Politics
WMSPN Summer Meeting09/05/2009 - 9:12am 09/05/2009 - 11:30am
9:30-11:30am, Lathrop Village Community Room, 1 Shallow Brook Drive, off Bridge Rd, Northampton. The Western Massachusetts Single Payer Network is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of advocates committed to achieving a universal single payer health care system. At our quarterly meetings, we check in with each other to see how we're doing on meeting our Organizational Goals: Connecticut Delegation Send Off09/02/2009 - 4:26pm 09/02/2009 - 6:00pm 4:30-6pm, 221 Main St, Hartford CT. Sending the Connecticut Congressional Delegation back to Washington with thousands of declarations of support for meaningful health insurance reform. March from Congressman John Larson's office (221 Main St) to Senator Chris Dodd's office (30 Lewis St). Ride from Amherst: Bart Bouricius, 256-1376, canopy.bart@gmail.com, who will be carrying a sign reading “Single Payer: a Public Option.” Michael Ratner of Center for Constitutional Rights09/02/2009 - 4:30pm 09/02/2009 - 4:30pm
4:30pm, Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Library, Rt 9, Northampton. His topic is CCR's 100 days campaign and his book, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book. Info: ntalanian@gmail.com. Franklin County Workers' Rights Committee09/02/2009 - 7:00pm 09/02/2009 - 8:30pm 7-8:30pm, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, 24 Miles St, Greenfield (773-7427). Organizing local solidarity for Franklin County workers and unions; nurses and other workers at Franklin Medical Center; Greenfield municipal employees; and statewide and national workers' rights campaigns, including People's Bail-Out and Employee Free Choice Act. "Making Contact" Radio Show on Rite Aid and the Employee Free Choice Act09/02/2009 - 5:30pm 09/02/2009 - 5:30pm
5:30pm, WMUA 91.1 FM. With only 12% of American workers in unions (down from a third in the 1950s), passing the Employee Free Choice Act is one of Labor's number top goals. Neal Appeal & Whole Foods Boycott Meeting09/01/2009 - 7:00pm 09/01/2009 - 9:30pm 7pm, Lathrop Village Community Room, 1 Shallow Brook Drive, off Bridge Rd, Northampton. The Western Mass. Single Payer Network continues planning events asking Congressman Richard Neal to support the single-payer solution to the health care crisis and planning a Whole Foods Boycott action too. Info: Jon Weissman, 827-0301 x1, wmspn@wmjwj.org. |




