Newark Rally
Posted on February 20th, 2010 by Antoinette KrausVideo of the event, part 1:
Video of the event, part 2:
We were greeted at the Newark Shopping Center by Darlene Battle of Delawareans for Social and Economic Justice and State Representative John Kowalko, both of whom spoke at a brief rally. Richard Field a local health care activists spoke as well and then three of our marchers–Iwonka, Bill, and Amy–told their stories. Local residents presented us with carnations and then we were on our way through the lovely city of Newark.
Here is an excerpt from Representative Kowalko’s remarks:
“I want to welcome all of you here today and thank each and every one of you for having the courage of your convictions and putting that into this wonderful effort to demand that the American pubic be heard…
And I want to acknowledge and thank those entities for the impeccable timing of the message they are sending which coincides with your march to Washington.
Who are those entities? Well they are the Anthems and Blue Crosses in California, Maine and other place, greedy out of touch profiteers who have decided to announce huge premium increases following record-break profits last year…Their willingness to break the back of American Working Families…will surely be seen by all those public servants in Washington as a message that cannot be misunderstood or ignored and that is
HEALTH CARE REFORM NOW, RECONCILIATION VOTE TODAY, PUBLIC OPTION NOW!”
And by the way, of the about fifty people at the rally, half said they would join us in Washington DC on the 24th.
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