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Got a sad health care story? How would you like to be on Television?

Joseph Raglione
August 08, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, do you have a good health care story to share with the World? Now is your chance...>

Joseph -

Last night, Mike Snider was on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Mike's the local restaurant owner in Nebraska whose personal story is featured in our rapid response ad pressuring Senator Ben Nelson to support a public healthcare option. When they called Mike and asked if he would be on the show, at first he wasn't sure.

Mike's just a regular guy, not a political spokesperson. But here's what he decided:

"After all the love and support I've gotten -- I just can't be afraid now. Doesn't matter how much they throw at me, this is something I've got to do. I was scared at first, but this isn't about me anymore. It's about the next generation and the generation after that. It's not for me; it's for my kids and my kids' kids."

Our rapid response ads, with our partners at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, are a warning shot to any member of Congress who might stand against the American people. We must be ready to turn up the heat on any Senator at any time in all 50 states.

That's why we need you. Do you have a compelling healthcare story? Would you like to be featured in a T.V. ad in your state?

SHARE YOUR STORY AND SIGN UP TO BE IN THE NEXT RAPID RESPONSE AD

The pressure is working. Senators are paying attention and feeling the heat. Within hours of announcing the ads in Nebraska, not only did Senator Nelson issue a defensive statement, he called Mike Snider personally to "discuss" his position. You'll be able to hear what happened on the call when you see the clip of Mike on The Rachel Maddow Show at the link above.


While you're there, we make it easy to share your story and sign up to be considered for a rapid response ad in your state.

CHECK OUT THE CLIP AND SHARE YOUR HEALTHCARE STORY NOW

We are continuing to support the President and Democrats in Congress who are fighting for a strong public healthcare option -- Democratic Senators like Chris Dodd and Jeff Merkley and Representatives like Maxine Waters and Raul Grijalva.

But we won't let up our pressure on those in Congress who are roadblocks to real reform. Every member of congress needs to get the message: If you stand against the American people, you will stand alone for reelection.

Sign up to speak out today.

Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Political Director

Democracy for America

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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