Happy election week! Whole Washington is continuing to gather signatures for I-1471 to get universal healthcare on the ballot statewide. But does your ballot already have a Whole Washington supporter on it? As you fill out your ballot, check out these candidates for office who have endorsed or cosponsored at least one version of the Washington...
Author: Lisa Canar
🍎 A letter from the Campaign Director – Whole Washington forges ahead
Happy Friday movement for healthcare justice! How are you all doing? It’s been a hell of a campaign. With signatures due on December 30th, we still have just about two months to go, making that May 7th campaign launch feel all the longer time ago. Our current signature count is just a hair above 73,000...
🍎 Join the Movement for Universal Healthcare
Weekly Volunteer Meeting Please join us tonight at 7:00 PM for our weekly campaign-wide working meeting. Bring your ideas for a dream campaign, your questions, your inspiration, and your readiness to continue the fight for universal healthcare. We’re in it to win it, now and forever! Support Medicare for All Whole Washington is just one of many state-level...
🍎 Join the Fight for Universal Healthcare
Help Us Grow the Movement Election cycles come and go, but to win universal healthcare, we have to hold the line! Whole Washington is a grassroots organization, made up of volunteers putting in what they can. We are more than a campaign; we’re a movement. The bigger our movement, the stronger we are, both for Washington...
🍎 Here’s How You Can Show Up for Healthcare Justice
Please mark your calendars for October 7-9, for a national weekend of action for abortion rights, led by the Women’s March. Seattle: October 8, 12:30 PM, Cal Anderson Park Vancouver: October 8, 12:00 PM, Esther Short Park Spokane: October 8, 2:00 PM, Riverfront Park Whole Washington will be there to collect signatures and show solidarity as we head into the...
🍎 Abortion is Healthcare
Abortion access is healthcare, and the fight for reproductive justice is part and parcel with the fight for healthcare justice. Mark your calendars for a weekend of action, October 7-9, led by the Women’s March, to rise against the threat of a nationwide abortion ban that Republican legislators have proposed. You can find the nearest rally here, and if...
🍎 Can You Commit to Just 20 Signatures This Week?
Just Doing the Math If everyone in our contact list collected just one petition sheet each, we will meet our goal of 400,000 signatures. As a movement, we rely on all of our collective hard work, but the more volunteers we have, the easier that work becomes. We can put healthcare on the ballot if...
🍎 Labor Day, Solidarity Week
Lend Us a Shift, We’ll Lend You Petition Sheets Happy Labor Day! Whole Washington is still hard at work, and it’s time to kick into full gear to get the 400,000 signatures we need by December. We need your help today! If you can lend us just two hours of your time today collecting signatures, you can help...
🍎 Movie Nights and More
Greetings volunteers! As we slowly head toward fall, we’re picking up the pace. This week, we have an exciting movie fundraiser and plenty of opportunities to gather signatures, but first, how many sigs have we collected so far? Weekly Signature Count: 48,208 We’re just over twelve percent! Let’s keep the momentum going and see if...
🍎 Beat the Heat With Universal Healthcare
Summer is still hot in most of Washington! As we go out to collect signatures, remember to stay cool and hydrate regularly. As a grassroots movement, it’s important to remember that our fight is a long one, made of a thousand small victories and a lot of groundwork, and we’re in this fight together. Together,...