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/