Health Care Reform Vigil to Honor Senator Edward Kennedy, Sept. 1st, Waterloo

“The dream shall never die”

I am sure that many of you like me are deeply saddened by the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Kennedy was the example of how full a life of service to the greater good can be.

I had the privilege of meeting Senator Kennedy in January of 2000, just days before the Iowa Caucus.  He was campaigning for Vice President Al Gores presidential bid along with the  Jazz Giant Herbie Hancock in the gymnasium at the University of Northern Iowa's Malcolm Price Laboratory School, I am sure that many of you were also at that event.

I had always admired the Kennedys, but believe it or not, I was not politically active at that time. It was Senator Kennedy who inspired me to get active and volunteer on Al Gore's Campaign. It was meeting Senator Kennedy on that cold, January day that set off a series of events that by the end of that year made me choose a life of political activism and service to the greater good.

We must now pick up where Senator Kennedy left off in what he described as the cause of his life, universal health care. We are within reach of Senator Kennedy's dream of achieving universal health care – the dream that health care is treated as a right, and not a privilege of the few.  

Please join us Tuesday the 1st of September from 5:30-7pm at the intersection of Kimball and Ridgeway in Waterloo.  

This will be a solemn and respectful event.  You are encouraged to bring positive signs in support of health care reform and the public insurance option. You are asked not to engage disrespectful hecklers who may try to disrupt the event.  The media will be invited, so a strong showing of support is needed.

Thanks for your time and action,

Chris Schwartz
Working Families Win
319-429-0133
chris@wfwin.org

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”   ~  Senator Edward Kennedy, August 1980, Democratic National Convention