[Mpls] Strike for Health Care

[David Shove]

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:21:47 -0600
From: Rhoda Gilman <rhodagilman at earthlink.net>
Subject: Strike for Health Care

From:  Rhoda Gilman, chair, Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition

The MUHCC supports Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 in its strike to
maintain the health care benefits of transit workers.  As health care
costs escalate and as strike after strike is called because employees are
asked to absorb those costs, the folly of treating the human right to
health care as a market-driven commodity tied to employment status and to
the concept of private insurance becomes more clear each day.

Two main actions are scheduled for the upcoming week.  We urge all
Minnesota Greens to support them:

* On Wednesday, April 7, there will be a one-day phone blitz to flood the
governor's office with calls, telling him to come to the table and settle
the transit strike immediately and to take steps toward solving
Minnesota's health care crisis with a universal and comprehensive
single-payer system. (Call 651-296-3391 or 1-800-657-3717)

* On Saturday, April 10, at 2 PM there will be a rally in front of the
Capitol.  All -- strikers -- workers -- everyone who wants universal
health care -- is urged to attend.

In addition, there will be picketing before the governor's mansion (Summit
Avenue between Oxford and Chatsworth) on Tuesday, April 6, at 6:30 PM.
It is being organized by Macalester College students.  The themes will be:
support the strikers, urge Pawlenty to settle, and solve the health care
crisis.  For more information on this, contact Jared Lodge,
<jlodge at macalester.edu> or 651-485-2915.



--fwd David Shove
Roseville