Ocean State Action celebrates
2nd Annual Health Care Policy Heroes!
Please Join Us to Honor
State Representative Ray Sullivan,
SEIU 1199,
and Nancy St. Germain
Guest Speakers to include:
Margarida Jorge, National Field Director for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), formerly of SEIU, AFSCME,
and Missouri ProVote
Jeff Blum, Executive Director of USAction
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 6PM - 8PM
Local 121, Providence
Get your tickets here.
Tell Congress: Protect Consumers and Hold the Big Wall Street Banks Accountable!
Call Senator Jack Reed Toll Free TODAY at 1-866-544-7573.
Tell Senator Reed to support financial reform that holds big Wall Street Banks accountable.
Historic health reform has passed! The bill is a victory for the American people:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you’re sick, cap your benefits, sell you junk insurance, or raise rates with impunity.
- For the first time, Members of Congress will get their health insurance from the same system regular Americans do.
- Small business and working families will security and stability knowing they can afford good health insurance that meets their needs.
- 32 million uninsured Americans will get affordable coverage, saving over 30,000 lives per year.
Read an op-ed from a Rhode Island emergency physician explaining why we need reform.
Now write your own!
- Health Care Policy Heroes
- Flat Tax Repeal
- Finance Reform
- Health Care Reform
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Over 50 protestors came together on December 15th to call for a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. The protestors stood in the rain for over an hour outside of a house on Potters Avenue in Providence that has been foreclosed upon to support the house's tenants.
Tenants in the house have received letters from a real estate agency and a law office representing the bank that currently owns the house, notifying them that they are being asked to vacate the premises, even though the tenants have been paying their rent. Despite the tenants paying their rent, the homeowner was unable to meet his adjustable rate mortgage and was foreclosed upon by the lending bank. The tenants have told the bank that they are willing to pay rent to the bank, and do not want to move.
The rally, organized by the RI Bank Tenant and Homeowner Association (RIBTHA), OSA and several of its allies, including Direct Action for Rights and Equality, HOPE, the Housing Action Coalition, Olneyville Neighborhood Association, Providence Students for a Democratic Society, RI Coalition for the Homeless, and RI Jobs with Justice, also called for a People's Economic Bailout that will help struggling families stay in their homes in these challenging economic times. The RIBTHA also unveiled their Tenants Bill of Rights.
 See press release for the rally.
See the ProJo's coverage of the rally here.
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Visit the Rhode Island Policy Reporter at What Cheer! for up-to-date policy analysis and reports.
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