{news} FW: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families]

Fri Jun 29 14:15:54 EDT 2007

I definitely do not have the time to take any kind of lead role, but I can help for a few hours over the weekend if anyone can organize something.

  Also, I highly reccomend working with Working Families.

  -Colin

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mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org               Some Greens were considering petitioning or otherwise contacting people outside “Sicko.”  WFP is organizing a similar effort.  We can join ‘em or we can do it on our own, but I wanted everyone to be aware of this effort.

    Jean

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From: Jon Green [mailto:jgreen at workingfamiliesparty.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:08 PM
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Subject: Making Connecticut Sicko [CT Working Families]

CT Working Families
      Action Alert: Healthcare

              Making Connecticut Sicko
    6/28/07

                Michael Moore's Sicko opens in Connecticut this weekend. We want you to join us at a screening. We'll be outside, asking folks to sign a petition to our legislators, urging them to pass real healthcare reform. Take a look at showtimes.

Most people understand the failures in our current healthcare system. Hundreds of thousands of us in Connecticut are living through those failures every day. Our healthcare system puts profits before people.

So what happened? In the state legislature, a few tweaks, but nothing to address the inequality or inefficiencies fundamental to our system. And in the coming years, the system will strain further and further, if we don't do something.

Luckily, we've got a great opportunity to keep the campaign alive after the session and to build the movement for healthcare reform. Sicko shows the severity of the healthcare crisis across the country. And he even takes the insurance industry to task.Thousand and thousands of people will see this movie, and they'll want to know what they can do.

Let's show them. We're building volunteer teams to stand outside the film on opening weekend, to talk to people, hand out flyers, gather information, and plug people into the campaign. If you think that next year, the campaign for healthcare reform has to be twice as big, volunteer for a half hour this weekend. We'll supply all the materials. If you're angry, (and you should be) get out and volunteer to build the campaign. It'll be fun. We might even break out our old Aetna banner and our barf bags.

And hey -- if you can't volunteer, now would be a great time to contribute to help us pay for all the work we've done, and all we've got ahead of us to bring real comprehensive healthcare reform to Connecticut.

That's all for now. Pay your dues, read the papers -- and organize. 

            Sincerely,

Jon Green
Executive Director
Connecticut Working Families 

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