Health Care Rally Saturday April 18

RALLY FOR REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM

When: April 18, 2009, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: St. Augustine College
1345 W. Argyle St. Chicago, 60640
(Just Northeast of Clark St. and Lawrence Ave. / Argyle Redline stop)

Join U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Representative Danny Davis, and HCAN As We Call For Quality, Affordable Health Care We Can All Count On In 2009. (pdf flyer for the rally)

Get on the Bus for the Rally

There are buses to take people from the suburbs to the rally. The bus for the northwest suburbs has the following schedule on the morning of April 18:

9:30 a.m. pickup:
Countryside Unitarian Church, 1025 Smith Road, Palatine

9:45a.m pickup:
St. John’s UCC, 304 N Evergreen Ave, Arlington Heights

The rally ends at 1 p.m. and the bus will bring us back right after that. Please let us know if you'll be on the bus and how many friends and family members you'll bring; RSVP hal@citizenstruth.info.

For more information including times for all the buses, see the event page at HCAN Illinois.

Thanks to everyone who contributed time and effort to make the March 28 Health Care Summit a success. We'll be posting information from the summit here shortly.

Health Care Summit

Saturday, March 28 2009 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist
1025 N. Smith Street, Palatine, IL 60067

I'm confident that this is the year where we can get health care done. We're just going to have to really work hard to do it.

- President Barack Obama, March 19, 2009 (audio).

The fight for quality and accessible health care has been going on for over one hundred years. This year is the most promising time for change in our country's history. Over 30 million people, thousands of small businesses, and community members are working together to make 2009 the year America corrects this injustice.

- John Gaudette, State Director for Health Care for America Now

If 2009 is the year for health care reform, we need to make sure it serves our families first. Find out how you can have a voice in the process.

Affordable health care is becoming a thing of the past, between a deepening economic recession and rising costs of coverage. At the same time, health care reform is all over the news. In Washington, D.C., health care reform is at the top of the agenda. What is the status of the proposals under review? How do we make sure that we influence the process?

About the Health Care Summit

Agenda - Program Details here:

1:00 Welcome
1:15 Tutorials and Panel Discussion
2:15 Break
2:30 Concurrent Sessions & Open Space
3:30 Proposals and Next Steps
4:00 Adjourn

Related sites:

[click here for January 17, 2009 Money Summit information]

Organizers of A Better Day support The Forum Organizing Project:

Forum Organizing ProjectThe Forum Organizing Project supports relocalization and community building by supporting community forums around the country. We are a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, On the Commons, and supported by the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program.

Website: ForumOrganizing.org.