Zombies for Single-Payer vs. Billionaires for Wealthcare

We've received a report that Billionaires for Wealth-Care found out about our zombie march for single-payer health care and are now planning to show up to protest. We must be prepared to take them on, in addition to the politicians they fund. So I'd recommend you skip lunch. In the words of one Zombie for Single-Payer: "Come help us eat the CEOs and politicians. Because they deserve it."


*** Thursday, September 24th ***
ZOMBIES for SINGLE PAYER HEALTH-CARE
*** Face-off Vs. ***
BILLIONAIRES for WEALTH-CARE

*** Choose Sides and Come Join the Debate ***
(Zombie make-up provided; bring yer own billionaire outfits and signs)

THURSDAY, Sept. 24th

3:00 pm: Gather on Coffman Plaza, University of Minnesota
for political theater, zombie make-up, music, followed by a

4:00 pm March to Sen. Klobuchar’s office for a

Community Rally for Single Payer from 4:30pm to 6:00pm
outside Klobuchar’s office: 1200 Washington Avenue South, Suite 250

Demand Congress put people before profits and pass single-payer

PRESS RELEASE Excerpt:The health care debate is heating up fast. With tens of thousands of lives and billions in corporate profits at stake, two groups who previously operated in a more underground capacity are now surfacing to make their case to the public.

As one representative from "Zombies for Single Payer" explained: "A new study published in the Journal of Public Health last week estimated that 44,000 of us die each year for lack of health insurance. Without insurance, you're a dead-[person] walking. Our group has risen from the grave to have a voice in this debate, and to feast upon the insurance executives and politicians who refuse to support genuinely universal health coverage. Join us Thursday for a rally at the University of Minnesota and a march on the Senator's office."

Meanwhile, the insurance CEO's have announced a counter-demonstration. Head spokesperson for "Billionaire's for Wealth-Care" and CEO of Minnetonka based United Health, Stephen Hemsley stated: "We are very alarmed by reports of stirrings and anger from below. Health care should be for those who can pay, not a right for the unwashed mass mobs of the living dead. Its a free country, right? I mean, I wouldn't be the highest paid insurance CEO if we couldn't pick and choose only the healthiest people to sell coverage too, and let the sick, the pregnant, and the old to fend for themselves."

This Thursday the two groups are scheduled to face-off at the U of M in the battle for public opinion, and have called on their respective supporters to join them.

*** Zombie March called by Socialist Alternative - http://www.socialistminnesota.org/
more info at ZombiesForSinglePayer.blogspot.com
*** Rally at Klobuchar’s office called by MN Universal Health Care Action Network - http://www.uhcan-mn.org/