Care Reform Task Force
For more information or to sign-on as a sponsor, contact nycforchange.health@gmail.com or 212-925-1829