Take Action

What Can You Do? 

 

1)  Sign up for our email list.  Join our email list to stay up to date on local events and activities.

 

2)  Register to vote. Be sure you are registered to vote, and if you move, be sure to update your registration. http://www.sos.state.al.us/Elections/VoterRegistrationInfo.aspx

 

3)  Contact your Congress people. Ask them to co-sponsor and/or vote for federal legislation HR 676 the “US National Health Insurance Act.” It’s also called “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.”  You can write, email, fax or set up a meeting.

+  Representative Parker Griffith http://griffith.house.gov/index.html

+  Senator Jeff Sessions http://sessions.senate.gov/public/

+  Senator Richard Shelby http://shelby.senate.gov/public/

 

4)  Write letters to the editor

+  Huntsville Times —   Keep under 250 words. Send to letters@htimes.com For other

guidelines, see  http://www.al.com/huntsvilletimes/?contact.html#edletters

+  Decatur Daily –   editor@decaturdaily.com

+  Florence-Times Daily  –  vent@timesdaily.com

+  Scottsboro Daily Sentinel –   dsnews@thedailysentinel.com

+  Valley Planet (this publication comes out every three weeks. It is distributed in Huntsville, Madison, Scottsboro, Athens, Decatur, Hampton Cove and Guntersville.

Remember to keep letters under 300 words. Send to opinions@valleyplanet.com

 

5)  Blog about healthcare issues on your favorite blogs.

 

6)  Schedule a healthcare reform speaker for your civic organization, business group, church, etc. Send an email to speakers@northalabamahealthcareforall.org for speaker information.

 

7)  Talk to your friends, family, co-workers, etc. about your views on healthcare reform.