"SiCKO" Screening Wraps Up Month of Healthcare Actions

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Today’s free screening of “SiCKO” – introduced by HR 676 author Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) – is part of the AFL-CIO Health Care Campaign's Spring Lift-Off Action Plan, with hundreds of Labor Councils nationwide focusing on this issue during the month of April. Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore applies his usual sharp-edged satirical style to America's dysfunctional healthcare system, using humor to tell compelling stories of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage. More than just a film, the documentary has become a stunningly effective organizing tool as healthcare advocates have used it as to enrage, educate and mobilize activists across the country. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch; the screening is presented by the DC Labor FilmFest and co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO Department of Professional Employees, the California Nurses Association, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, OPEIU and USW.