<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI. I am getting a barrage of emails re health care rally; it's my area of expertise, so I won't assume that you all are getting these as well. I'm forwarding the notice I received from one of our Green members, Cathy Deppe.<DIV>Note the plans they have to be very *visible* and to reach out to latinos.</DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Andrea</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Andrea Dorey</DIV><DIV>Santa Clara County Green Party</DIV><DIV>408-306-1900 (cell)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Serving the powerful is like sleeping with a tiger."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"It is difficult to get off a tiger's back."</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:cdeppe@9to5bayarea.org">cdeppe@9to5bayarea.org</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><B>THURSDAY HEALTH CARE RALLY SAN JOSE</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000">OCTOBER 26 - EVERYBODY IN, NOBODY OUT!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9to5 is marching behind a red and black 9to5 banner - please look for us and join in. We have new flyers, English/Spanish, to distribute and need your help.</DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000">We hope you are already planning to participate in the large downtown San Jose "March and Rally for Health Care Now!" this Thursday, October 26. This event is part of the One Care Now campaign to establish a single payer universal health care system in California.<FONT size="-1"> </FONT> There are four parts to the San Jose activity - you may participate in any or all that work with your schedule. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR> </FONT></DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"></FONT> <DIV><FONT color="#000000">Along with housing, health care is one of the fundamental human needs. More than 7.5 million Californians do not have adequate health care coverage. Every year some 18,000 Americans die from lack of health care.<FONT size="-1"> </FONT> We will be remembering them with a silent vigil at the end of the rally this Thursday.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000">Universal single payer health care is something we must win. SB 840 will be reintroduced next year. It was not killed by the governor's veto in September. But the legislature will not act without public support. The time has come to get involved, to unite, and to educate ourselves about these issues and how to win.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B>DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26</B></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B>3 PM RALLY AT THE STATE BUILDING</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B> (100 Paseo de San Antonio between 2nd and 3rd, north of San Carlos - next to the SJ Rep)</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B>4:15 PM MARCH TO CITY HALL (5 blocks)</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B>4:45 - 5:15 PM RALLY ON THE STEPS OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"> </FONT><FONT color="#000000"><B>(80 South 5th Street - north from San Fernando)</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000"><B>5:30 - 7:00 PM CLOSING RALLY AT THE STATE BUILDING</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#000000" size="-1"><BR></FONT></DIV><BR><BR><BR>9to5 Bay Area<BR>National Association of Working Women<BR>2302 Zanker Road<BR>San Jose, CA 95131<BR>408-432-6044</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>