gauguin57
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:36 AM
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So, when is there going to be a massive PRO-healthcare-reform rally? |
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We've got to counteract this racist nonsense from today. Tomorrow sounds like it won't be much more than a contained rally. WE NEED OUR OWN RALLY TO SHOW there are people passionate about healthcare reform (on the "pro" side). As Bill Maher said last night ... the teabaggers get out to townhall meetings and yell ... the rest of us are just yelling at the television.
Apparently, the "pro" march scheduled in DC for tomorrow (Sunday Sept. 13) has been changed to a smaller rally.
Sounds like the Americans United for Healthcare reform is saying Chaka Fattah pulled his support for Sept. 13 being the march day ... and then they had march permit problems? So it's just going to be a rally in Upper Senate Park instead of a march to the capitol.
"The location has changed from a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol to a rally at the Upper Senate Park"
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:37 AM
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1. Make me buy INS. I can't afford NOW! |
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:43 AM
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2. Some of us have to work. Have you noticed that most of these teabaggers are |
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retired? They have Medicare and Social Security so too bad for the rest of us. They've mobilized the old white faction and they have a lot more time to ride across the country with their benefits already secured. How many working age folks who are struggling to make ends meet can take the time and money to go to DC? Not many I'll wager.
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:47 AM
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4. Defeatist Attitude ! PLENTY came out against the war. Well, this is WAR too !! |
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Sat Sep-12-09 11:01 AM
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8. What is happening in Iraq/Afghanistan vindicated War protestors |
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I don't see this attitude as being defeatist. PROTESTING a mob won't help. We need to stay put and EDUCATE now more than ever. Yesterday I spoke to an elderly person (whom was a retired engineer) deeply concerned about Obama's healthcare plan. At the end of our conversation he was very happy to know that under his plan he would have more choices. He is a Republican that now believes why healthcare for all is important.
You don't picket ignorance you attack it full front by talking to people and answering questions when they are open to intelligent conversations.
People will forget teabaggers protests just the same way people forgot about war protestors (after they find out that they were wrong about the war and the war protestors right). Lets prove them wrong by educating those open to the possibilities.
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:49 PM
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16. Plenty did come out against the war, good thing it was stopped in it's tracks. |
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NOT.
It's all about whether the media decides to give attention and credibility to the movement. Obviously, they prefer the Teabaggers to the anti-war protesters. I wonder how much coverage they will give the pro-reform rally - no matter how many people show up.
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Sat Sep-12-09 11:13 AM
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9. Our party let things go too long and these citizens believe HCR |
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will hurt them. Take 500 Million out of Medicare and not hurt their benefits is unbelievable to them.
Things have to be spelled out.
I am not saying they are correct, I am trying to explain where they are coming from.
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RBInMaine
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:46 AM
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3. We need HUGE national Rally in DC. I just called Healthcare For America Now. PLEASE CALL THEM. |
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:53 AM
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5. Democrats will tirelessly work to get someone elected, then we are like "now what do we do?". |
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Its kinda like the one episode where Wiley Coyote finally catches the road runner.
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:56 AM
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6. There have been but the media REFUSES to acknowledge it. Same as the war protests. |
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:58 AM
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7. Yep. 1,000+ at rallies all over the country |
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Until they start getting posted online, the media won't pick them up. Unfortunately our side is too busy throwing rocks - again.
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Sat Sep-12-09 11:20 AM
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10. From what I see at DU there won't be one. Every time I post a call to arms |
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Nobody reads, nobody posts, and it quickly falls off the front.
I think our fingers on keyboards are our thing, and when that doesn't do the job we don't attempt to do anything.
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:28 PM
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11. If some organization organizes it, I will get my ass there. |
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I'm 2 1/2 hours from D.C. ... and I will get my ass there if it happens.
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Sat Sep-12-09 05:21 PM
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23. I don't know why MoveOn hasn't done it yet. |
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:34 PM
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13. I'll start posting threads |
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This fringe thing today will inspire a Washington rally. We have to, or the kooks with the loud mouths will seem to carry more weight.
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:35 PM
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We need to mobilize to show the mouth-breathers that they are in the MINORITY in this country.
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:38 PM
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15. I've never organized a rally |
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Do we email liberal groups? I'm really surprised nothing's cooking.
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:31 PM
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Let's get this thing rolling!
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:56 PM
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17. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) HAD declared tomorrow the day for the march. BUT ... |
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... apparently he UN-declared it (at least according to organizer for Americans United for Healthcare Reform).
We need some authoritative group to declare a rally day and get the permit, and then it can spread to the grassroots. The individual Democratic/Progressive/Social Justice organizations can get the buses organized.
And it needs to be done ASAP, and it needs to be done on a nice, temperate autumn weekend when folks will want to come to D.C.
AND ... we need to find some way of getting CNN, MSNBC, Fox (HA!) to cover it. Maybe if our signs are spelled properly and we have all our teeth, the media won't find us as interesting???
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Sat Sep-12-09 05:19 PM
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:58 PM
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18. No more than four years. |
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Sat Sep-12-09 01:30 PM
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19. I want to carry a sign that simply has the numerical percentage of health-reform supporters. |
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For example ... a recent poll showed 77 percent wanted a public option.
So my sign would simply say "77 percent."
I know, I know. Too subtle for the "Obama lied, Grandma died" crowd.
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Sat Sep-12-09 01:31 PM
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20. Patience. Now that the Pukes/crazies have blown their wad, we can do our thing. |
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I will certainly be there to help out. We will blow these losers out of the water.
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Sat Sep-12-09 05:20 PM
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22. I'm not sure when in D.C., however |
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I know a few friends throughout the country attending rallies today.
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