Before the main event, we began as is our wont, with a demonstration on a busy street corner (Commonwealth & Harbor). Here you see Judith Kaluzny, Jane Rands (who was a big help with the whole event), Dr. Dave Sonneborn (a microbiologist and clean money activist), Dr. Roger Dittman (professor emeritus of physics at Cal State Fullerton) and anticorporate Unitarian activist Joe Tyndall.

The League of Women Voters of North Orange County, who co-sponsored the event, got us this great room at the Fullerton Public Library, where a couple dozen of us watched our documentary "The Healthcare Solution", preceded by the Austin Lounge Lizards' humorous animated video "Pirates of the Healthcarribean", and followed by Joe Tyndall's pugnacious new powerpoint presentation which puts the healthcare crisis into the larger context of people-versus-corporations.

Professor Dittman then gave a fascinating talk about other ways our healthcare system needs to be reformed and improved.

We spent, as usual, half an hour sitting around answering questions and plotting about what each person in the room could do to help make single-payer a reality. Some of the League women are planning to purchase the video and have house parties themselves for SB 840. Here are some of us signing the petition and getting literature.

fterwards, Vern, Joe, Dr. Sonneborn, Dr. Dittman, and the young Democratic activist Carl Weibel went to legendary Fullerton hangout "The Olde Shippe" and talked over European beers long into the night, even missing Jon Stewart.