Health Care Activism - Contact your Representatives

As announced in a prior e-mail to the group and prior post, health care is our very timely current topic for intellectual activism. I will be sending out e-mails with opportunities for us to spread the Objectivist perspective, and hope many of you can participate with whatever time you have available.

Our first opportunity is to bring rational ideas to the attention of our elected representatives – and to show them, compellingly, that a smart, informed opposition to the ObamaCare debacle does exist.

To make it easier for you to contact your representatives, we have pulled some resources together:

List of representatives, with addresses, e-mail forms and town hall meetings. (Thanks, Kirk, for pulling this together!) If you are not on our e-mail list yet, and would like to obtain this list, please e-mail us at goldengateobjectivists[at]gmail[dot]com, and we will send you the list and add you to our mailing list.

Helpful links to articles you can read up for your own arguments, or share as links with the representatives (or print & mail to their physical office addresses.)

“Health Care is Not A Right” by Dr. Peikoff

Dr. Lewis’ analysis of the house bill

The Objective Standard has many great articles on healthcare. Craig Biddle, the publisher, is giving people the permission to buy a pdf of an article, and then distribute it free of charge as intellectual activism. You can find one great article, “Moral Health Care vs Universal Health Care”, here. If you want to forward the article to your representatives or others, please go to TOS and pay the $4.95 to buy your own pdf copy to support the magazine.

Let’s get a lot of e-mails and letters out to the representatives. They will likely not share our ideas – but it’s much harder to honestly claim the opposition is an ‘angry mob’ when we can show the intellectual quality of the argument for free market health care.

P.S. It is also a good idea to use these same links and materials with your own personal networks – distribute the TOS article to friends & family who may be sympathetic, or post the links to the articles to your Facebook/MySpace pages etc.

Tea Party - Successful Event

Today, about a dozen Golden Gate Objectivists participated in the Tax Day Tea Party in San Francisco. We showed up with flags, and a half dozen coordinated posters. I would guess about 600-800 people were at the event, which was very peaceful and outright beautiful, on a nice sunny day in a wonderful setting.

We all felt it was great to be out there, speaking our minds - and most of all, getting the message about Ayn Rand and the Ayn Rand Center out to a receptive audience. All of us had numerous people come up to us throughout the event, talking about how Ayn Rand should be read by everybody. I had a chance to make a few brief comments - and received loud cheers at the mention of Ayn Rand, and her quote about taking up the moral fight for capitalism. We also passed out about 200 flyers, promoting Atlas Shrugged and ARC editorials on the financial crisis and Ayn Rand's relevance - to very receptive recipients.

Overall, I think this was a very successful first event for the relaunched GGO - and I look forward to doing more of these, and having more of you participate.



Here's a short video of the event, to give you a better idea: