Reply #11: Yes, I have been thinking of creative ways, even performance art. [View All]

[Cleita]

We need to go after our representatives but we also need to go after the insurance companies. One of the protests I envisioned was a row of wooden or cardboard tombstones (no crosses or any religious symbols) along a well traveled route that perhaps has a lot of health insurance headquarters lining it. People can come and put a name on the tombstone and put pictures of relatives, flowers and candles on each tombstone who died from being denied either insurance or a procedure by this companies. We can have areas like a Humana area, an Aetna area, a BC/BS area, etc., etc.. Maybe we could get a permit for this. A variation of this was done at Camp Casey with the boots of fallen soldiers.

Buckets of spattered blood(paint that can be removed, cause we don't want to do any destructive vandalism) on the sidewalks in front of insurance company buildings with those outlines that police use around murder victims. Put a slogan on it. "They Died Because You Denied.") This can be done ninja style in the middle of the night. Protesters, other than those of us who will be taking pictures of the reactions, can be gone when people arrive for work the next day.

I'm thinking of a few other things. The point is to get their attention, make them uncomfortable, disrupt business as usual without being destructive or violent. Let any violence come from them instead.

Since the laws are being made in Washington we have to start demonstrating there while Congress is in session, really large rallies, marches and if need be sit ins in the halls where the offices of the offending Representatives and Congressmen are as well as where the hearings are heard.