Tennessee sit-in reaches day 38
I don't know why I haven't written about this here before. This started back in June. They've been there for the last five weeks. They spent the Fourth of July weekend locked in the Tennessee Capitol building, accompanied by a vigil outside. The governor has denied further food or water be brought in for the protestors. Still they persevere because they're fighting for their lives.
Read about it here. See the pictures. Email Governor Bredesen of Tennessee and tell him not to cut TennCare.
I can't imagine how weary and disheartened I'd be after over a month sleeping on a marble floor. Never mind -- I couldn't do it. It would endanger my health, as it no doubt does many of these determined people who fight to save their health care services, and for some, their right to live freely in their own homes.
Have you heard about this in your newspaper or on your local tv news? How about the national news? If not, why not? They've been living in the state capitol of Tennessee for 38 days.
4 comments:
Blue, thanks so much for posting about this. These people are so courageous - and I am absolutely enraged that I first learned about this here, that this has been going on for 40 days now and I haven't managed to learn about it. I think it says a lot about what the media does and doesn't cover, which frightens me nearly as much as it infuriates me. I hope you don't mind me linking to this post - if so, just let me know.
Just yesterday Missouri Governor Matt Blunt was speaking to an audience and his security peopled denied entrance to 9 people who use wheelchairs, saying they posed a safety risk. BTW, He was speaking at a meeting of the Governor's Council on Disability!
Hybrid, I don't mind at all! The more people hear about the protest the more power it has. The more people talk to their elected representatives in outrage about it, the better the outcome can be.
Scott, I heard about that. Sometimes the irony, she hurts.
Thanks for the heads-up. I will agitate at our news meetings in the next couple days to get this in the paper. Of course, it all depends on what's on the wire, and since I'm a troublemaker already for demanding that we run stories about the Pentagon refusing to hand over the remaining Abu Gharib photos, we'll see how far I get.
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