| Tues. March 9 Protest at AHIP Conference in DC to Shut
Down Big Insurance Industry's Bid to Kill Health Reform
| Let's make Congress listen to us -- not insurance industry lobbyists! Reserve your seat on any of the buses from every part of Maryland* 10:30 am - Gather at Dupont Circle, Connecticut and 19th St. NW, DC
11 am - March to AHIP conference at Ritz Carlton Hotel, 22nd & M NW
Noon - Massive protest rally & "citizens' arrest" of AHIP at Ritz-Carlton
Tuesday March 9, thousands of activists will hit the streets in Washington, DC to protest big insurance and demand that Congress give America the health care reform we voted for. That's the day the health insurance lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), holds a national conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel to advance its agenda to kill health care reform.
We will be there to shut down their event and put the insurance companies and every corporate enemy of change on notice: We will not allow the big corporations and their lobbyists to bully Congress into inaction -- on health care or any of our issues.
*RSVP by noon Friday for a seat on any of these buses
(Free parking at all sites; box lunches will be provided; $10 donation requested
Departure times are firm -- come early so you don't miss it!)
Western Maryland bus:  7:00 am depart Cumberland (return by 6 pm)- 8:15 arrive/8:30 am depart Hagerstown (return by 4:30 pm)
- 9:00 arrive/9:15 depart Frederick (return by 4 pm)
Harford/Cecil County bus: - 8:45-9:00 am depart Aberdeen (return by 4:30 pm)
- 9:35 arrive/9:45 am depart east Baltimore (return by 3:30 pm)
Baltimore City bus #1: - 9:00 am depart from downtown (return by 3:30 pm)
Baltimore City bus #2 (continuation of Harford Co bus) - 9:35 arrive/9:45 depart east Baltimore (return by 3:30 pm)
Eastern Shore bus - 7:15 am: Salisbury (return by 5:45 pm)
- 8:00 arrive/8:15 depart Cambridge (return by 5pm)
- 8:45 arrive/9:00 depart Easton (return by 4pm)
Southern Maryland (details TBA)
Click now to RSVP/reserve your bus seat by noon Friday
Or email your name, location, email and phone to
Matthew(AT)ProgressiveMaryland.org (or just reply to this message)
and we'll contact you with all details and updates.
Every day that health care reform is delayed, the entire progressive agenda we voted for in the most historic election of our lives is more at risk. But if we beat big insurance on health care, we can put the corporations on the defensive and win on jobs, climate change, financial reform, worker rights, and much more.
Our dramatic action will send a clear message to Congress: Listen to everyday Americans, not the insurance lobbyists. We've had enough of insurance companies' denied claims, inflated profits and soaring premiums. We can't wait any longer. We need reform now.
This is a critical moment. President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have reaffirmed their commitment to pass reform and end the insurance industry stranglehold on health care. They have to do this now. At the same time, we have to expose the insurance lobby and their shameless opposition to reform. We have to show America that there are two sides in this fight -- and every fight that matters -- and the political leaders who side with the insurance companies are against us.
RSVP NOW, Print the Flier PDF,
More at ProgressiveMaryland.org or HealthCareforAmericaNow.org
Email matthew@progressivemaryland.org or call 301-495-7004/410-685-7004 x19 | 
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