IF CORPORATIONS WIN, CONSUMERS LOSE!
1,400 Lobbyists will be flooding Seattle during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Conference in mid-August. Their goal is to water down the recommendations state insurance commissioners will be making to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the implementation of the new health care law. If they succeed consumers will not have the affordable, accessible health care they fought so hard for. Corporations and their army of lobbyists put their profits before people and win over and over and over in their battle to take as much as they can from the consumers. Whether you have lost a job, health insurance, a pension, your home, or your way of life due to an environmental disaster like that in the gulf, everyone can point to the root cause – unchecked corporate power. Leading up to, and after the NAIC Conference, activists will confront corporate power and clean up lobbyists grime at a series of actions and media events. Will you join us? Hold corporations accountable! Protect consumers, NOT big corporations.
August 18th – Move Your Money Bank Action
Location: Meet at Seattle Central Library, 5th and Madison
Time: 11:15am
Description: Big out-of-state banks like Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo are using the money in our accounts to kill legislation that would better our communities – including a renewal of a $67 million tax break for themselves. WCAN and allies will demand that these big Wall Street banks pay the $67 million in taxes they owe to WA State or lose hundreds of individual and organizational bank customers who will move their money. Take the pledge and move your money.
Success! August 6th – Home Foreclosure Action
Location: Pierce County Courthouse
Time: 10am
Description: All across the nation, families and individuals are losing their homes thanks to the reckless and profit-driven practices of companies like Goldman Sachs. This event will call attention to the $56 billion bailout that Goldman Sachs received from taxpayers and contrast that with the little help owners are getting to stay in their homes.
Success! August 7th – Home Foreclosure and Bank Accountability Action
Location: Bank of America (1602 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA 98210)
Time: 10am
Description: Activists and community leaders will call on elected officials, particularly Everett
Senator Jean Berkey, to hold Wall Street banks and corporate special interests accountable for their actions and highlight the devastation caused by the big banks due to their negligence.
Success! August 10th – Good Jobs and Responsible Development Rally
Location: Tacoma Downtown Marriott (Tollefson Plaza, south of 17th St btw Pacific & Commerce) Time: 12pm
Description: Demonstrators will call on Marriott to fulfill their promise to Tacoma to provide living wage jobs in exchange for permission from the city to build a hotel on prime downtown ocean front property and for significant tax breaks from the city. Economic growth should benefit everyone and not create slave wage jobs!
Success! August 10th – Stand for Democracy Party & Picnic
Location: Cal Anderson Park, Seattle, WA
Time: 5pm
Description: Join Move-On as they kick-off their Stand For Democracy campaign to reclaim our democracy from corporations. Listen to live bands and political speeches and learn more by going to www.standfordemocracy.org
Success! August 14th – NAIC Conference Confrontation
Location: WA State Convention Center, Seattle, WA; We will meet at the Cheesecake Factory at 7th and Pike, St.
Time: 9:45am
Description: We will confront the 1,400 lobbyists and CEO's from the insurance industry as they descend on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners national convention in order to trick state insurance commissioners into watering down the new health care law. We won’t let that happen and will be there to disinfect commissioners, sanitize the convention from the dirty lobbyist tricks and urge insurance commissioners to support health insurance regulations that provide stringent oversight over the insurance industry that benefits consumers NOT corporate profits.
Success! August 16th – Social Security 75th Birthday
Location: Greenwood Sr. Center, 525 N. 85th St. Seattle, WA
Time: 1:30pm
Description: This event will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Social Security. Senator Patty Murray will attend and address the audience about the importance of Social Security and the importance of preserving it for future generations.