Demonstrations in Favor of the Public Option This Week in NYC, LA and Atlanta!

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Demonstrations in Favor of the Public Option This Week in NYC, LA and Atlanta!
By Cenk Uygur

We are organizing street demonstrations in favor of the public option across the country. We are going to ask CNN - Most Trusted Name in News - to accurately tell the American people and the politicians that come on their show that the clear majority of the American people support the public option (here is a clip where they totally misrepresented the facts on national support for the public option).

Crazed right-wingers made a very public display of their antipathy toward health care reform earlier in the year. The overwhelming majority of the American population that has been in favor the public option has been called the Silent Majority. It's time to stop being so silent.

So, we're going to go to CNN headquarters in NY, LA and Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 at 12Noon local time to show that there are people willing to stand up for the public option. Votes are coming up in the Senate and the House. The fate of the public option hangs in the balance right now. If you want the public option, this is the time to fight.

Here are the addresses of the three different locations:

CNN Atlanta

190 Marietta St, NW

Atlanta, GA 30303

CNN New York

10 Columbus Circle

New York, NY 10019

CNN Los Angeles

6430 W Sunset Blvd Ste 300

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Here is the link to the Facebook events where you can see who else is coming and coordinate in your area:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=170078072...

UPDATE: People have been asking about signs. Here are some signs I would love to see. I would just write these numbers, nice and big on the sign and then write the Survey it came from at the bottom. These are all the percentage of Americans who said they wanted the public option:

77% (SurveyUSA 8/20/09)

65% (NY Times/CBS News 9/25/09)

55% (Washington Post/ABC News 9/12/09)

62% (Quinnipiac 8/03/09)

56% (Time 7/28/09)

72% (NY Times/CBS News 6/20/09)

56% (Washington Post/ABC News 10/20/09)

59% (Kaiser Family Foundation 8/11/09)

UPDATE II: I want everyone to know that, of course, the whole TYT crew will be at the LA protest, including me. We will also be taping it for the show.

And if you can tape the NY or Atlanta ones, please let us know in the comments here because we'll reach out to you on how to get that video from you so we can use it on the show. Thanks!

K&R	CaliforniaPeggy	Nov-03-09 07:54 PM	#1
K&R	FiveGoodMen	Nov-03-09 07:56 PM	#2
HA!	Cha	Nov-03-09 07:59 PM	#4
Rec #5! Wish I could go.	jgraz	Nov-03-09 07:58 PM	#3
Thanks for the update, ihnb.	Cha	Nov-03-09 08:00 PM	#5
Hope all those folks "MAD AS HELL" will show up if they can get to these demonstrations..	KoKo	Nov-03-09 08:02 PM	#6
K and R	Wetzelbill	Nov-03-09 08:03 PM	#7
K&R	HughMoran	Nov-03-09 08:07 PM	#8
K&R n/t	OhioChick	Nov-03-09 08:16 PM	#9
k & r 10. nt	rhett o rick	Nov-03-09 08:21 PM	#10
k&r. I'll be there. n/t	nyc 4 Biden	Nov-03-09 08:24 PM	#11
K&R I hope you manage to get a decent crowd and some good video footage comes from it.	Turborama	Nov-03-09 08:40 PM	#12
K & R! nt	NYC_SKP	Nov-03-09 08:41 PM	#13
Hubby (DUer Bezerko) and I will be going to the Atlanta one.	RubyDuby in GA	Nov-03-09 09:55 PM	#14
K&R	pleah	Nov-03-09 10:55 PM	#15
KICK	lonestarnot	Nov-04-09 08:47 AM	#16
K&R	Soylent Brice	Nov-04-09 09:56 AM	#17
I wish I could go	libodem	Nov-05-09 01:43 AM	#18
Kick	democracy1st	Nov-05-09 05:57 AM	#19