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Message to Blue Dogs: Keep Health Care Reform Moving!
Week in Community Values July 23, 2009
Born out of a mass rejection of
the failed policies of individualism and divisiveness, the Campaign for Community Values is a return to the beliefs
our country was founded on: shared responsibility, shared sacrifice and shared
success.
Take a look at the great work our
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Message to Blue Dogs: Keep Health Care Reform
Moving!
Grassroots continue to build
momentum on Capitol Hill
Washington – While the grassroots
momentum is growing, Blue Dog Democrats continue to place special interests
above the people. If Blue Dogs like Rep. Zack Space (D-OH) and Rep. Bart Gordon
(D-TN) want to hold strong on claims of wanting every American to have access to
affordable and quality health care coverage, they cannot continue to threaten to
block legislation drafted by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in order to
slow down reform.
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A new report released by Families USA shows that hundreds
of people in Tennessee are losing
their health care every day. Grassroots groups continue to deliver the message
to Rep. Gordon that they cannot wait any longer!
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Delaying reform simply will not fly for Ohioans
either. Constituents gathered outside of
Rep. Space’s office this week to urge him to support
America's
Affordable Health Choices Act. Some cited
not being able to pay their utilities because of health related costs. The
message is clear: health care reform cannot wait because Americans need it
now.
For more
information on the health care reform events, please contact Germonique Ulmer at
gulmer@communitychange.org,
(202) 339-9331.
Other health care
news:
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National Women’s
Law Center commissioned a poll that shows that 70 percent of voters support
the broad outlines of health care reform and requiring coverage of women’s
reproductive health services.
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Virginia Organizing
Project will demonstrate outside of Anthem headquarters and ask for a refund
of their health insurance premiums that went towards Anthem’s costly lobbying
activities against health care reform starting at 11 a.m. Friday,
July 24,
2009.
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Massachusetts
Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition continues fighting to keep funding
for coverage of immigrants in MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program.
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Nebraska Appleseed
Center for Law in the Public Interest released a report showing that racial
inequities in health care cause minorities in
Nebraska to have shorter lives and
suffer more chronic illnesses and disabilities.
Immigration Radar
What every immigration
reporter should know
New Labor in New
Jersey Working to
Give Immigrant Workers a Voice
New Labor in
New Jersey is teaching day
laborers English and how to pressure Congress to pass comprehensive immigration
reform. New Labor recently met with 50 day laborers and encouraged them to take
out their cell phones and text JUSTICE or JUSTICIA to the number 69866, signing
them up to receive action alerts or updates from the Reform
Immigration FOR America Campaign directly to their cell phones.
“Maybe they don’t have a vote,
(but) they have a voice — and they have to use it,” New Labor spokeswoman
Margarita Camacho Diaz told the Asbury Park Press.
Full Asbury Park Press article:
http://www.app.com/article/20090719/NEWS/907190342/1280/LOCAL04/Immigration+law+reform+is+sought
Other immigration news:
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Coalition for
Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles spoke up against
California’s budget, which
accelerates the erosion of the state’s safety net for vulnerable populations.
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New York
Immigration Coalition participated in a panel on the obstacles faced by
immigrant women.
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Organize communities to battle inequality (By Deepak
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Race-Colored Glasses: Seeing What's There (By Sally Kohn)
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Percent Is Enough (By Deepak
Bhargava)
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Leadership: Forging an Effective
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