BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - As a response to the recent electon of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and a continuation of the push to pass a national health care reform bill, the Service Employees International Union Local 615 hosted a rally and march from their headquarters at 26 West Street, on Saturday. Other sponsors included MoveOn Boston, Northeast Action, Jobs with Justice, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1445 and the Alliance to Develop Power. Gillian Mason, council coordinator for MoveOn Boston, led the rally, which also included speeches by SEIU president Rocío Sáenz, SEIU executive board member Hector Conde, International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 201 vice president Alex Brown and Norris Kamo, regional director for the Massachusetts chapter of Doctors for America.

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BOSTON/Boston Common - Over 5000 members of labor unions, Democratic Party chapters and health care advocacy organizations gathered on the Boston Common for a Health Care Rally on Labor Day. The event was called to shore up regional support for a public health care option - though not a single-payer option - in the proposed national health care reform plan being pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic Party leaders.

Boston Common-Sept. 7, 2009
About one thousand concerned citizens gathered on Boston Common today to voice their demand for universal health care for all.

Milton, MA – About 800 people packed into the Curry College Alumni Recreation Center’s gymnasium this past Thursday, to speak out and listen to various opinions on national health care financing reform. From the thunderous applause and loud cat calls at times, the gym seemed about evenly split between supporters of a “public option” measure and those who think any change in health care delivery or financing is tantamount to socialism.

The event – postponed for a week in deference to the funeral of Senator Edward Kennedy - was sponsored by the Greater Boston Labor Council and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and hosted by Curry College President Kenneth Quiglan.

BOSTON/State House steps - They came with a cake Thursday to celebrate the 44th birthday of the federal Medicare program.

About thirty union organizers and members of organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America (Boston Chapter), Jobs with Justice, MA Nurses Association, Physicians for a National Health Program, and others, spoke out in favor of using the best aspects of the Medicare program as a model to craft effective and comprehensive health care reform in the U.S. and Massachusetts.

BOSTON/Government Center - At noon on Thursday July 23, the sounds of downtown traffic were joined by the rallying shouts of the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) and its community allies outside the offices of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. Members of the North Shore Labor Council, the Service Employees International Union State Council, the American Federation of Teachers of Massachusetts, and Jobs with Justice joined the GBLC to demonstrate in support of health care reform. The group of about three hundred union workers and supporters were there to draw the public’s attention to demands for a public option in health care financing that also does not tax benefits.

BOSTON/Roxbury - Older residents of Boston and other cities, led by advocates from the Mass Senior Action Council demonstrated on Thursday against cuts in funding for state programs such as Prescription Advantage. About forty people gathered at the intersections of Blue Hill and Geneva Avenues and Warren Street in Grove Hall.

Shaking pill bottles and wearing plastic buttocks sticking out from underneath hospital gowns, several activists chanted “keep me covered” while supporting hospital nurses whose ranks, they say, have been thinned drastically by budget cuts.