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VIDEOS: 911 Rescue Workers Need Health Care

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Yesterday in the rain in front of the U.S. Capitol hundreds of 911 rescue workers who risked their lives in a toxic mess they were told was safe piled off buses from New York.  They held a rally with a handful of Congress Members and asked Congress to get them health care so that they can stop suffering every day while we slaughter people abroad in their names and in the name of those who died that day.  

I shot a video and have broken it into six pieces and posted them on Youtube.  The first features Rep. Tim Bishop, the second Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the third Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the fourth a young woman singing "God Bless America," the fifth Rep. Jerrold Nader, and the sixth some of the rescue workers speaking.

Here are the videos:

 

David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories Press and of the introduction to "The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. (more...)
 

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Re: VIDEOS: 911 Rescue Workers Need Health Care

Thank you Mr. Swanson.

The link to the videos and God bless these 911 Rescue Workers who are in dire need of health care. You would think they were living in some third world country! This is suppose to be America. These people put their lives on the line and this is how they're treated? Shame! Utter f'n shame!

http://www.youtube.com/afterdowningstreet

by Munich (1 articles, 86 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 1125 comments [86 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:14:39 PM

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The Neocons Don't Give a Flying Duck

The people that pull the strings in our government don't give a damn about

people, just control,domination, and money. They turned their backs on the 911 workers just like the do on the returning soldiers from Iraq. Lies ,lies , lies, all lies.

by Bob Gormley (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 1094 comments [65 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:08:43 PM

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IT CERTAINLY ISN'T CHRISTIAN, RIGHT?!

The Police take care of their own, the Fire Fighters take care of their own, the Marines (and other branches) take care of their own...by doing the right thing (empathetic humanitarian policy), with honor and duty and integrity.

Congress takes care of their own (with Salary raises and gratuities), and above that at the top of the food chain?  Cronyism, no bid contracts?  Sent a Billion in Cash on pallets to Iraq?  Rummy can't account for 2.3 Trillion? 

You know this drill...does anyone really have to send a memo, take a vote, parse about it?  Write the check and do the Right thing.  Start a Trend!

by boomerang (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 557 comments [215 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:12:53 PM

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The tragedy goes on

9/11 keeps on racking up victims. I have a part-time neighbor who had two offspring who worked in the WTC. Both escaped that day. One had jury duty and was terribly traumatized as all his coworkers died. The other was caught in that cloud of dust. In her thirties, she died in her mother's arms less than five months later of heart failure. How many others have died? How many are ill? Who knows? Who is counting? There has been less effort to get a count than has been done to learn how many innocent Iraqis have died. We need universal single payer health care for all.

by Pat Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 84 comments) on Thursday, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:07:34 AM

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