33 North For Change Original Health Care Videos September 9, 2009
Lyn Goldfarb and Dustin Slaughter of 33NorthForChange produced some video. This video was posted by OFA – CA to the OFA YouTube site. And then it was removed – because it doesn’t conform to the national message. Please visit, watch and send to all your friends.
Also here was our message to Dianne Feinstein
Little late, but good info, another petition September 9, 2009
Go to the link for some good answers to the health reform myths. Also,
another petition to sign for another politician to show their position.
http://harryreid.com/content/reform-myths/
Some Unfortunate News September 7, 2009
Activists,
We are sorry to report that we canceled our event scheduled for Sunday, Sept 6.
Late Friday night, someone signed up for our event with a threatening screen name, and using profanity. We want to be able to continue to have events at the Market, and preserving those privileges urges us to think as they would think. We’re sure the managers of the market would not tolerate a disruptive incident.
We will be continuing our fight for the objectives we all hold dear. And we’re sure that the individual who chose this way to act out will grow bored and go away.
We will also be canceling the subsequent data management (Sunday afternoon) and sorting/compiling (Tuesday eve) work events.
Future events are still on schedule, and will proceed with notices for them coming by mid-week.
Another Petition to Keep the Public Option September 5, 2009
This is a joint message from TrueMajority and Health Care for America Now, a massive nationwide coalition of citizens’ groups co-founded by our parent organization, USAction. All across this gigantic movement we agree that there is one crucial thing to do right now. Read on.
– Matt Holland, TrueMajority.org
President Obama will give a major speech on health reform this coming Wednesday. In it, he’ll lay out his vision for health reform.1
Two weeks ago, on a webcast with hundreds of thousands of supporters, the President reiterated his strong support for a public health insurance option. Now, he is under enormous pressure from conservatives in both parties – and some advisers – to drop it.2
Press reports indicate President Obama has not decided what his upcoming speech will say.3 It is at this crucial moment that he needs to hear from you most.
Barack Obama ran for President on the promise of real change. He promised to break the stranglehold private insurers have on our health and our wallets, and break the stranglehold corporate money and lobbyists have on Washington.
It’s not going to be easy to change all that. That’s why the President needs to hear from you.
Can you sign this petition and let President Obama know that you’ll fight with him for a public health insurance option? Can you let him know that you’re counting on him for bold leadership to bring us quality, affordable health care including a public health insurance option?
Click here to Sign the petition.
The petition says: President Obama, we’re counting on you to fight for bold change on health care. We need quality, affordable health care we all can count on, including a strong public health insurance option. It’s the key to breaking the stranglehold that private insurers have over our health care system.
Health reform is at a crossroads.
The forces arrayed against the President are numerous. Insurance companies are spending millions every day to defeat the public health insurance option.4 Republicans are opposing anything he supports.5 Lobbyists are stoking hatred and fear at town halls around the country.6 And the media is feeding the controversy and refusing the cover the fact that pro-reform people outnumber those who are against at events.7
In this climate, President Obama needs to know you stand behind him for bold, real change.
Click here to Sign the petition to the President, telling him you stand with him for the change we all believe in – quality, affordable health care with a public health insurance option to break the insurance industry stranglehold.
As the President himself often says, change comes from the bottom up. We need to show the President and everyone in Washington that we voted for real change and we’re willing to fight for real change.
With bold leadership and the people behind him, President Obama can win the change we need – real health care reform for all, affordable coverage, and a public health insurance option.
Please Sign the petition
-Matt
Matt Holland
Online Director
TrueMajority / USAction
1. Obama to give health-care speech to joint session of Congress – Associated Press
2. Obama Aides Aim to Simplify and Scale Back Health Bills – New York Times
3. The Divisions in the White House Over Health-Care Reform – Ezra Klein
4. Lobbyists Spend Millions to Influence Health Care – Washington Post
5. Health reform foes plan Obama’s ‘Waterloo’ – Politico
6. Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’ – Think Progress
7. The Real Town Hall Story – E.J. Dionne Jr.
Our Hard work September 5, 2009
From OFA –
At the beginning of August, President Obama wrote to the OFA community to challenge us to work hard, break through the noise and give the American people a voice in the fight for health insurance reform.
It wasn’t easy: With Congress back home, special interests and partisan attack groups went into overdrive spreading lies, and the media seemed to broadcast any story of conflict or division they could find.
But you accepted the President’s challenge — and delivered.
See it for yourself: Check out the latest photos and stories from around the country.
Our strategy for the month was simple: engage the millions of individuals who know we need change to fight the lies and tell the truth, build support for reform, and ensure that support is highly visible while members of Congress are home gauging public opinion. We continued our methodical, battle-tested approach of volunteers reaching out online and offline in every part of the country. We offered the facts, answered questions and engaged those who were ready to get involved.
And the results were extraordinary. OFA supporters like you came together in an unprecedented way over the past four weeks — and it couldn’t have happened without the individual volunteers who make it all possible:
Folks like Rebecca E. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who voted for the first time last year — and collected more than 1,800 health care declarations this summer. Across the country, we’ve collected more than 1 million signatures in support of the President’s core principles for health insurance reform.
Supporters like Nita L. in Longmont, Colorado, who organized hundreds of supporters in her town to come with her to talk with their member of Congress about how much this fight means to them. They were among the more than 70,000 folks who showed up at 350 town halls — where supporters of reform at times outnumbered opponents by 10-1 — and volunteers who made 65,000 trips to local congressional offices.
It’s the people who made more than 100,000 calls to Congress to thank representatives fighting for change — like Nancy T. in Hendersonville, North Carolina, who hosted a health care phone booth because, after her heart transplant, she knows that no American should have to choose between financial ruin and getting the care they need.
It’s the 1,500 supporters who filled a local recreation center in Kansas City, Missouri, at a town hall meeting with Senator Claire McCaskill, and the 2,500 people who jammed the streets to hear from Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio — just two of the more than 4,000 events where folks gathered to show their support across all 50 states in August.
All of these signatures, calls, office drop-bys, conversations, gatherings, and town hall meetings, all of the late nights, homemade signs, long hours in the sun, and tireless volunteers who make it happen — totaling more than 1.5 million people who’ve taken part in this campaign for real reform — it all adds up to one incredible movement for change.
Check out the latest photos and stories from the field to see this movement in action:
http://my.barackobama.com/ontheground
As Congress returns to D.C. and we roll up our sleeves for the final push toward reform, we know the hardest work may yet lie ahead. The special interests and those in Congress who have pledged to oppose the President no matter what will stoop even lower in the weeks ahead.
But you should never doubt that we face the coming challenges together, as part of something far larger than any of us alone — and far stronger than the old broken politics that have preserved the status quo for long enough.
Our strategy is working. We are going to win this thing. Americans will finally get the health insurance reform we all need.
Thank you for making it possible,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
P.S. — We’re looking for great stories, photos, and videos from the Health Insurance Reform Now events to share with the rest of the OFA community — and we’re counting on folks like you who went to these events. If you have one to share, please click here to submit it:
http://my.barackobama.com/Share
Volunteers: Save the Public Option! September 4, 2009
There has been a lot of speculation recently about President Obama’s willingness to abandon te public option. We have bee. Working hard showing the strong public support for a reform that INCLUDES a public option. Here’s a petition geared specifically towards those of us who did the hard work to get President Obama elected. Please let the Whitehouse know what you think!
Petition to President Obama:
“We worked so hard for real change. President Obama, please demand a strong public health insurance option in your speech to Congress. Letting the insurance companies win would not be change we can believe in.”
Or cut and paste this URL into your browser: http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5649/t/4951/content.jsp?content_KEY=2793&tag=pod_main-email1
Awesome Video September 2, 2009
This is a link to the video our amazing volunteers Lyn and Dustin put together about the health care forum that Rep Schiff had last month.
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v18969901j5ghMB87
Health Care Protest September 2, 2009
As most of you are already aware, there is an event tomorrow night at the Cornfield Park just outside of Chinatown in downtown LA tomorrw (Thursday Spet 3). Details for the event can be found at http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpfktx
I know they are looking for volunteers to help out, so once you get there find someone who looks like they are running things and offer your services.
See everyone there!
Modernize Voter Registration April 10, 2009
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Make your voice heard! Take a few minutes to call on Congress to modernize our registration system! One sure-fire way to reach your legislators is to get your paper to print a letter to the editor. |
With your help, Election Protection and its partners have worked valiantly to protect the rights of voters across the country, but there is still work to be done! Help voters in 2009 by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper in support of modernizing our antiquated voter registration system. It will take just a few minutes!
A few weeks ago, I asked you to send our 2008 Election Protection report to Congress. We are starting to build momentum, but we need your help!
Senator Schumer called the voter registration system “the lifeblood of our republic.” You know what? He’s right, but unfortunately our registration system is in dire need of a transfusion. According to a study by leading election experts an estimated 9 million eligible Americans tried to register but failed due to barriers created by our 19th Century voter registration system in 2008!
Getting a letter published in your local paper is a great way to get your Congressional Representatives’ attention. Taking just a few minutes out of your day to send in a letter can have a major impact.
It’s important that we stand up for this needed change in 2009 so that more voters won’t be disenfranchised in 2010.
With your help, we’re going to ensure that all eligible American citizens are able to cast a meaningful ballot in future elections.
Sincerely,
Jonah Goldman
Director
National Campaign for Fair Elections
Legal Leader of the Election Protection Coalition
