Single Payer Action will hold a protest at the opening of a new NYC Whole Foods store
WHEN: Thursday August 27, 2009 from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Whole Foods Market, Upper West Side, 808 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10025.
F.M.I.: For more information, contact Josh Starcher, Phone: 718.909.6343 e-mail: joshmee_@hotmail.com
Hope you can attend.
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August 26, 2009
Single Payer Activists Target Whole Foods Stores in Los Angeles, Denver and New York City
Over the next couple of days, single payer activists will be protesting at Whole Foods stores in Los Angeles, Denver and New York City.
Earlier this month, Single Payer Action called for a boycott of Whole Foods in response to Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey’s article in the Wall Street Journal arguing that health care should not be a fundamental human right.
All western industrial countries – except for the United States – deem health care to be a fundamental human right.
According to an Institute of Medicine report, sixty Americans die every day due to lack of health insurance.
Last week saw a slew of protests at Whole Foods’ across the country.
An investment group called on the board of directors to oust Mackey.
And the Boycott Whole Foods Facebook page now has more than 29,000 members.
“While the CEO of Whole Foods has the right to make his right-wing libertarian arguments in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, we have a right to inform his largely liberal customers about those views,” said Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action. “Mackey might be right about tofu and granola, but he’s wrong about health care. Single payer health reform – everybody in, nobody out – is the only option that will both cover everyone and control costs.”
Tomorrow, Thursday August 27 at 12 noon, single payer activists will picket the opening of a new Whole Foods store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
On Friday, August 28, single payer activists will be outside Whole Foods’ Westwood store in Los Angeles.
And on Wednesday, September 2, single payer activists will be outside Whole Foods’ Washington Park store in Denver.
The Whole Foods boycott in Los Angeles is being organized by a group of medical students from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
The group calls itself Advocates for Single Payer Reform (ASPiRe).
“We want to educate our colleagues, faculty, and other health professionals about the necessity for single-payer healthcare in the U.S.,” said student organizer Adam Saby. “Considering there’s a very popular Whole Foods market in Westwood, which is located right next to the UCLA campus, we believe it is our duty to let customers know that their dollars are going to fill the pockets of people like CEO Mackey who do not believe in ‘an intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter.’”
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Here are the details and contacts on the upcoming protests:
New York City. Thursday August 27, 2009, 12 noon to 1 p.m., Whole Foods Market, Upper West Side, 808 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10025.
Contact: Josh Starcher, Josh Starcher, Phone: 718.909.6343 e-mail: joshmee_@hotmail.com
Los Angeles. Friday, August 28, 2009, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Whole Foods Market, Westwood, 1050 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, California 90024.
Contact: Adam Saby, Advocates for Single Payer Reform, Phone: 714.454.0582
E-mail: asaby@ucla.edu
Denver. Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 12 noon to 1 p.m., Whole Foods Market, Washington Park, 1111 S. Washington St. Denver, Colorado 80210.
Contact: Judy Trompeter, Phone: Phone: 303/894-0713, E-mail: schumpeter@worldnet.att.net
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