KevinZeese is a leading peace and drug policy reform activist from Maryland who ran as the Green candidate for US Senate in 2006. This piece was published at Dissident Voice. Looking forward to 2010, Greens should think hard about how we can appeal to voters who are being turned off from the other parties. Monday, [...]
... insurance industry. Join their demand by clicking here to sign a petition to Sen. Lieberman . When KevinZeese, Esq. director of ProsperityAgenda.US met with our colleagues in the cell block, Morhbacker, a member of the Army Reserve in Connecticut, described his senator “as an example of the obstructionists who prevent consideration of Medicare for All.” Newkirk explains that “as...
Last night, on “Left Jab” on Sirius Left talk radio, the hosts interviewed activist lawyer KevinZeese. Zeese was at an action against the Chamber of Commerce sponsored by stopthechamber.com, but he has also been very active in the health care reform battle. He was one of the Baucus 8, the first 8 [...]
I assume that the tactic will happen here in the Chicago area shortly. As KevinZeese reports: Just a few weeks ago the Mobilization for Health Care for All was announced (www.MobilizeForHealthCare.org) . The Mobilization focuses on the denial of doctor-recommended care by the insurance industry. Sit-ins were planned at health insurance companies with demands that insurance corporations...
New York, NY When: 10am EST Where: United HealthGroup / 1 Penn Plaza 10119 Contact: Omar Kutty – omarkutty at hotmail dot com Washington, DC When: 10 am Where: Wellpoint / 655 15th St NW 20005 Contact: KevinZeese – kzeese at earthlink dot net Palm Beach, FL When: 11:30 am Where: Humana / 2056 Vista Pkwy 33411 Contact: Rick Ford – floridianshealth at aol dot com Boston,...
On October 8, seven demonstrators were arrested at the Chicago offices of Cigna Insurance. The protests are part of a series begun in New York last week and slated to spread to at least ten cities next week including Washington DC. “Single payer is inevitable; it’s going to happen,” said KevinZeese of Prosperity [...]
... at hotmail.com Washington, DC When: 10 am Where: Wellpoint / 655 15th St NW 20005 Contact: KevinZeese – kzeese at earthlink.net Palm Beach, FL When: 11:30 am Where: Humana / 2056 Vista Pkwy 33411 Contact: Rick Ford – floridianshealth at aol.com Boston, MA When: 12 noon Where: Cigna / 2223 Washington St 02462 Contact Ben Day – director at masscare.org Cleveland, OH When: 10 am Where:...
You want to know what you can do? Here are some ideas from an interview yesterday on Democracy Now!: SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Kevin, let’s start with you. What exactly are you launching today, this campaign of civil disobedience? KEVINZEESE: Well, it’s three groups that are launching it. ProsperityAgenda.us, which is trying to democratize a economy in [...]
You want to know what you can do? Here are some ideas from an interview yesterday on Democracy Now!: SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Kevin, let’s start with you. What exactly are you launching today, this campaign of civil disobedience? KEVINZEESE: Well, it’s three groups that are launching it. ProsperityAgenda.us , which is trying to democratize the economy in the way that...
... Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis, Oregon. We’re also joined here in the firehouse studio by KevinZeese who is the executive director of The Prosperity Agenda. He is helping to launch a national campaign of “Patients Not Profit” sit-ins at insurance company offices. There is a sit-in and a rally in front of Aetna headquarters in New York today. Guests: KevinZeese,...