Last month, we asked that you help fund a new non-profit organization - Single Payer Action - to focus this citizen energy, break through the corporate logjam in Washington and make single payer a reality.
You came through with flying colors — and blew past our initial fundraising goal.
The foundation was set for action.
Out of the blocks, Single Payer Action led a stand up protest before Senator Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee.
Thirteen doctors, nurses, lawyers and other single payer advocates were summarily arrested and charged with “disruption of Congress.”
(Baucus later told single payer advocates that he regretted not inviting them to testify before his committee.)
The arrests of the Baucus 13, their upcoming trial, and other similar single payer actions around the country have galvanized a nationwide movement.
Single Payer Action now wants to supercharge the grassroots movement for single payer.
Confront members of Congress back home all around the country.
And lay the groundwork for a national citizen’s organization that will refuse to compromise with corporate power — inside the beltway and out.
Many progressives are now confused.
They took Obama at his word.
They thought once Obama was elected President, he would do the right thing.
My colleague, Theresa Amato, is not confused.
She saw clearly through the Democratic Party’s duplicity and shenanigans — and has written a new book, titled Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two Party Tyranny (New Press, June 2009)
The book documents how the corporate two-party system thwarts citizen activism and blocks challenging candidates in the electoral system and beyond.
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