Rally at Burnside Park in Providence

Yesterday I went to Moveon.Org's REAL public option, National Day of Action rally (co-sponsered by Ocean State Action and Progressive Democrats of America) at Burnside Park in Providence. Since I am an Aquarian idealist and passionate about health care reform I visualized mobs of people overflowing the park and spilling out into the streets with the smell of revolution in the air. While I was disappointed that a small group of 80 people or so showed up the organizers were pleased with that number since it was a weekday afternoon and people are working etc. After the rally a small delegation went to the offices of Sen. Reed and Whitehouse. While we know that the Rhode Island Senators and Representatives are in favor of Health Care Reform we need to make sure that they don't drop the ball and cave in to special interest groups. In a related note, President Obama gave a speech about this issue scheduled right after America's got Talent or some such program, which proves he knows where the mind set of the American people is at. And of course the media's breaking headline the next day was Obama's remark about the "stupid" action of the Cambridge police. Any issue that corporate America can do to take the public's eye off the Health Reform issue and create divisiveness they will sieze upon.