:HCR_Now @PElliottAP Support Health Care Reform ( #hcr ) march on Washington Sept 11- 13, 2009 PLEASE Re-Tweet! 1 tweet can change the world!" This tweet account has turned up the volume!

put up a twitter link!

What do we do on this wiki? This is all new to me.

I'm ready, willing and able to help!!

Something at Hospital Hill in Kansas City might get attention and be symbolic at the local level.

ShareThis link added, with capability to repost at Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.

Hi Mz Kleen! This "wiki" is editable by any user, including yourself, to organize our thoughts on the who/what/when/where. To edit a page, just click on the "Edit" tab at the top and start typing! There is standard word processing formatting available in the toolbar, and you can add links to sites. Pretty much everything about this site is editable by all of us. I'm just tired of diaries scrolling by and wanted a permanent place for us to organize collectively.

Good idea! I want to focus on a huge march on washington. Perhaps we could get a permit or whatever. All progressive blogs will promote it, as well as Keith and Rachel on MSNBC etc. Perhaps someone knows how to organize these events. Volunteers?

What about The march from Hospital Hill to Capitol Hill? With a small march in late August in KC to be a warm up for a much more massive march in DC in sept? We would need permits for both and have the marshalling point for DC at the Rockville,MD Metro Station where Amtrak also stops. Buses could park at the commuter garage and the march would have a more direct way to the mall while avoiding the congestion of DC traffic.

Thank you Suzanne!

That's a great idea Kirk. I'll pass the word around in my area for help.

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I turned notifications back on; can anyone edit the site besides me? I've had a couple people say they were having issues, but I'm not sure what's wrong. Please try to add or edit something and report back. If you want email notifications turned off, please visit your profile at http://my.pbworks.com/ to alter the frequency of emails per day. If you don't want to be part of this wiki I apologize for not realizing my invitations were actually automatically starting email notifications of changes to the site, and I will delete your access right away if you like.

I've just made some edits to the goals and slogans, seems to work fine!

I love your idea, but there are major problems that need to be quickly addressed if this effort is to bear some fruit. These are sort of basic organizing tips. For example, this is the second time I've come to this page and not seen instructions on How do I vote? Do I just write in a vote? I think you need to present more as though some work has already been done or folks will be too discouraged and turn away. It's absolutely OKAY to fake it in the beginning. Pack your vote counts - I only see under ten total votes! That would make the best of souls turn away in despair. Actually, what's happening is each person is putting in a new title and voting for their own. This is starting you off in a divisive mode already.
I recommend giving "how to vote" instructions on this page, also, how to contact YOU - right at the top. Also you should always be giving deadlines for when names will be chosen, routes taken, permits issued by the DC cops, getting buses, trains to cooperate (unions?) Time is Very Short! So open-ended questions aren't going to get to the concentrated focused actions you need to undertake this huge endeavor. Also, this needs to be publicized 24/7. An organizer needs to make a schedule of people who can publicize this march to 50 organizations a day and check in with them, find who they missed, etc. Are you up for this folks? (I am, because I'm sitting on the couch with a broken knee and zero health care waiting to see if charity will take me to surgery before it heals wrong....and I'm starting to get diabetes from sitting around, too, so health care is my mantra)

Even better I recommend simply choosing a name by yourself, as there is not enough time to both publicize this page and then organize - it has to be simultaneous. The name I recommend is: The March to Take Back American Health Care!

As for the date, I recommend sticking to Robert Reich's date, SEPTEMBER 13. There is a HUGE ANTI REFORM march on SEPTEMBER 12, so this will be the ANSWER to it. Besides, there's another big event happening one week earlier. Mr. Reich has been able to begin the publicity already in large-readership blogs, so build on it if possible. He can be emailed at his own blog - or call him at his Berkeley office or home.
Is there a way we can have a google list so we can also, at the same time, start organizing amongst ourselves in our regions:
Because of the SHORT TIME FRAME, please choose only organizers who are both SKILLED and COOPERATIVE, willing to have a conference call and divvy up individual tasks? (One divisive person can put a wrench into this, as so often happens in Dem movements, so be wary of uncooperative organizers.)
Most important for transportation: Can we get a large donor from the Democrats, perhaps the Costco owner, or the Progressive Insurance owner....for buses?
THANK YOU!!

Who is running this? Please put a contact person and instructions on how to use this. Not everyone who is a great organizer will understand how to use this. This is, at this point, a lot of people with ideas, but not yet a true organizing tool because of the short time frame and hard deadlines needed for success.

Hi plaidsportcoat, I will start re-organizing the wiki a bit and just take out the voting, and set forth the date of the march to be September 13th. I will make separate pages for each major city and have separate google maps and solicitations for team leaders. I think there are 4 'M's we need to concentrate on for this to be successful - organizing the March, designing the Messaging, alerting the Media, and gathering the Masses.

advice from european great grandmother:publish a contact list for leader(s) in every state capitol,and/or every big city for people like myself who would love to go to washington,but cannot afford to for lack of money and time .As for slogans,keep it simple and to the point ,as in MONEY and MORE MONEY!Use questions rather than statements;as in "why does insurance ind.spend $ 1.4M per day to stop insurance reform?"Don,t use "health care"and "insurance"together,they are not the same!Remember that only a few super rich evil geniuses are able to fire up the 23%s to act against their own interest:the golden rule!Call a lie a lie,not a falsehood;when using numbers add all zeros;100 million instead of 1B;don't use %,"they" don't understand that !Anyhow, I hope to have a leader here in Atlanta soon,so my family,friends and I have lots of company on sept.13.thanks! Rita King liberal (as in LIBERTY)

I want to get to DC and speak, but I may not be able to given the timeframe. However, I do live near enough to Seattle to take an organizational role there.

Hey everybody - there's a national organizing committee conference call tomorrow! Please join if you can. Sorry for the late notice. I will host these every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6:00PM PDT. The dial-in number and access code info are at http://healthcaremarch.pbworks.com/Thursday+8-27+%40+6%3A00PM+PDT

Thanks for contacting and inviting me to this wiki. A group of us in the Twin Cities are organizing a march for September 13. We should know all of the details by later this week.

Anyone on the ground in San Jose, CA or Sacramento, CA that want to organize a rally?

Hi Joe, yes there is interest in organizing in San Jose. I don't know about Sacramento, but "if we organize it, they will come!" Go ahead and start a Sacramento topic on the discussion board: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118144661546#/board.php?uid=118144661546

Hi Suzanne- can we get the link to Oakland posted?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/healthcareorganizingevent/gpkg2w
Thanks!
Jeremy

Jeremy, it's added to the new Oakland page, as well as a contact page for you. Check it out and edit as you like!