Michael Moore to be in San Francisco today City Hall-time???

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/13/MNG88QE4UJ1.DTL

Moore lobbies Sacramento for healing
Filmmaker, health care activists promote 'Sicko' while demanding reforms in industry
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 13, 2007



(06-13) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- As Michael Moore stood on the west steps of the Capitol on Tuesday and led 1,000 activists in chanting "It's time for them to go" -- health insurance companies, that is -- he looked less like a Hollywood director promoting his new takedown of the health care industry and more like the frontman of a national political campaign.

That's because he is both.

In the days before Moore's film "Sicko" opens June 29 in 3,000 theaters nationwide, the director will be the centerpiece of a campaign that melds activism, policy, politics and Hollywood into a media force like no other widely released film. The campaign premiered Tuesday in Sacramento -- complete with nurses wearing red surgical scrubs and chanting "Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Private health care is sick-o!"

Today, Moore's campaign stops in San Francisco, where the filmmaker will meet with Mayor Gavin Newsom at City Hall to discuss the city's groundbreaking health coverage plan. Over the next few weeks, similar stops by Moore are planned in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New Hampshire. The online activist hub MoveOn.org plans to ask its 3.2 million members to support the film, distribute information outside theaters and lobby Congress, much as it received pledges from 110,000 members to see Moore's previous film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," on opening weekend.

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1. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Michael Moore will meet this morning

sorry, still can't find a time

http://www.nbc11.com/news/13494437/detail.html

Michael Moore To Meet With Mayor Newsom

POSTED: 6:49 am PDT June 13, 2007
UPDATED: 7:10 am PDT June 13, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will sit down with filmmaker Michael Moore Wednesday morning for a roundtable discussion on healthcare.

The Oscar-winning director was given rock star treatment at the state capitol Tuesday for the debut of his new film called "Sicko," an indictment of the U.S. health care system.

Moore said the government should provide free health care for everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

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Moore said he wants to stop insurance companies from making health care decisions.