These protesters, along with those soldiers who have spoken out against the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, are the true heroes of this country. Single payer and universal health care should be on the table instead of the Democrats' puny public option.

Healthcare Not Warfare.

Criminal tresspassing at an insurance company sales office? Hey, whatever. Just make something up.

Police protecting corporations from the threat of speech and getting paid by the people they arrested.
Perfect.

Police in Chicago and everywhere else in the "land of the free" better wake up. They are NOTHING but thugs for the machine! What ever happened to "protect and serve?" Oh, sorry, I forgot! Welcome to AmeriKKKa!!!

Screw the "Your money or your health" insurance company ass souls, pharmacidal maniacs, "YOUR money to" Burnanksters and their Wall Street-walkers and particularly their lipstick-up artist at the Casa Blanca buck stop in their Washington DC (Division Corporate) headquarters!

Only SEVEN? In CHICAGO? What's this world coming to???

The police really should be commended. Since the protesters weren't wearing face masks should one or more of them have sneezed in the general direction of the Cigna front door they might have infected the building with swine flu... the potential for bio-terrorism existed. The company would have had to have paid for the treatment of its own emplyees thus infected and suffered ecconomic hardship. Better to 'quarantine' these miscreants than take all those risks.

From the linked site:

Together, through this campaign, we can turn the tide and win the fight for health care for all. To succeed, we need to organize sit-ins in as many cities as possible in the month of October. The campaign began in New York City on September 29th and continues in Chicago on October 8th and in cities across the country on October 15th. After the 15th, we will continue to organize actions in as many cities as possible until we win health care reform that ensures that the insurance companies no longer stand between the American people and the health care that we need. It's time to cut out the profit and put patients first with Medicare for All.

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Nobel Peace Prize recipient Obama can afford to expand our nuclear program and expand the Afghanistan War into Pakistan, but we cannot afford healthcare. And while the Supreme Court gets ready to rule that corporation's money does equal citizen's speech and should not be limited in any way, citizens are arrested for protesting and military weapons are used against those who assemble to have their grievances addressed (LRAD at G-20 protests).

Jeered at and flipped off by Cigna Corp. employees no doubt.

There are those whose virtue it is to say "Virtue is necessary" but they really believe that only police are necessary.---Nietzsche

You're all stating the obvious...it's almost boring. Oh well, I might as well add my favorite platitude: "The authorities could care less whether you live or die".

I remember back in the sixties people would go out en masse in the streets, in the hundreds of thousands. Those were the days...endless back-to-back protests. Not much was accomplished (!) but at least we weren't sheeple.

There is no free speech today...the oft heard claim that we have free speech is a sick joke. The country is truly a de facto dictatorship and Obama was hired as the World's best cover. As cover, he is performing admirably: He just signed $600 billion for the department of mass murder and he presides over the continuing slaughter of people on at least two continents but he'll work for peace in the future according to the descendants of the inventor of dynamite.

Thank you, Common Dreams for reporting on this protest supporting Single-Payer health care.

Correct me if I am wrong, but was Progressive Democrats of America not at the demonstration?

THis is at least not as freaky as the G20 Anarchists Provocatuers. Which may be a bad thing, as it's less noticable. I am starting to really hate my stupid suburb sans people.

Who in the hell still lives with any delusions about the priorities of our Congress members: (1) self-enrichment, (2) pandering to the Corporatrists who are making them rich, (3) er...., er...., er...., er...., er...., Sorry, I guess that's it!!!!!

For Nataline – Health Care is a Human Right.

On Dec. 20, 2007 Nataline Sarkisyan was murdered by the wall street company, Cigna.

Nataline's family had paid Cigna for “insurance”. However, wall street only insures one thing, shareholder profits and CEO salaries. Cigna chose profit over Nataline's precious life.

We are outraged that the the precious life of a 17 year old woman was so callously discarded. All human life is sacred. Health Care is a human right, not an option that wall street chooses to buy or sell.

The fight for Guaranteed Single Payer Health Care is an extension of the Civil Rights movement.

Congress is getting ready to pass a bill (HR 3200) which mandates compulsory payments to wall street insurance. That begs the question: Which congress member is willing to place the life of their son or daughter in the hands of Cigna, or any other wall street insurance company?

We need Medicare for All. We need to eliminate wall street insurance. We need to return health care decisions back to doctors, nurses and patients. We need HR 676.

Demand your congress member co-sponsor HR 676 (as well as the Kucinich and Weiner amendments to HR 3200). Only the government can guarantee human rights. The only way to reform health care is to eliminate wall street insurance. Demand it in the halls of congress and on the streets of Chicago.

Remember Nataline.

The United Nations -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a25
1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.