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Public Employee Press
Political Action 2010
DC Rally helps win health care bill
About 80 DC 37 activists joined thousands at AFSCMEs
mass citizens arrest demonstration in Washington March
9 that targeted health insurance executives who tried to defeat the health
care reform legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law March
23.
Were here to arrest the CEOs of Big Insurance because they
have been devastating our families and businesses and getting away with
it, said AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee.
AFSCME, DC 37s parent union, organized the protest for Health Care
for America Now (HCAN), the 30-million-member national grassroots campaign
for quality, affordable health care for all. Activists surrounded the
Ritz-Carlton hotel, where the health insurance lobbying group held its
annual policy conference.
The insurance companies and their cronies in Congress did everything
they could to prevent reform, said Jackie Rowe-Adams, president
of Local 299, but Congress stood with us for real change.
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