Socialist Alternative

Zombies for Single Payer interviewed on MPR outside of the recent Obama rally in Minneapolis (for a couple of pics, check out the blog http://zombiesforsinglepayer.blogspot.com/):

‘While the Teamsters made their pitch with coffee, 24-year-old United Auto Workers union member Brett Hoven took a more graphic approach. Hoven wore a ripped white t-shirt painted to look bloody. He colored his face to look bruised and his nose dripped with fake blood.

“I’m literally dying for health care,” he joked.

Hoven has been laid off from his job at the St. Paul Ford plant. He’s a member of the Socialist Alternative. He says people are trying to use the word “socialism” to give the Obama plan a bad name.

“They say ’socialists’ like it’s pejorative,” he said. “But the fire department is socialized, education in this country is socialized.”

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/09/11/obama-target-center-minneapolis/

Over 22,000 people die every year for lack of health insurance. We are marching to be their voice. The U.S. for-profit medical system “rations” based on ability to pay, while costing more per capita for worse care than any other industrialized nation. The medical corporations are a powerful lobby and donate millions to both parties, snuffing out any hope for genuine change from Washington. Only a movement from below can win a free, universal, single-payer “Medicare for all” system like in Canada and Europe, allowing policy and medical decisions to be made based on human need, not corporate profits.

Thursday Sept. 24th
3:00 pm: Gather on Coffman Plaza
for speakers, music, zombie make-up and info tables

4:00 pm: March to Sen. Klobuchar’s office

4:30 pm: Community Rally for Single-Payer
Outside Klobuchar’s office: 1200 Washington Avenue South, Suite 250
Demand Congress put people before profits and pass single-payer

Rally at Klobuchar’s office called by MN Universal Health Care Action Network