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11 arrested at pelosi's office, for guaranteed healthcare
the struggle for guaranteed healthcare moved today to rep. nancy pelosi’s district office, as 11 healthcare advocates were arrested for protesting the leadership's decision to bar votes on single-payer amendments to the house bill. these protests, led by labor unions and seniors, followed up similar sit-ins over the past few days in the offices of reps. henry waxman and george miller.
as has been reported elsewhere, house leadership pulled the "kucinich amendment" from the current version of the bill.
the upshot of this is that states who want to implement single-payer systems—-such as california—will be barred from doing so. it’s one more gift to the cruel insurance corporations, dressed up with the bow of reform.
http://national-nurses-movement.dailykos.com/
protesters arrested in pelosi's office
san francisco -- federal police on tuesday arrested 12 supporters of a single-payer health care system who entered house speaker nancy pelosi's san francisco offices and refused to leave until they talked to the congresswoman.
police arrested them for creating a disturbance on federal property nearly three hours after they entered pelosi's offices.
pelosi was not in the office and did not talk to them by telephone....
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/04/mn6i1aeplp.dtl&type=health
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