Got time this Saturday? Support healthcare reform with your feet!

In support of healthcare reform and the public option, V4CF members are invited to join us as we head out to shopping centers, farmer's markets, parks, and other locations throughout Representative Jim Costa's district, to distribute information about healthcare reform and how to support it.

We'll be reaching out to the community and heading out in teams, urging them to contact Rep. Costa's and Senator Dianne Feinstein's offices to express strong support for healthcare reform and the public option. We'll even be supplying them with phone numbers and talking points on a leaflet, so they can express their support quickly and simply.

Want to join us? First, RSVP to Nancy Griesser at nancyg@csufresno.edu, or Connie Peterson at c.peterson8784@sbcglobal.net. Then, plan to meet us at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Revue Coffeehouse, 620 East Olive Avenue in the Tower District. We plan to leaflet until about 12:30 p.m., with participants invited to meet at Me and Ed's Pizza in the Tower afterward (1247 Wishon) to debrief and celebrate the morning's efforts.

Also, if your place of worship has a 'social justice committee' or similar, please share that committee's contact information with Nancy or Connie. We'd like to get some of the flyers we'll be using on Saturday to interested committees for disbursement to church members on Sunday.