Let's

"Shake It Up
for Single-Payer"

—outside Senator Patty Murray's office!

We are staging a colorful demonstration to let our Congressmembers know that we want single-payer healthcare.

Single-payer healthcare systems (as in Canada and Australia) are systems in which care is based on need, not on ability to pay. No one is left out.

Among the demonstrators are artist-activists Dina Lydia of Citizen Artiste and international bellydance star Delilah of Visionary Studios, famed in Seattle for her contingent of dazzling dancers every year at the Solstice Parade. Code Pink members are joining us.

This demonstration is sponsored by Single Payer Action, a national non-profit seeking to implement a single payer health insurance system in the United States. Please sign their petition! And see the video.

Some basic facts here to hand out: Download Shake It Up half-sheet flier (PDF, reduced at left)

We know 7th District Rep. Jim McDermott is a longtime leader in health care insurance reform, but other Washington Reps and Senators - not so much.

We invite you to join us as we use our talents to draw attention to this important humanitarian issue — and have fun! Wear a costume and dance with us! (Guys too!)

~ Dina Lydia, Citizen Artiste