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IPS Director John Cavanagh, joined dozens of leaders of unions and other public interest organizations and thousands of others to protest the major lobby that is blocking real health care reform in Congress. They rallied and marched to a Washington hotel where America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which represents all the corporate heavies in the health industry, was plotting their next steps. The demonstration is being organized by Health Care for America NOW!, a national grassroots campaign for quality, affordable health care. This coalition asked the directors of about 100 groups to risk arrest at the event. I will be joined by Institute for Policy Studies board member Barbara Ehrenreich, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and other allied group leaders.