SiCKO-Cure Road Show Makes Sixteenth Stop in Asheville
ASHEVILLE, NC – Healthcare-NOW kicked off its first SiCKO-Cure Road Show campaign to support guaranteed national health insurance for every American on Sunday night, Nov. 11, 2007 from the National Healthcare-NOW Strategy Conference in Chicago. Since then, the road show has passed through sixteen targeted Congressional Districts during its first three-and-a-half weeks on the road, and will cover six more in the southeastern US over the next ten days.
The SiCKO-Cure Road
Show™'s sixteenth stop is Asheville, NC, hosted by WNC Central Labor
Council, Just Economics, and WNC Community Health Services. The events
scheduled during the road show’s visit to Asheville include the
following.
• Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 4-5:30 PM. The SiCKO Cure Road Show bus
will arrive at the City County Plaza in downtown Asheville to meet and
greet local supports, and the public
• Wednesday, December 5, 6-9 PM Free SiCKO showing at WNC Community
Health Services, 312 Haywood Road. Doors open 6 PM for discussion &
refreshments; movie showing at 7 PM.
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 10 AM Community Press Conference; 312 Haywood Rd.
Health care workers, patients and union reps explain why we need
guaranteed, single-payer national health insurance.
Members of the Road Show team include Liv Boykins of Detroit, MI who is
a special assistant to Congressman John Conyers, Jr. who introduced HR
676, and has been an unwavering advocate for national health insurance.
Elyse Seigle, from Washington DC, is a Legislative Education Staff
Member of Healthcare-NOW! Larry Smith and his wife were part of one of
the stories documented in Michael Moore’s film, SiCKO. Joe Friendly,
a videographer from New York, NY is documenting the trip, and Bill Hill
from Pittsburgh, PA drives the bus.
The road show will be coming to Asheville after joining the World AIDS
Day rally and vigil at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta on
Saturday, and a first-time showing of a new DVD HR 676: The Single
Payer Solution, at Paine College in Augusta on Sunday, and a powerful
show of support in front of the State House in Columbia, SC on Monday,
Dec.3. After the events in Asheville, the road show will leave Thursday
for the next round of events in Greensboro and the Triangle area in
central North Carolina.
The Healthcare-NOW Road Show receives support from the Leadership
Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, which includes the organizations
Healthcare-NOW!, Physicians for a National Health Plan, Progressive
Democrats of America, the California Nurses Association, and the
National Nurses Organizing Committee.
