From: "Pope, Karen O." <POPEKJ@uwec.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:38:58 -0600 Subject: FW: Media Advisory: Health Care Listening Session with Congressman Kind TODAY Wednesday Message-ID: <4F19260FE7477F4DA03B00B62E7F639076BE758B19@CHERRYPEPSI.uwec.edu>
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University of WI - Eau Claire
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cell 715 529 0272
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Subject: FW: Media Advisory: Health Care Listening Session with Congressman
Kind Wednesday
FYI - the press advisory that went out yesterday to all of the media in th
e Chippewa Valley.
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Press Advisory For:
Contact: Robert Kraig (Citizen Action of Wisconsin)
Wednesday February 18, 2009
(414) 322-5324
Health Care Listening Session with Congressman Kind Wednesday in Eau Claire
Over 100 participants to share personal health care stories and discuss
prospects for national health care reform with the Congressman
Eau Claire: Health Care for America Now (HCAN), an unprecedented coalition
of labor unions, community-based membership groups, women’s groups, docto
rs, nurses, and small businesses is sponsoring a listening session on healt
h care reform Wednesday in Eau Claire.
WHAT: Health Care for America Now listening session with Congress
man Ron Kind
WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Church, 621 S. Farwell St, Eau Claire
WHEN: Wednesday February 18, 4:30-6 PM.
Health Care for America Now is a $40 million campaign to win fundamental he
alth care reform this year at the national level. Citizen Action of Wiscon
sin is the lead HCAN organization in Wisconsin. Other organizations on Wis
consin’s HCAN steering committee currently include AFSCME, SEIU, Wisconsi
n Education Association Council (WEAC), Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, and WISDOM
(the state-wide affiliate of the Eau Claire faith-based organization JONAH
).
Additional members of the Wisconsin coalition include AFT-Wisconsin, Center
for Rural Affairs, Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, Coalition for Wisc
onsin Health, Community Advocates, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Grassroots
Citizens of Wisconsin, Grassroots North Shore, One Wisconsin Now, 9 to 5, N
ational Working Women’s Organization, UFCW, Wisconsin Alliance for Retire
d Americans, Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, Wisconsin Council of
Children and Families, Wisconsin Council of Churches, Wisconsin Farmers Uni
on, Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, Planned Parent
hood of Wisconsin; Voces de la Frontera; and Wisconsin Laborer’s District
Council.
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Robert Kraig
Director of Program
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
(414) 322-5324 (mobile)