"The next revolution will not be by 63 yr. old fat white men & women... you are looking at the next revolution's citizens. They'll be young and aware." - comment on Democratic Underground.
A generation of Americans is being raised with access to the internet and are steering clear of the corporate media bullshit and seeking out the truth.
Allow me to introduce you to one of them -- Justin Jones, age 16. He is a Video Blogger. He posts rants on the video sharing service YouTube to share with friends.
Justin's lives with his grandmother, a cancer survivor with a mountain of unpaid medical bills from the treatement that saved her life. She's now self-rationing the medical care she receives for her early stage liver failure because she has no health insurance, and is years from Medicare eligibility.
Naturally, Justin has a lot to say about healthcare reform - calling out obstructionist Republicans, crazy teabaggers, and even "sellout" Obama for standing in the way of the passage of healthcare reform, even modest incremental reform like giving people the option of buying into a publicly run insurance plan.
Unfortunately, Justin doesn't seem to be aware of the Medicare for All solution. This points out a need for the movement to do more outreach on the internet, on sites like YouTube and other sources of progressive news.
Justin laments: "This one hits home. My 62 year old grandmother has not a drop of health-care insurance... If we sold this house and all of our land..if we sold all of it we would still not have enough to pay for all the health-care expenses we've compiled in the past three years."
Monday, Feb 8th, 5:20 PM Gather Northwest corner of 40th St. and 8th Ave., NYC
Following up on our successful Grand Central actions in November and December we're moving to Port Authority where we'll march inside spreading the message - Yes Obama, there is a better way -- Medicare for All.
If you get to the gathering place after 5:20 and the group has gone inside already, just wait in the main hall of the south building (40th & 8th) until you see a crowd with single-payer signs and shirts. The group will be doing repeated loops inside the buildings, so don't worry if you don't see us right the way, we'll loop back.
Download Announcement Flyer to post and distribute. Download Action Flyer if you can print them and bring them with you the day of the action to distribute.
ACS Healthcare Debate February 11th, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, reception to follow. Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th Street (Off Amsterdam Avenue), NYC Jim Dean (Democracy for America), Jonathan Tassini, and some right wingers from the Manhattan Institute and American Enterprise Institute will debate Healthcare reform. We'd like a lot of single payer supporters in the room obviously. Click here for full details.
Upcoming PHIMG General Meetings Sunday Mar. 7th, 1pm. Sunday Apr. 11th, 1pm. Location for all three: 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, NYC. As always our monthly meetings are open to the public. Bring a friend!
Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, answers the question : Why did swing voters abandon the Democratic Party in Massachusetts?
"The only thing Democrats can be counted on doing after being elected is demotivating their base."
"Democrats strategy - Fake Left, Move Right."
If you are a Democrat, declare yourself a Medicare for All Democrat and declare your intention to only support candidates for office that will forcefully fight for Medicare for All.
Medicare for All supporters respond to Obamas SOTU call for "Better Ideas"
Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:55
In this video recorded by Single Payer Action, Dr. Margaret Flowers (Congressional Fellow, PNHP) attempts to deliver to the White House a packet of information on Medicare For All in response to Obamas State of the Union address.
Dr. Flowers was turned away on Anthrax/Security fears.
Undeterred, "Dr. Flowers joined colleague Dr. Carol Paris to try again to get their message to President Obama, but this time by going to the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, where the president was meeting with House Republicans, with a large banner reading, "Letting you know: Medicare for all."
Because they wouldn't leave the hotel sidewalk and refused to have their message marginalized again, they were both arrested. The two physicians were briefly taken into custody by law enforcement officials, issued a citation and then released. "
Who are we? Why are we here? PHIMG (pronounced P-H-I-M-G) is a coalition of NYC-based activists working for REAL health care reform. PHIMG was formed to shine a spotlight on the underlying cause of our health care crisis: private insurers. Private insurer middlemen needlessly add cost and complexity, ration care based on profit goals, impede the practice of medicine, and block real reform. Only by directly confronting big insurance can we solve the health care crisis. The solution is to eliminate PHIs by improving and expanding Medicare to cover all residents of the USA, as proposed in HR 676.
Join PHIMG - attend one of our upcoming local events in New York City. If you are not in New York City start a group like PHIMG in your neck of the woods. The best way to learn about PHIMG's history is to watch the videos we have produced of our past actions, which you can find below.
(TIP: Click on a video to start it, and then click again, the video will play in a larger size.)
Gather Northwest corner of 40th St. and 8th Ave., NYC