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MoveOn.org – Encouraging People to See “Sicko” and Support the First Weekend Numbers

Here is a recent mailing MoveOn.org sent its subscribers to get the word out on "Sicko," which opens in Theaters across the country on Friday, June 29.

Coming to a theater near you this weekend! A summer blockbuster about...health care?

Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, could put health care at the top of the nation's political agenda—and we can help. If opening weekend is a success, lots more people will go see Sicko. It's a great movie—poignant at times, funny at others.

Can you pledge to see Sicko this weekend and bring your friends and family along? The theater and showtimes near you are in the box on the right.

Click here to watch the movie trailer and sign up:

http://pol.moveon.org/sickopledge/?id=10633-3842957-quvRry&t=2

We'll report to the media the number of people who pledge to attend.

When you go see Sicko, you'll hear true stories like these:

• A middle-class couple with insurance move into their daughter's basement after cancer forces them into bankruptcy.
• An American woman goes undercover in Canada in search of prescription drugs for her illness.
  Richard Nixon's secret White House tapes reveal he decided to authorize the first HMOs because "the less care they give them, the more money they make."
• A doctor employed by an insurance company testifies before Congress about letting a man die to save her company money—then getting a promotion.
• Like most of Michael Moore's movies, this one has a point of view. It's an argument to change our failing health care system. And it comes just in time.

The next president will have to take on health care. Several 2008 candidates—John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack Obama—have plans to guarantee affordable health care for everyone with a public insurance option. These are the most forward-thinking proposals ever seen in a presidential race.

But the HMOs, big health insurers, and drug companies are busy trying to buy off White House hopefuls with lots of campaign cash. They want to keep making billions by denying Americans affordable health care.

So after the movie, we'll ask presidential candidates to promise not to take campaign money from any of the industry's PACs, lobbyists, or executives. And to turn up the heat, we'll pass out fliers to movie-goers encouraging them to call up their favorite candidate.

Not one more person should suffer or die because our leaders won't stand up to the companies at the root of our health care problems.

Please pledge to see Sicko this weekend—a fun way to fight for affordable health care for everyone. The theater and showtimes are below. Just click here:

http://pol.moveon.org/sickopledge/?id=10633-3842957-quvRry&t=3

This weekend, Sicko is playing near you at:

Landmark Mayan
110 Broadway Denver, CO
Phone: (303)352-1992
Friday: (11:00 AM), (12:00 PM), 1:45 PM, 2:45 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 7:15 PM, 8:15 PM, 10:00 PM
Saturday: (11:00 AM), (12:00 PM), 1:45 PM, 2:45 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 7:15 PM, 8:15 PM, 10:00 PM
Sunday: (11:00 AM), (12:00 PM), 1:45 PM, 2:45 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 7:15 PM, 8:15 PM, 10:00 PM

And if you can, pass out fliers after the movie to keep the health care industry's money out of the next White House, so we can win affordable health care for everyone. The fliers are co-sponsored by our friends at the Campaign for America's Future and Public Campaign Action Fund.

Thank you for all you do.

–Noah, Wes, Karin, Laura, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Thursday, June 28th, 2007

P.S. Are you a nurse? Sicko's your movie. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and 25 activist nurse groups around the country are co-hosting premieres and events to help turn movie-goers into health care activists. Click here to find out how you can join the special "Scrubs for Sicko" opening night outreach:

http://www.calnurse.org/sicko/premiere-sign-up-form.html