[Nyclocal] **Thurs. 6/19 - National Day of Protest Against Health Insurance Companies

[William Wharton]

--- noprivatization <noprivatization at yahoo.com> wrote:

> To: coalitionagainstprivatization at yahoogroups.com
> From: "noprivatization" <noprivatization at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:22:06 -0000
> Subject: [coalitionagainstprivatization] **Thurs.
> 6/19 - National Day of Protest Against Health
> Insurance Companies
> 
> **Thursday, June 19th, 5:00 pm - Protest: "National
> Day of Protest Against Health Insurance Companies"
> 
> Join New Yorkers on Thursday June 19th for a day of
> protest against health insurance profiteering.  We
> will speak-out against the proposed privatization of
> GHI and HIP and claim Health Care as a basic human
> right!  We will mourn the countless victims of the
> health insurance industry while marking Juneteenth –
> a
> day commemorating the emancipation of slaves in
> North
> America. The NYC action is one of 17 others
> nation-wide
> in solidarity with activists in San Francisco, CA
> who
> will be protesting the annual meeting of 38,000
> health
> insurance executives.  On June 19th, join fellow New
> Yorkers in declaring our emancipation from
> for-profit
> healthcare and support for the single-payer national
> health insurance bill H. R. 676.
> 
> Bring friends & signs. 
> 
> 5:00 pm - Meet at Office of GHI, 441 9th Avenue
> (34th
> & 9th)
> 5:30 pm – March to United Health, One Penn Plaza,
> (34th St. btw. 7th & 8th)
> (A/C/E or 1/2/3 to 34th Street) 
> 
> For more info on the movement to oppose GHI/HIP
> privatization:
> http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/06/97606.shtml
> http://www.myspace.com/saveourhealthcare
> 
> For more info on the movement for Single-Payer
> National Health Insurance:
> http://www.healthcare-now.org/
> http://www.phimg.org/V2/
> 
> March Organizers
> Healthcare Now!, The Coalition Against
> Privatization,
> Private Health Insurance Must Go!, Physicians for a
> National Health
> Program
> 
> Supporters
> Teachers for a Just Contract (UFT), Independent
> Community of Educators (UFT), UFT Retirees Caucus,
> TWU
> Local 100 rank and file members, D.C. 37
> rank-and-file
> members, D.C. 37 retirees, Socialist Party USA
> (NYC),
> & Socialist Action.
> 
> More Info: (718) 869-2279, noprivatization at yahoo.com
> (request flyer)
> 
>