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| Public Citizen’s Texas billboard |
Every once in a while, though, like in the Jan/Feb issue of News, they tell you exactly what they’ve been doing and invite people — of course — to jump on board.
Here’s their prongs:
- Encouraging local governments to pass resolutions for M4A (update)
- Creating citizen petitions (sign now)
- Pushing for House hearings
- Collecting co-sponsors for the M4A Act (118 to date, more than half of the Democratic caucus)
- Advertising and informing (billboards, graphics, videos, etc.)
- Setting up webinars/virtual town halls (full list here)
- Calling press conferences and sending tipsheets to reporters
- Publishing reports and analyses, e.g., “Fever Pitch: Surge in Opposition Lobbying” (June 2019) and “The Case for Medicare-for-All” (Feb 2019)
- Organizing public statements
And three they didn’t mention in the article:
- Putting out articles in Public Citizen News, e.g. “Medicare-for-All Truths Drown Out Industry Lies” (March/April 2019)
- Preparing toolkits for grassroots organizing
- Street actions, like this one at Big Pharma lobbying HQ last April
Town hall includes Reps. Pressley and Omar and Public Citizen’s
Medicare for All campaign director Melinda St. Louis
Webinar speakers include Richard Master (founder of Business for M4A) and
research prof Jeannette Wicks-Lim (U. of Amherst Political Economy Research Inst.)
I like the way they’re spending my donations.
