[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Meeting Next Tuesday August 2 11 a.m Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition

[Caroline Yacoub]

--- On Thu, 7/28/11, Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: Meeting Next Tuesday August 2 11 a.m Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition
To: "Lynn Huidekoper" <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 6:28 PM







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Santa Clara County Single-Payer Healthcare Coalition Meeting 



Tuesday, Aug. 2, 11AM-1PM
 




WHERE: 525 W. Alma The Low-Income Self-Help Center, San Jose

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=525+W.+Alma+Ave.,+San+Jose,+CA+95125&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=3_WISt_ZAYLAsgPn_fHcAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1

Parking lot is behind the Arco station. Best route at this time of day is 280 to Bird Ave. If you take 87 South it's a parking lot and will take you a long time. At the end of the meeting the route to 87 North is open with little traffic.

We are on the edge of Willow Glen right by Highway 87 overpass.   


 










                                                                                     Agenda

Your healthy snacks will be much appreciated as always. See you there!

1.  Update from State Strategy group, Campaign for a Healthy California- Greg, our new representative. (Please see Greg's letter below)  

2.  Discussion re: how we can get some more of the diverse community we live in to join our coalition, attend meetings and help push SB 810, California's excellent single payer bill, through the state legislature.
  
3.. Update on Family Resource Center - Katherine, Sandy and Joan

4. Valley Medical Center update Joan
 
5. Neighborhood Assn. contacts- Lynn

6.  Outreach events - any on the horizon, any to report back on? Tabling possibilities at Farmer's Markets

7. The Low-income Self-Help Center Community for Change will be holding a Forum and Speak-out, "Fighting for our Lives," about the cuts past and proposed to Medicare, Medical, Healthy families, local clinics, VMC and Social Security on Sunday, September 11 at our regular meeting time, 3 to 5 p.m. You are all invited! 

 
Remember, "Medicare is the Solution not the problem."




Dear single payer activists,

The effort to pass SB 810 has taken an important step forward through the formation of a statewide coalition, the Campaign for a Healthy California, consisting of pro-single payer organizations from around the state.  The Campaign's purpose is to organize the movement more effectively, through the inclusion of target constituencies, the formation of regional coalitions, improvement of media and educational work, and better coordination of strategy and tactics.

The Campaign is being formed because the single payer forces see that our efforts must be ramped up in order to create the political environment and the movement to get our legislation enacted.

Project Coordinator for the Campaign, Cindy Young(formerly with California School Employees Association, now with California Nurses Association), attended the July 7 meeting of the Santa Clara County Single Payer Healthcare Coalition to lay out the new plan and to learn about our work.  Our countywide coalition, organizing educational events, legislative visits, and mobilizations for the last five years, readily fits into the framework of the Campaign as one of the regional coalitions.  I volunteered to serve as a regional coordinator, to communicate between our Coalition and the Campaign's state steering committee.  

On a conference call of regional coordinators, on July 14, we learned that a statewide events calendar has been set up, to be followed soon by a website.  We also plan kickoff events for the Campaign in all regions this fall, to involve new folks, raise money, and build for next year's big push.

At our next local Coalition meeting, on Tuesday, August 2, 11am, at the Low Income Self-Help Center, 525 West Alma St., San Jose, we will start to plan our contribution to the Campaign for a Healthy California in the months ahead.  Please attend and/or get involved in any way you can.  With all the attacks on the well-being of ordinary working people, we need single payer now more than ever!

Greg Miller RN
Regional Coordinator for Santa Clara County
Campaign for a Healthy California
phone:(408)254-3311 



Katherine Bock
The Low-Income Self-Help Center
525 W. Alma
San José, CA 95125
(408) 599-4590 cell
phone (408) 977-1275 / fax (408) 977-1650
Co chair Santa Clara County Single Payer Health Care Coalition

 
 
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