(but if you do, I'll be there waving at ya!)

The Poor People's Economic Campaign has contacted our local single payer activist and invited us to be seen and heard at two G20 events:

1. Sunday, Sept. 20, 2:00 - 3:30 pm: Rally at Monumental Baptist Church (Soho and Wylie Streets, Hill District) with march to Freedom Corner--see here for details and flyer. This event is supported by the USW (steel workers) and UE (electrical workers), as well as other unions. Rev. Bruce Wright says that Cindy Sheehan will be one of the speakers. This is a permitted march. Also, a permitted tent city will be erected on the church grounds to highlight the needs of the homeless and unemployed.

2. Thursday evening, Sept. 24, Monumental Baptist Church: Focus on Housing and Healthcare:
6:00 PM Press Conference
6:30 PM Speak out/Testimony re: housing; healthcare
7:30 PM Showing of "Explicit Ills," a film set in inner city Philadelphia (IMDB synopsis here)

And on Friday we'll be at the People's March, organized by the Thomas Merton Center to focus on a number of issues, including economic justice (which includes healthcare). This is also a "permitted" march as follows:

Friday, Sept. 25, noon: Rally and march begins at Fifth Ave. and Craft Ave. in Oakland (with noon rally and feeder march at Freedom Corner, Hill District). March will proceed to Freedom Corner and go to City-County Building, downtown.

For anyone who wants to participate in any of these events and wants to borrow one of the Coalition's yellow and blue "HR 676 SINGLE PAYER" signs, please contact Sandy Fox at 412-527-9072 or Ed Cloonan at 412-461-9115 (or email Ed: edcloonan [at] gmail [dot] com) to make arrangements to pick up and return a sign. Sandy will be attending the Thursday night event at Monumental Baptist Church and Ed Cloonan will be at the Sunday 9/20 event at the church, as well as at the feeder march at Freedom Corner on 9/25; they will bring extra signs so people can look for them there, too, to get and carry a sign (or make your own, if you wish!)