Health Care ’09 Information

Health Care for America Now, the largest health care campaign in the country, will have a large scale rally and lobby day on June 25th in Washington, DC.

The Health Care ’09 rally will take place at 11:30am in Upper Senate Park (map) and following there will be lobby activities in various locations. Click here for more information about the schedule.

How do I get involved?

There is a bus departing 17th & JFK in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 25 at 7am.  If you’re interested in attending this rally please visit:  http://www.healthcare09.org/

The schedule once in DC is as follows:

11:00am                    Buses arrive and crowd starts to assemble for Rally

11:30am-12:30pm     Rally on the Mall

1:30 pm-4:00pm        Lobby Visits & Town Hall Meetings

-PA State Town Halls for 800 people near the Capitol. Senator Specter, Representative Sestak and other members of Congress are expected to attend

-Issue Town Halls (Small business, Doctors/Nurses, Equities)

-Small Group Lobby Visits for members of the PA delegation to see members of Congress who cannot come to the town hall.

4:30pm-5:30pm          Debrief & Report Back

6pm                             Buses Leave

If you plan to attend this exciting event, please contact Christiane by visiting this page.  She is planning to attend this rally.

On June 26th, the Temple University Comprehensive HIV Program is organizing an HIV Testing Day at the Student Faculty Center, 1st Floor, 3340 N. Broad Street. They need OFA volunteers to pass out fliers at 2 Subway stops to encourage folks to get tested.

Join our OFA team leaders either at the Allegheny or the Erie subway stops on the Broad St line, from 8:30 to 9:30 AM.

Please RSVP @ http://bit.ly/v1qQd

HIV/AIDS is still a serious health concern for every one of us: On this OFA National Day of Service join our team and participate in “National HIV Testing Day”!

OFA volunteers will be asked, as a team, to circulate information about HIV/AIDS and testing in the neighborhood of several testing locations:

- 18th St and Lehigh Avenue (10A-1P)
- Philly AIDS Thrift at 5th/Bainbridge (2-5P)
- Passyunk and Morris in South Philly (6-9P)
- Washington West Project at 1201 Locust (9A-9P).

To view locations on a map: http://bit.ly/efWGD

Volunteers who wish to participate are strongly encouraged to attend a 1/2 hr info and training session on either Tuesday June 23d or Wednesday June 24th at the Mazzoni Center 1201 Chestnut St (3rd Floor) at 5:30PM.  The training will cover important HIV Outreach Protocol information and will give an orientation to the information packets we will help circulate.  We may also have an opportunity to help assemble some of these packets while we are there.  (If you are unable to attend a training, sign up anyway and arrive 1/2 hr earlier at the testing location of your choice to receive material and brief orientation.)

Because HIV outreach crosses party lines, we have been asked to be non-partisan on the 27th. So please wear a bright T-shirt without political logos and bring a canvas bag (or similar) to carry your materials.

This event is a collaboration with the Mazzoni Center – http://www.mazzonicenter.org

For more information and to RSVP, please visit http://bit.ly/45ceNo (When you sign up for this event, please indicate in the message box the testing location(s) and the training day of your choice.)