Shhhh! Today There Is A Rally In DC In Support Of Healthcare Reform - Top Secret!

[TomCADem]

The attendance is greater than most tea bag rallies, but the press coverage of this rally is almost non-existent. Makes you wonder where is the "liberal media"?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24203.html

[graywarrior]

1. Nothing on the news?

I'm shocked.

[flpoljunkie]

3. MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell interviewed Edie Falco whose there for the this rally.

Falco understands not having health care as she has been there herself and has family members who are without health care.

Watch the video Falco made for Health Care for America Now:

http://www.healthcareforamericanow.org/

[Better Believe It]

2. What specific demands are they making regarding health care reform?

I hope that's not a top secret!

For example:

Where do they stand on ....

taxing health care benefits

a strong public option

single payer

a public option starting in 2010 or do they prefer 2013?

a public option charging Medicare rates.

a co-op system

[TomCADem]

6. Dunno! Still Trying To Find Links On MSNBC and CNN

I guess the media must be intimidated by the GOP and corporate sponsors that any such coverage would be biased. In sharp contrast, the coverage of the Tea Bag rallies was fair and balanced. I guess we can only wish that a network would get behind the healthcare issue.

My question is whether a real grass roots movement in support of a public option on healthcare can match the astroturf movement generated at the whim of Rupert Murdoch. Can liberals move beyond anonymously threatening not to vote for President Obama in the next election to actually hitting the streets and demonstrating with the same passion as Tea Baggers and Pro-Prop 8 activists.

Indeed, liberals will need to out-organize and out-demonstrate their conservative counter-parts due to the corporate bias in the media. Its not fair, but unless we do so, we will fail. President Obama's failure to pass health care is our failure as well.

[madfloridian]

4. There were lots of others there besides Schumer. Dean there as well.

Too bad Politico failed to mention them.

http://healthcare09.org/site/content/events_schedule

June 25th

9:00am-10:30 am

Lobby Training for Community/Union Member Lobbyists

11:00am

Buses arrive and crowd starts to assemble for Rally

11:30am-12:30pm

Rally

Actress Edie Falco, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), HCAN Campaign Manager Richard Kirsch, CWA President Larry Cohen, AFSCME President Jerry McEntee, SEIU Secretary Treasurer Anna Burger, Governor Howard Dean, Congressman Becerra (D-CA), National Physicians Alliance President-Elect Valerie Arkoosh and other leading Members of Congress and Senators are expected to speak.

1:00pm-4:00pm

Lobby Visits & Town Hall Meetings

[Better Believe It]

15. I like the TV commercial and broader range of speakers.

Most if not all of the speakers are strong supporters of at least a public option.

Hopefully the message coming out of the demonstration is that this is a protest demanding a strong public option and the mass media picks up on it.

[sandnsea]

5. Videos, etc. Howard Dean was there too

http://www.healthcareforamericanow.org/

[flpoljunkie]

7. Dean apparently delivered about 400,000 petition signatures for a public option to Congress

[TomCADem]

8. Photos Suggest Its At Least As Big As Most Tea Bag Rallies - Why No Major Coverage?

Did the participants take an oath of secrecy? You would think with President Obama hosting a townhall, and speaking in support of a public option, and the fact that this is the major issue before Congress that some major network would cover this. Perhaps we need a National pro-public option day in July?

[sandnsea]

11. Why no blog buzz?

I have posted on today's rally and Saturday's Day of Service until I got sick of posting it. The free thinkers who do not march in lockstep - weren't told directly by Ralph Nader to get in line.

[Cleita]

9. Here's a website that is putting up pictures.

http://healthcare09.org/

Otherwise, there are crickets chirping in the media.

[Cha]

10. Rec'd~ We are the news..the corporatemediawhores

don't advertise anything to do with real people ..only freakshows like teabaggers.

When is the populace going to figure that out as a whole?

I know a lot more people are on to them now than 8 years ago..this media brought us bush and the War On Iraq.

I don't even like "liberal media" in parentheses anymore..they're Fascist Central and most of DU knows it.

Did anyone catch dianne sawyer and charlie gibson squawking at Pres Obama last night?

[Soylent Brice]

12. K&R

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. the media don't want you to have healthcare

[FrenchieCat]

14. Media = Public Enemy #1 of the American people hard at work!

What would we do without them? Be more informed perhaps!

[mkultra]

16. WOW, people working to tell congress to support public option

Instead of bitching about Obama, they are actually working to tell congress to get off their ass. Shocking.

[TomCADem]

18. Totally Agree - Kudos To Those Who Participated In These Rallies

It is easy to say repeatedly renounce the Democratic party and President Obama even when President Obama supports a public option, but to go out there on a hot summer day in D.C., and to rally in relative anonymity due to the lack of media coverage is very impressive. To those folks on this board who attended this, and similar rallies, I salute you.

[mkultra]

20. i pronounce them as true progressives

They stand in contrast to our friendly arm chair progressives here at DU.

[midnight]

17. Thanks Tom for this secret. I would of had no idea.

That darn liberal media is asleep at the wheel!

[chill_wind]

19. Well...they were giggling just now on MSNBC.. Shuster and Tamron Hall.

They just picked and played a few seconds of someone at the podium leading in song and made it look extraordinarily anemic and corny. Tamron was audibly laughing. My bet is they will repeat those few select seconds over and over if they show any of it again at all. The media knows how to do this.