Videos: Friends of Medicare rally from May

Earlier this month, I finally posted videos from the Friends of Medicare rally for public healthcare that was held at the Alberta Legislature, in Edmonton, on May 5, 2009.

People drove and bussed in from many communities around the province. Along with a variety of speakers, the rally featured a few different musical groups: A rock band who’s name I didn’t catch, Edmonton’s Raging Grannies, and Notre Dame des Bananes.

I didn’t post everything from the rally, but here is what I did put up:

Speakers

• Diana Gibson, researcher.
• Raging Grannies speak on “Two Doors to Healthcare”.
• Jan Buterman, transgendered Albertans and access to gender reassignment surgery (GRS).
• Brian Mason, Alberta NDP leader.
• Hugh MacDonald, Alberta Liberal MLA.
• David Eggen, executive director of Friends of Medicare, presents a petition to the Legislature.

Music

• Edmonton’s Raging Grannies
  • First song.
  • Cutbacks.
  • The Canada Health Act.
• We Shall Not be Moved, sung by everybody at the end of the rally.

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