Southern Oregonians Mobilize to Salem for Healthcare Reform
H E A L T H * C A R E * F O R * A L L * O R E G O N, 18.01.2013 00:45
Sign Up to Rally for Universal Health Care in Salem on Feb. 4, 2013
Get on the bus in Ashland, Medford or Grants Pass!
Rally for Universal Health Care in Oregon
Monday, February 4 – State Capitol
Kick off the 1st day of the legislative session and the push for universal health care for everyone in Oregon. Representative Michael Dembrow has re-introduced the Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Act. It is time to get behind the bill and push for passage. This is a tremendous job and to do it, we need to create a massive grassroots movement that is impossible to ignore.
Everybody In — Nobody Out
FEB 4, 2013 — STEPS OF OREGON STATE CAPITOL — SALEM
Can you commit to be there?
6:00 am bus leave Ashland Bimart Parking lot
6:45 am bus leave Medford Food-4-Less parking lot
7:30 am bus pickup in Grants Pass Grants Pass at the WalMart parking lot, exit 55
- - SALEM SCHEDULE - -
9:30am- 10:30am sign in, Room 50, Capitol Building
10:30am – 11:30am march (weather permitting)
11:30am – 12:30pm rally with speakers and music
12:30 – 1:00 pm lobby training
1 pm – 3 pm lunch/lobby
3:30 − 4 pm bus leaves Salem
8, 8:30, 9pm bus back in Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland
Remember: wear red, bring a lunch and snack, and bring your rain gear, too!
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SOUTHERN OREGONIANS
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Please let us know if you want to ride one of the buses ($30 suggested donation, space is limited): call Wes at 541-488-6988 or Jason at 541-622-9483.
Sign up online at Peace House 
http://www.peacehouse.net
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MORE ABOUT FEB 4, 2013 AND HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OREGON http://www.hcao.org
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On February 4, 2013, the first day of the legislative session, Health Care for All Oregon (HCAO) will be rallying on the capitol steps in Salem to demonstrate support for the cause of universal health care. Organizers hope that with a large enough presence, HCAO will be able to get the issue on the agenda of the politicians who can move forward on legislation.
HCAO is a coalition of doctors, health care providers, community organizers, politicians and residents on a mission to create a comprehensive, equitable, publicly funded, high quality, universal health care system serving everyone in Oregon. According to HCAO, “we’ve been working over the last year to establish a broad coalition of over 62 member organizations and 20 grassroots groups of local supporters, and we’ve just begun to grow!”
“Representative Michael Dembrow has re-introduced the Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Act, and it is time to get behind the bill and push for passage. In order to pass this bill into law, we need to create a massive grassroots movement that takes action and is impossible to ignore.” said an HCAO spokesperson.
HCAO and other health care organizers are planning a day of activities on the capitol steps in Salem including a rally, marches and lobbying for health care as a human right. Organizers are asking everyone to wear red to demonstrate solidarity for universal, publicly funded health care for all. In Southern Oregon, local organizations are helping to arrange transportation. Save the date and contact your local group to arrange a ride share or reserve a spot on a bus to Salem.
For the bus, round trip cost is $30 and some scholarships are available. In Ashland, the bus is scheduled to leave “Promptly” at 6:00 a.m. from the BiMart parking lot with a pickups in Medford leaving the Food For Less parking lot at 6:45 a.m and another pickup in Grants Pass leaving the Walmart parking lot (exit 55) at 7:30 a.m. before heading to Salem.
For more information, visit http://www. hcao.org In Southern Oregon go to http://www.sojwj.org. To reserve your space on the bus, contact Wes Brain at 541-482-6988 or email 
brain@mind.net or contact Jason Houk at 541-622-9483, jason@kskq.org Sign up online at Peace House http://www.peacehouse.net
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