"I'm staying in police custody until we have health care for all," Sam Pullen, 3 (tags)
Sam Pullen, 31, was arrested yesterday in Los Angeles at a sit-in at the Blue Cross health insurance office. He is refusing to give information to police, vowing to stay in jail until Blue Cross stops denying care to those who need it most. Pullen was inspired to action by his mother, who was denied coverage for a lifesaving bone marrow transplant by Blue Cross when he was a teenager. Weakened by her cancer treatments, Pullen's mother staged a one-woman sit-in at the insurance company office, resulting in the approval of the transplant that extended her life for years. Thanks to the transplant, she lived long enough to see Pullen reach 18 years of age. Here is Sam's story.
Chicago Civil Disobedience for Medicare For ALL (tags)
Clips from all over about this action. There's supposed to be one in LA on the 15th, but I haven't heard a peep about it. What's going on?
Embezzling UCLA doctor selects transplant recipients (tags)
Would you trust a doctor who steals from his own friends and co-workers to make ethical decisons about who should live and who ahould die? What if he finds he can make a few bucks on the side by selling a transplant opportunity? And if he did - would UCLA's medical adminaistrators care?