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Nurses, Doctors, Healthcare Activists to Greet Sicko Audiences With Call for Guaranteed Healthcare

by CalNurses (reposted)

Sat, Jun 30, 2007 5:53PM

Thursday, June 28, 2007 : Broad National Coalition to Enlist Movie Goers to Join Campaign For Medicare for All Style Reform without Insurance Interference Registered nurses, doctors, and healthcare and community activists – part of a broad, national coalition – will be out in force in America's theaters this weekend as Michael Moore’s "SiCKO," a riveting indictment of the healthcare industry, opens across the nation.

More than 20,000 RNs have already volunteered to participate, part of an effort to also get one million nurses to see the film.

From coast to coast, the caregivers and community leaders will be inviting moviegoers to see the film and then fix our healthcare system by urging our legislators and political candidates to support reforms that guarantee universal healthcare for all – while getting the insurance companies who systematically deny needed medical care out of the way.

Among the scores of cities where filmgoers can expect to see the volunteers are New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Albany (NY), Ashville (NC), Atlanta, Austin, Bethesda (MD), Boise, Boston, Cary (NC), Cherry Hill (NJ), Cleveland, Clifton (NJ), Dallas, Denver, Fresno, Houston, Huntington (NY), Indianapolis, Long Beach, Louisville, Madison (WI), Memphis, Montpelier (VT), Nashville, New Brunswick (NJ), New Orleans, Oakland, Orange (CA), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland (ME), Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, South Orange (NJ), Stockton (CA), and Tucson (partial list).

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§Michael Moore to Join Nurses at Wall Street Press Conference to Call for Divestment From Health Insurance Companies

by CalNurses (reposted)

Sat, Jun 30, 2007 5:54PM

Thursday, June 28, 2007 : NEW YORK—A day before his acclaimed new film “SiCKO” opens across the nation, director Michael Moore will head to Wall Street Thursday afternoon, where he will call on individuals, pension funds, the government and other investors to divest from publicly traded health insurance companies.

Moore will stand with nurses from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), and New York Professional Nurses Union (NYPNU) in calling for this major action.

The press conference – on Thursday, June 28, 2007, at 3:15 pm – will take place in front of Federal Hall (26 Wall Street) in downtown Manhattan.

Who: Michael Moore, nurses from CNA/ NNOC, MNA, NYPNU
What: Press Conference to Call on Working Americans to Divest from Health Insurance Companies.
Where: In front of Federal Hall – 26 Wall Street, NYC
When: Thursday, June 28, 2007 – 3:15 pm

This is the latest in a period of intense organizing by an unprecedented national coalition of activist nurse groups working together on the “Scrubs for SiCKO” campaign. This campaign aims to recruit at least one nurse in signature red “SiCKO” scrubs to every opening night showing of the movie across the country, with the goal of enlisting moviegoers into the campaign to win for guaranteed healthcare for all.

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