Wendall Potter Former Communications VP for CIGNA Testifies Before Congress, Againndall

Gotta Get Mad As Hell

Cooper wrote a post about a group of physicians “mad as hell”. They are traveling across country to try to meet with Obama, again, and get their voices heard. Check out the site. They left yesterday and may be stopping near you.

They have a site up and running here at Mad As Hell.

These guys tell it like it is.

There’s no nice way to say it. The financial cost of health care is killing our citizens, hobbling our economy, crushing small business, and threatening the solvency of our government. In the meantime, the Health Care Industry is spending almost two million dollars a day lobbying Congress and manipulating public opinion to accept “reform” legislation that leaves a vicious, for-profit system intact. The “public option” is a trap. We need real reform that finds immediate savings, controls costs, and accomplishes the moral imperative of true Universal Access. A Single Payer plan is the only real path to a Health Care System that is socially, ethically and fiscally responsible. And yet, our elected officials refuse to even discuss the possibility of a Single Payer plan!
If that doesn’t make you mad, we recommend checking your puls

Then you have these guys, the Republican AAPS, who want very much to prevent things like public option, set rates for services, and so on. In addition they support privatizing medicare.

First comes privatization of medicare, then education. The same way they privatized some prison systems, and made a financial killing for a few corporations. This is a Republicans wet dream people.

Right-wing group sponsoring Republican doctors rally supports privatizing Medicare.

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Street Soccer For Social Change: The U.S. Street Soccer Homeless Cup

Held in D.C. over the last week, Street Soccer U.S.A Cup, with a mission of soccer for social change.

With their 16-city league they aim to get homeless men, women, and youth off the streets, “scoring goals on the field, and achieving their goals in life.”

Since 2009, SSUSA is incubated under the HELP USA umbrellas of social services. In just a few years, SSUSA has grown from one program to a 16 city league of programs across the country from Los Angeles to New York. SSUSA reaches more than 20% of the chronically homeless in a given service area, and realizes a 75% success rate in effecting a positive life change such as addressing a substance abuse problem or mental health issue, securing full-time employment or moving off the street. The sense of belonging, mentorship, and structure that SSUSA programs provide can be the difference between people languishing on the street and successfully re-integrating into society. Each year SSUSA hosts the Street Soccer USA Cup, a major sports for social change event. The first took place in Charlotte 2006. This summer the event will be hosted in Washington, DC by the Ted Leonsis Foundation and the Washington Kastles.

Additionally, Street Soccer USA is the official partner of the Homeless World Cup and organizes the United States participation in the annual 48-nation Homeless World Cup.

SSUSA brought a team of homeless soccer players to the Homeless World Cup in Scotland (2005), South Africa (2006), Denmark (2007) and Melbourne (2008). SSUSA will bring a team to the Homeless World Cup in Milan, Italy in September 2009. SSUSA involved 1,000 people nationally in its programming. Of national team members, 28 of the 32 to date have moved off and stayed off the street since representing the country.

SSUSA continues to innovate and lead in the development of new solutions to poverty and homelessness through sports.

The U.S. World Cup brings 16 teams of homeless men and women from all over the country(Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montgomery County, New York, Richmond, Sacramento, San Francisco, St Louis, and Washington DC, together at Washington’s Kastles Stadium, in the center of downtown D.C., for three days of celebration, encouragement, and, of course, soccer.

The finals are occurring as I write this. Check their site later today to see how the tourney went down, or to donate to the organization.

Our National Team will be named today too. The Homeless World Cup to be held in September, in Milan, Italy.

Homeless World Cup

It’s My Party

Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday bash at Madison Square Garden.
Democracy Now piece.

The concert benefited Clearwater, which he founded in 1969. Clearwater is a 501(c)3 tax exempt nonprofit, member-supported corporation whose mission is to preserve and protect the Hudson River, its tributaries and related bodies of water. Clearwater conducts innovative environmental programs, advocacy and celebrations in order to inspire and energize the next generation of environmental leaders.