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Health Care not Warfare Town Meeting

Past - Wednesday, September 23 2009 from 6 to 9 pm
Mount Horeb Community Center 107 N Grove St, Mount Horeb
WI Impeachment/Bring Our Troops Home Coalition, Veterans for Peace (VFP), Chapter 25, Madison Area Peace Coalition and SouthWest WI Area Progressives
Buzz Davis: 608-239-5354, David Wiiliams (carpool) 442-8399
     
 
Organizer and VFP member, Buzz Davis of Stoughton said, “After 8 years
of USwar in Afghanistan, 7 years in Iraq and the first Gulf war, what do we
have to show for it? Thousands of dead soldiers, a million of civilians dead,
millions more wounded, millions of families broken, devastated countries and
economies, an ever richer military industrial complex, more than a trillion
dollars additional national debt and no peace in sight.”

Forty seven million Americans are without health care with as estimated 50
million more underinsured. VFP member Steve Books of Mt. Horeb asked, “Why
is there never enough money for our own people and always enough money for
more war and torturing? The town meeting will explain and compare the
various single payer/Medicare for all health plans being discussed in
Congress and Wisconsin. We will review the costs of the illegal wars of
aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Israeli Palestinian conflict
and wars elsewhere along with the American torture programs.”

Steve White, a member of SWWAP stated that President Johnson proved in the
1960’s that we cannot simultaneously have guns and butter, i.e., both a war
in Vietnam and antipoverty programs here at home. White explained,
“President Obama is now stuck in the same situation with the addition of our
economy being in deep recession. The public demands a national health care
system and the wars drain off hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
This meeting will focus on what needs to be done to change this situation
for the better.”

Various speakers will make presentations followed by audience discussion and
a call to action.

 
     
Education | Teach In | WI | Dane County Submitted by barn3 on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 5:56pm.
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