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Breaking: Single Payer Advocates Arrested Inside Pelosi's Office

by single payer now
Union representatives, health care activists, Raging Grannies and others are demonstrating at Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco right now.
At about 11am, a coalition of health care advocates for a single payer system rallied at the UN Plaza in San Francisco and then marched to occupy Pelosi's office at the SF Federal Building at 7th and Stevenson.

As of 1pm, there are 16 demonstrators still conducting a sit-in inside of her office and about 100 outside. There is a heavy police presence and those inside are risking arrest in order to make their demands be heard. Those outside are performing street theater including a WellPoint clown, octopus of death, and Billionaires for Wealthcare.

At 2:20pm, police arresting sit-in demonstrators.

At 2:35pm, protesters reported they met with Dan Bernal district director for Pelosi who said she is in DC. He would not put them on the phone with her. Twelve arrested, cited and released for disrupting Fed building.

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