Our regular MCPA meeting will be 7 PM Thursday September 3rd at
Saigonese Restaurant
1. Wave Signs to show support for healthcare reform 5 PM
The Four Corners of Georgia Ave & Colesville Rd in Silver Spring
very close to Silver Spring Metro, AFI Theater.
Bring a sign. More info. here:
http://www.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=98220
2. Tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy, Vigil for People Suffering Under Health
Care System 7:30 PM
Woodside Park, Georgia Ave & Spring St
Montgomery County Residents Hold Vigil as Tribute to Kennedy and for
People Suffering Under Current Health Care System with County Exec. Ike
Leggett, State Sen. Jamie Raskin
Event Demonstrates Dire Need for Public Health Option, Will Include a
Memorial to Senator Edward Kennedy
WHAT: Vigil to support a Public Health Insurance Option and Pay Tribute
to Sen. Edward Kennedy
WHO: Over 100 Montgomery County Residents
WHERE: Woodside Park, Georgia Ave. & Spring St., Silver Spring, MD 20910
WHEN: 7:30 pm, September 2nd, 2009
As Congress wraps up its August recess, on Wednesday, September 2nd
Montgomery County residents will hold a vigil at Woodside Park, Georgia
Ave and Spring St, to honor Senator Ted Kennedy and those who are
suffering under the current health care system and show that Maryland
cannot afford to wait for health care reform with a real public health
insurance option.
The vigils are organized by members of MoveOn.org Political Action,
along with the Center for Community Change, Democracy for America,
Doctors for America, Health Care for American Now, and TrueMajority.
Health care reform with a strong public health insurance option will
help lower skyrocketing health care costs and expand coverage to
millions of Americans. Nearly 300 vigils will be held nationwide on the
same day. The vigils will include a memorial to Senator Edward Kennedy,
who viewed fighting for universal health care as the "cause of his life."
After listening to moving words by Senator Kennedy, local residents will
share their personal stories of the failure of our current health care
system. Vigil participants will light candles and listen as names and
brief stories are read of Americans who are suffering under the current
health care system. This will be done to highlight the desperate need
for a REAL public health insurance option: Ready right away, part of a
plan to cover Everyone, Accountable to the public and Large enough to
contain costs.
County Executive Isiah Leggett will speak, as well as State Senator
Jamie Raskin. The invocation will be given by retired minister, Larry
Schmidt, who served as pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church on Georgia Ave.
for 22 years.
"We can't afford to wait. Every day Maryland residents are denied
life-saving medical treatment, dropped from their insurance coverage, or
buried under medical bills," said Mike Hersh, a local MoveOn member.
"We're calling on Congress to pass the health care reform we need as
soon as they return to Washington. The longer we wait, the more people
suffer."
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