President to Answer Questions About Health Care Reform Wednesday
ABC News is embedding its news programming with the White House on June 24, including "Good Morning America" originating from the South Lawn, Charles Gibson anchoring "World News" from the Blue Room and a primetime special titled "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," moderated by "World News Tonight's" Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer. The network has come under fire from the RNC for the proposed programming. Read the RNC's complaint and ABC's response here www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/abc-news-health-care-special-draws-fire.html while the nation's largest business lobbying group, the National Chamber of Commerce joins the AMA and the GOP in marshaling its resources to fight against a public option.
Join us at SAAPAC, 7122 San Pedro, Suite 14 at 6:30 Wednesday night. We're having a phone bank/watch party Wednesday night urging others to watch the special and then enjoying it ourselves. There'll be pizza and soda (sorry, no beer... well, maybe root beer). Roll up your sleeves folks, it's time to go to work!
Bank on Health
Saturday, June 27, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, San Antonio Towne Center parking lot, SAAPAC Headquarters, 7122 San Pedro. While we work on influencing the form of the legislation, there is a lot we can do right now to further the cause of health. Come make a "deposit" in both the food bank and the blood bank. The San Antonio Food Bank and the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center will have vehicles parked at the SAAPAC headquarters.
Blood Facts: In order to meet hospital demands, the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center must collect at least 600 units of blood each day to service 100 hospitals in 43 South Texas counties. Sixty percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, however, only five percent do. Blood donation takes four steps: medical history, quick physical, donation, and snacks. The actual blood collection takes approximately 10-20 minutes. The entire process, from when you sign in to the time you leave, takes about 45 minutes to one hour.
Food Facts: Texas is the most food insecure state in the nation. Defined, food insecurity is when you are so limited in resources to buy food that you are running out of food, reducing the quality of food that your family eats, feeding your children unbalanced diets, or skipping meals so your children can eat. We have details on most needed items for the SA Food Bank at our website, www.alamobama08.com/service.html . It's going to take every person who reads this email to bring in 1.5 pounds of food to fill up the truck. Please sign up today at my.barackobama.com and in the comments section, tell us if you wish to donate blood, donate food or be a volunteer to help on the 27th. Or just contact us at alamobama09@aol.com.
Housekeeping Notes
We're at the SAAPAC office every Tuesday and Thursday, 1 PM to 5PM , 7122 San Pedro, Ste 114 . More volunteers mean more hours. We'll be doing some calling to push our Bank on Health event, bring your cell and come join us. Be sure to keep checking www.alamobama08.com for details.
White House
The President: announced United We Serve -- a call to action for all Americans to volunteer this summer and be part of building a new foundation for our country, one community at a time; having consulted the most expert regulators, leaders in Congress, and his entire economic team, announced his vision for desperately needed financial regulatory reform; laid out his vision for health care reform with more passion and detail than ever before, in a major speech to the American Medical Association; and the Administration releases a new report on climate change impacts in the United States representing a consensus of 13 agencies developed over a year and half. Don't forget to check out the many resources provided by the White House like: Middle Class Task Force www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass, the Open Government Initiative www.whitehouse.gov/open, and more at www.whitehouse.gov.
National
Health Care Reform
Stand with the President; go to the Health Care Action Center for more my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center
At www.healthreform.gov get an exhaustive trove of administrative information on health care and reform.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has provided a tool that provides a side by side comparison of major health care reform proposals www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm
H.R. 2454
The American Clean Energy and Security Act to create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy continues to move through the legislative process. The Library of Congress has information on the bill, it's content, and all legislative action to date at thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:7:./temp/~bdOBDE:@@@X|/bss/111search.html
Local
KSTX to Host Town Hall on Air Quality
Texas Public Radio is hosting a town hall meeting on air quality on Thursday, June 25 at 7 pm at the Buena Vista Theatre on the UTSA downtown campus. Admission is free. San Antonio is on the verge of non-compliance and hopefully that will be addressed at this meeting. For more information please go to www.tpr.org/tpr/pressreleases/2009/PR_20090616.html .
Governor Perry Says "No" to Pre-K Legislation
The Texas Senate approved HB 130, 26-5, meaning that full-day high-quality pre-k officially passed the 81st Texas Legislature. But the governor has vetoed the measure: "The governor also announced his veto of legislation that would create a new pre-kindergarten education grant program (HB 130); however, a similar grant program already exists. Consequently, Gov. Perry encourages the Texas Education Agency to ensure the $25 million appropriated for HB 130 be used to expand the number of students served by the existing pre-kindergarten grant program which could reach 21,000 more students (a 305 percent increase) over the next biennium than would have been served under HB 130." Hmmm…if the measure is vetoed, from where does the $25 million the Gov refers to come? Read more about the Governor's decisions on passed legislation governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12647/
SAAPAC Fundraiser
Groups are meeting and talking at San Antonio Progressive Area Coalition, 7122 San Pedro. AlamObama is just one of many groups taking advantage of this space. But SAAPAC needs funds to operate. So let's join them in their fundraiser Tuesday, June 30, 2009 , 5:30 - 10 pm at Big Kahuna Restaurant, 741 W. Ashby Place (across from SA Little Theater). Go to www.saapac.org to get details on the fundraiser, make a donation to SAAPAC if you can't attend, and find an activity that may interest you on their events calendar.
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