Submitted by Marc Stier on Mon, 01/12/2009 – 3:34am.
Be There for Health Care!
Welcome people on Saturday, January 17th as they line up to hear President-Elect Barack Obama at the first stop of his train trip to Washington before his inauguration
As a volunteer greeter on Saturday January 17th, you will be part of the largest mobilization of health care for all advocates Philadelphia has ever seen! Volunteers will:
·Work in pairs signing up folks as they wait on line to enter the speech venue.
·Ask everyone to sign a post card to Senators Specter and Casey
– Calling for guaranteed, quality, affordable health care for all.
– Endorsing the Obama / Health Care For America Now principles of health care reform that call for every American to be able to choose affordable health insurance either from their current insurer, another private insurance plan or a public plan open to all
President Elect- Barack Obama is coming to Philadelphia on the 17th. We don’t know exactly when and where his speech will be, although we expect it sometime Saturday morning. We will email and phone you with the staging area for our effort on Friday as soon as we know.
PLEASE SIGN UP TO BE A VOLUNTEER GREETER TODAY!
RSVP by Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Call Marc Stier at 215 880-6142
Or go on sign-up online at
http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/s/hcanobama
This mobilization is a project of HealthCare for America Now which is supported by 50 progressive organizations around the state with more joining every day.
That database of activists we collect will be shared with all of our coalition partners. So by supporting this effort you aren’t just helping win health care reform, you helping build the progressive movement in Pennsylvania.
(Although winning quality affordable health care for all, after we have been waiting since the New Deal for it, really should be motivation enough, no?)
You can find out more about our campaign at http://www.healthcareforamericanow.org