9:00-10:00 Registration and "Victory 2009" Networking (with bagels & cream cheese, fruit & juice, coffee, tea, and water)
10:00-10:30 "The Big Picture: A 2009 Winning Formula for Passing Pennsylvania's HB 1660/SB 300: "The Family and Business Healthcare Security Act" (Publicly-Funded, Privately-Provided, First-Rate, Comprehensive, Life-Giving, Money-Saving, Job-Generating, Healthcare for All. That's Everybody In, Nobody Out.)
Welcome: Chuck Pennacchio "Victory 2009"
Developing leadership: Dr Scott Tyson
What needs to be done: Marty Schor
Inside/Outside strategy: Cindy Purvis
Communicating our message: Jerry Policoff
Winning the youth: Dustin Moore
Local organizing: Pedro Rodriguez
10:30-11:00 Keynote Speaker: Norman Solomon, Single Payer Leader on CA SB 840, US HR 676, and PDA "Healthcare NOT Warfare" National Co-Chair, "Keystone State, Say Hello to the Golden State: Learning Lessons from California's Continuing Battle for Universal Healthcare"
11:00-12:00 Panel: "The Economic Genius of Public Single Payer (While You Choose Your Provider) Healthcare for All"
Presenters: Professor Chris Byrne, Dr. Bill Davidson, Dr. Walter Tsou, Charlie Crystle, Judy Gordon,
Moderator: Cindy Purvis
12:00-12:30 Lunch Break (downstairs)
12:30-1:30 Panel: "Organizing, Mobilizing, and Lobbying Our Way to Victory in 2009 -- or, Learning How to Leverage Municipal, County, State, and Federal Governments to Cooperate, Coordinate, Collaborate, and Legislate the Single Payer Healthcare Solution in Service of All"
Presenters: HC4APA/Pedro Rodriguez, Sen Russ Feingold's office/Sara Steines, Rep. Barb Smith, PASNAP/Patty Eakin, USW/Mike Stout [org labor], AMSA/Lindsay Kaldor, LWV/Janice Horn, PA Council of Churches/Sandy Strauss, NAACP/Jerry Mondesire, NASW/Bob Mason, Peace & Justice/Molly Rush, PSEA/Rosie Skomitz
Moderator: Ron Stouffer
1:30-2:30 Panel: "Media Communications, Healthcare for All, and You"
Presenters: Media Beat/Norman Solomon, On-line networking/Dustin Moore, Beth McConnell, HC4APA/Linda Beckman, Op-Ed News/Rob Kall
Moderator: Judy Gordon
2:30-2:50 Wrap-Up: "All Hands on Deck: Realizing and Capitalizing on Pennsylvania's Federalist Opportunity to Model the Single Payer Solution for the Nation -- tying together PA's HB 1660/SB 300, Congress' HR 506/S. 1169, and HR 676"
Presenters: Marty Schor, "Timeline for Victory 2009"; Chuck Pennacchio, Call-to-Action
2:50-3:00 "Thanks to all"
Presenter: Dr Scott Tyson
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