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Sit-In Demonstrators Deliver Surprises to SF Blue Shield

by photos by RA and RR
About 200 people demonstrated with surprises for Blue Shield in San Francisco today to demand that the company stop blocking health care reform. Street theater props included a giant Octopus of Death and cigars for the "Billionaires for Wealthcare". The Billionaires were accompanied by their own French maid Fifi who served them in wine glasses emblazoned with the Blue Shield logo.

top photo by RA: 30 people sat in front of the entrance to the Blue Shield building at 50 Beale. Others cheered them on from the sidewalk, spilling out onto the street.
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Participants included:
Health Care for All-California, Vote Health, Code Pink, AFSCME Council 57, Single Payer Now, Pride at Work, LAGAI-Queer Insurrection, Labor for Single Payer, Wellstone Democratic Club, Direct Action to Stop the War, California Physicians Alliance, Gray Panthers, Billionaires for Wealthcare Satire Group and the Raging Grannies.
§A Billionaire for Wealthcare mocks the Blue Shield Attitude
by photos by RA and RR
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photo by RA
§Blocking and Mocking
by photos by RA and RR
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Photo courtesy RR
§Healthcare NOT warfare
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CodePink banner
photo by RA
§Cigars for billionaires
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Fifi the French maid at the ready
photo by RR
§Fifi dusts off demonstrators
by photos by RA and RR
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photo by RR
§Early arriving Fifi with Blue Shield glassware
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The better to serve the Blue Shield supporting billionaires!
photo by RR
§octopus of death will grab and squeeze you to death!
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A billionaire observes
Photo by RR
§A woman needs a maid
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§Billionaires strike a pose
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RR
§Later they are off to shop...
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...and buy a congressman they will!
RR
§Two sides?
by photos by RA and RR
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RR
§Crowd shouts
by photos by RA and RR
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RR
§Billionaires meet a single payer advocate
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RR
§Demonstrators Chalked up the sidewalk in front
by photos by RA and RR
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RR
§Now who altered the Blue Cross billboard at the bus stop?
by photos by RA and RR
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Hmmm...a check the night before revealed that the "damage" was already done. The single payer sticker was spotted after the demo, however.
RR
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