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MONTHLY PROGRAM MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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Church, 19 West
Main Street,
Moorestown, NJ
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Meetings include speaker, refreshments, announcments and letter-writing
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Next
Meeting:
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Program
Topic/Speaker:
"Differences
in the Working Styles and Patterns of
Men and Women"
Kathleen
L. Pereles, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Thomas N. Bantivoglio Honors Program
Rowan University
Women
do have
different work styles or patterns than men and often the
differences would make the workplace more effective. What are the
differences? Which work style or pattern is most productive? How can we
learn to understand the differences and to use them to make our
workplaces
better?
Dr. Pereles has a Ph.D in Human Resources Administration from Temple
University, and an MBA in Manpower Policy from Widener University. She
has been at Rowan University since 2000, and a teacher since 1981. Her
research is in non-traditional workers and organizations (nonprofits,
volunteers), and the differences between full-time and contingent
workers.
She has also been an organizational development consultant for 25 years,
working with organizations in the areas of human resources, executive
training, strategic planning, mission and vision statements, team work
building, and organizational change planning.
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CO-PRESIDENTS'
COLUMN
"UPDATE ON SINGLE
PAYER HEALTHCARE!"
By Judy Buckman
After the chapters April
Program Meeting about the two versions of healthcare reform, we voted
unanimously to endorse HR676, the single payer option
(also known as Medicare for All). On Thursday, July 30, which was
Medicares 44th birthday, more than 1,000 single payer supporters
(including our own
Chapter Co-President Joy Booth) descended on Washington, DC to present
birthday cupcakes to their legislators and tell them the best kept
secret: that
single payer is the broadest, most effective, and cheapest way to
reform healthcare.
THE VERY NEXT DAY in a House subcommittee, Anthony Weiner, was trying
to get single payer inserted into the healthcare reform bill they were
working
on, when he was told by the committee chair, Henry Waxman, that Speaker
Nancy Pelosi had agreed to bring the single payer alternative to the
ENTIRE House
of Representatives to be discussed, debated and voted on! All because
the Single Payer rally and lobbying efforts had finally made the
necessary impact. This is
huge and unprecedented!
Only two months ago, Sen. Max Baucus and others were making statements
like single payer is off the table and would not be considered. The
fact that it is now
going to be brought for an up or down vote before the entire House of
Representatives is an accomplishment beyond anyones wildest dreams.
The news was so
stunning that Rep. Weiner asked Waxman to repeat it just to be sure he
heard correctly!
Thats the good news. The bad news is that newly-elected Congressman
John Adler, who when chapter members visited his office in May to lobby
him on single
payer, were told that while he heard us and appreciated our passion,
single payer was not going to happen this year. We were very
disappointed but felt sure
that our efforts would, at the very least, push him towards support of
the HCAN-version of healthcare reform including the public option.
Well, it turns out that
he might not even do that!!
Eve Weissman, a former chapter president who supports HCAN (the
alternative to single payer) recently told us that Adler is now
wavering on his support for
healthcare reform, including his support for a public option (let alone
single payer). He has indicated that he is worried about how reform
might impact small
businesses, whether it will save enough money in the long term, and
whether a public plan is really a good idea. Adler has also
called the reform healthcare
legislation the doorway to socialized medicine. Unbelievable.
Congressman Adler needs to hear from us, especially those of us who
supported him in the last election by voting for him, holding
fundraisers, making campaign
contributions, volunteering at campaign headquarters, helping to Get
Out the Vote, and by being a Democratic challenger at the polls on
Election Day. If you
contact his office, make sure to say that you did one of those things
and are now questioning whether or not you made the right decision.
Adler is clearly scared because
he is a freshman
Representative in a Republican district (he is the first Democrat to
hold this
seat in 128 years!) and because he is
being heavily targeted by the National Republican
Congressional Committee which is making robo-calls (taped phone
messages) and
taking out ads against him and
43 others who supported Obamas budget. But
thats not an excuse for Adlers current position. Many of us have
supported
John over the past 20 years because he
could always be
counted onto do the right thing whether or not it was
politically expedient (including helping us defend the Cherry Hill
Womens
Center by passing a
Freedom to Clinic Entrances bill in the Cherry Hill Town
Council). At one of the fundraisers we
held for him, he told a moving and compelling story about his fathers
death
from heart disease due to receiving inadequate healthcare, an
experience which
left teen-aged John and his mother nearly penniless. Where is that John
Adler
now?
He is missing in action but we need to get him back. Wed love to
support
him again the next election, but before we can do that, he needs to be
there
for us on this issue.
What can you do? Plenty!
Read the enclosed Report Card on why single payer is the best option
(prepared by Healthcare-Now! and Progressive Democrats). Also read The
Benefits of
Affordable Health Choices Act (prepared by the Energy and Commerce
Committee which created these one-pagers for every Congressional
District in the country!)
explaining how NJs Third District will benefit from the House bill.
Underline points on each one that you especially like, then get busy.
In a recent letter to his constituents, Adler said, Most importantly,
I am listening to my constituents every day.. If you need anything,
please do not hesitate
to contact me at john@adlerforcongress.com. Take him up on it! Write
and/or call John Adlers office [insert phone number] and tell him that
we want him
to vote for the Single Payer bill when it is voted on in the House of
Representatives in September after the summer break. Even if that
legislation gets only 150
votes and ends up just being symbolic victory (meaning that
theres no skin off anyones nose for voting yes), this represents a
broad base of support that
will bode well in the future as healthcare reform continues.
If youre in Congressman Rob Andrews First District, he is no better
than Adler on this issue! The two of them might as well be Blue Dog
Republicans (a group that,
it turns out, have recently gotten such large campaign contributions
from health insurance companies that theyre now receiving as much as
the Republicans! What a
coincidence that Blue Dogs are also now opposing healthcare reform!).
Write a similar letter to Andrews [address] or your own Congressperson.
If you dont
know who that is, need the address, or want the version of The
Benefits of Affordable Health Choices Act pertaining to your District,
please call the chapter
phone: 856-778-8320 (speak slowly and clearly; repeat your phone
number) or e-mail us at [e-mail address].
To combat all the swift boating that is going onpeople dont want
their healthcare rationed by the government (rationing has been going
on for
years, thats what health insurance companies need to do to stay in
business!), old people will be asked to end their lives (please!!),
single payer is
socialized medicine (it isnt, see July issue of the Equal Write),
they dont want the government making healthcare decisions
(personally, Id rather have
the government making decisions since, unlike insurance companies, the
government has no profit motive for making one decision over the other)
write a Letter
to the Editor of the Burlington County Times, the Courier Post and/or
the Philadelphia Inquirer [insert addresses]. You might want to mention
that, along with swift boating),
right wingers who oppose healthcare reform are also paying folks to
disrupt town meetings that will be happening during the summer break.
And, in addition to signs that say,
Government Health Care: Dangerous to Our Health and Welcome to the
US Socialist Republic those folks are also carrying anti-abortion
signs! Good grief.
If you belong to a union, take the sample resolution
(http://www.pefencon.info/HR676/Resolution.htm) to your local and get
it passed so your National union will
take it to the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on September 14-16. If
passed, unions could make arrangements for members to take a day off
and go to DC
later in September when healthcare reform is debated and voted
on.
Stay tuned! After our second Program Meeting on healthcare reform in
July, members said on the evaluation forms that they appreciated the
information we have
provided and want to continue learning about this issue that
(literally) affects all of us. More will be coming on healthcare
reform--it is one of the most important
civil rights issues of our time. Keep telling us what questions you
have and we will do our best to answer them.
More
information on single-payer health insurance and the healthcare reform
bill:
HR 676 & S 703 "Single Payer" Report
Card
(comparison to
proposed healthcare reform)
Single
Payer Report Card
Curent healthcare
reform bill HR3200
American
Affordable Healthchoices Act of 2009
Impact
Statements for HR3200 by the House of Representatives
ANNUAL
FEMINIST ESSAY CONTEST
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