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Sign the Petition! Tell Governor Quinn we need a health exchange now!
Date:
05/02/2012 
Dear Friends,
On April 12th of 2012, Governor Cuomo of New York State signed an Executive Order establishing a health exchange. Now is the time for Governor Quinn to do the same for Illinois.
We are collecting 2,000 signatures over the next 2 weeks. Pass this petition to your friends and neighbors. We need to show our support for healthcare.
Tell Governor Quinn to establish a health exchange today!
The right wing is attacking us every day. It’s time to stand up again and fight for Healthcare for America NOW!
Sign the petition today - Call on Governor Quinn to issue an Executive Order to establish a health exchange.
A key provision in the Affordable Cate Act is the creation of health benefits exchanges in each state by 2014. These Exchanges will operate as a marketplace for individuals and small businesses to compare and buy quality and affordable health insurance.
The creation of an Exchange for over 1 million Illinoisans is no small task. The fastest way to get this done is through an Executive Order.
Help over a million Illinoisans without affordable health care today. Sign our petition calling on Governor Quinn to establish a health exchange today!
Sincerely,
Lynda DeLaforgue
Citizen Action/Illinois
Tell Governor Quinn: We need a health exchange now!
CA/IL honors Todd Smith, Clerk David Orr, Richard Kirsch at 2012 Pauls Awards
Date:
04/27/2012 
2012 Senator Paul Simon / Senator Paul Wellstone Awards
On Monday evening, April 23, 2012, Citizen Action/Illinois honored champions of the progressive movement at the seventh annual Senator Paul Simon / Senator Paul Wellstone Awards.
Protesters fight Medicaid cuts at Ill. Capitol
Date:
04/26/2012 
From WJBC AM 1230 FM 93.7 and wjbc.com:
Protesters fight Medicaid cuts at Ill. Capitol
By: Alex Degman | April 25, 2012
SPRINGFIELD — As talks about deep Medicaid cuts pick up steam, so are the buses carrying people protesting them.
Dozens of people came to the Capitol Wednesday to protest what they say are unfair and inhumane cuts to the Medicaid program.
Wisconsin gov. tells Illinois business leaders to reign in public-sector unions; Illinois working families say "Go home!"
Date:
04/18/2012 
From stltoday.com:
Wisconsin governor tells Illinois business leaders to reign in public-sector unions
BY KEVIN McDERMOTT • kmcdermott@post-dispatch.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:05 am
Panel: Trauma care shortage costs lives in Southland
Date:
03/27/2012
From the Southtown Star:
BY MARY J. PALEOLOGOS Correspondent March 26, 2012 10:30PM
Updated: March 27, 2012 2:09AM
A person critically injured in a car accident in Park Forest is as likely as not to die before he or she makes it to the nearest trauma center in Oak Lawn to be treated.
Mcnary to Receive Gentle Warrior Award
Date:
02/24/2012 
Join us in celebrating the work of Citizen Action/Illinois Co-Director William McNary as he receives the 2012 Gentle Warrior Award from the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum.
Feb. 25, 6:00 p.m., 2230 S. Michigan Ave. Click here for tickets and more information.
And read more about the awards below:
Kadner: No state plan to treat mentally ill
Date:
01/27/2012 From the Herald-News:
Kadner: No state plan to treat mentally ill
Phil Kadner
pkadner@southtownstar.com
January 23, 2012 8:50PM
Updated: January 24, 2012 5:15AM
Illinois is once again planning to close the Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
Citizen Action/Illinois Releases 2011 Annual Report
Date:
01/17/2012
CA/IL Releases Annual Report
Citizen Action/Illinois is proud to release our 2011 Annual Report. It was a busy and important year, and we look forward to continuing to fight for the middle class and the progressive agenda in 2012.
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Eleven states, D.C. back Obama on health law
Date:
01/17/2012 
From The Washington Times:
Eleven states, D.C. back Obama on health law
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Friday, January 13, 2012
Eleven states and the District of Columbia are siding with the Obama administration in the legal battle over the constitutionality of the new health care law, as more than half the states prepare to challenge the law before the Supreme Court.
Iraq War Ends, and a 2002 Rally Comes Full Circle
Date:
12/20/2011
From inthesetimes.com:
By Daniel Hertz
CHICAGO - In the same downtown plaza where, nine years earlier, then-state senator Barack Obama rallied thousands of protesters against the imminent invasion of Iraq, about fifty people gathered Friday morning to mark President Obama’s announcement that the war had officially come to an end.
