.
Instead of worrying about The Right showing up screaming against health care reform, these folks figured out what should probably have been done all along. People who believe in Single-Payer need to get loud and do some appearances at “moderate” and other “Obama-style” health care dog and pony shows.
Excellent coverage–including video–of single-payer folks who interceded in a rally that was exclusively for the “watered down” public option proposal. This was forwarded to me by David McReynolds.
From Brandon Collins:
> Here is a link to some news footage of me at a rally today.
> http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/video?clipID=4069242&autoStart=true&contentID=54617257
(same link as above)
> basically what happened- I, and two other people were invited to speak at a
> rally for single-payer, I have a copy of the original e-mail should anyone want
> to see it, a bunch of folks in Charlottesville were duped into attending a
> rally for HR 676, only to find it was really in support of HR 3200.
>
> Well, yesterday, I and the others were informed that we were no longer invited
> to speak, and that there was to be no talk of single-payer.
>
> So we organized a counter-rally, the other two speakers were David Swanson
> (well known activist) and Andrea Miller (outspoken single-payer supporter and
> former congressional candidate).
>
> David made it down, Andrea stayed in Richmond.
> I and two comrades from the SP Central Virginia local showed up, brought some
> friends, and were greeted by a whole bunch of folks who had come ready to
> support single-payer.
>
> I got interviewed on both local news stations, I will post the other link if it
> becomes available. Also a few pics I will post soon. (note in the footage, a
> lot of the signs were made by me, also passed out some healthcare “report
> cards”)
>
> More information about this can be found on David Swanson’s website-
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/45426
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