Ocean State Action celebrates
2nd Annual Health Care Policy Heroes!
Please Join Us to Honor
State Representative Ray Sullivan,
SEIU 1199,
and Nancy St. Germain
Guest Speakers to include:
Margarida Jorge, National Field Director for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), formerly of SEIU, AFSCME,
and Missouri ProVote
Jeff Blum, Executive Director of USAction
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 6PM - 8PM
Local 121, Providence
Get your tickets here.
Tell Congress: Protect Consumers and Hold the Big Wall Street Banks Accountable!
Call Senator Jack Reed Toll Free TODAY at 1-866-544-7573.
Tell Senator Reed to support financial reform that holds big Wall Street Banks accountable.
Historic health reform has passed! The bill is a victory for the American people:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you’re sick, cap your benefits, sell you junk insurance, or raise rates with impunity.
- For the first time, Members of Congress will get their health insurance from the same system regular Americans do.
- Small business and working families will security and stability knowing they can afford good health insurance that meets their needs.
- 32 million uninsured Americans will get affordable coverage, saving over 30,000 lives per year.
Read an op-ed from a Rhode Island emergency physician explaining why we need reform.
Now write your own!
- Health Care Policy Heroes
- Flat Tax Repeal
- Finance Reform
- Health Care Reform
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Governor's tax comment draws protest |
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Written by Kate Bramson, Providence Journal
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Friday, October 31 2008 12:38 |
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PROVIDENCE - About 22 people outside the State House yesterday wielded signs opposed to repealing the state income tax and chanted "Fair is fair!" and "Enough is enough!"
"Governor: No more shifting taxes onto our backs!" read the large black type on one of the white signs.
Ocean State Action, an economic- and social-justice coalition of about 19 groups, organized the rally after Governor Carcieri said in an interview with WPRO radio talk show host John DePetro on Tuesday that he'd rather tax "consumption" than income. Carcieri said he would "love to find a way" to eliminate the state income tax.
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