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Video: “Baltimore Four” Arrested—Health Care for All
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 29 October 20092 comments
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On Oct. 29, 2009, four activists, who support a Medicare for All solution to our healthcare crisis, were arrested in Baltimore, MD, for trespassing. They were engaged in a “patients before profits sit-in” at a 17-story tower, which houses an office of the insurance giant, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. It’s located in the Canton area of the city. The demonstration was part of an ongoing national campaign by the “Mobilization for Health Care for All” group. The protest included the staging of a 15 ft. vampire, “Count Bleed Ya Dry,” that represented the Insurance Industry. For more more details on the Single Payer issue, the arrests and the exact charges placed against each defendant, check out: http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/ One of the protesters arrested was Dr. Margaret Flowers. She is a member of the “Baucus Eight,” and an unrepentant advocate of a Single Payer System. See: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=liamh2#p/search/0/ncb58qnDyxs Another physician, Dr. Eric Naumburg, was also arrested, along with an 81 year-old retiree, Mr. Charles Laubert, and a school teacher, Ms. Patty Courtney.
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30 October 2009, 03:54, by alan
Governments are terrified of any direct action. Once a certain proportion of the population are on the streets, laws mean nothing.
Unfortunatly many people seem hypnotised, and there are so many agent provocateurs involved in all sorts of groups.
It will all explode one day and there will be no winners.
18 November 2009, 07:01, by Bill C
Two health care activists were arrested in Houston today, at a demonstration outside the Cigna headquarters there. They wanted to talk with Cigna executives about their concerns and declined to leave the sidewalk in front of the building until they could talk with them. Police carted them away.
See the article and pictures at http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2009/11/69179 and http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2009/11/69184.php