Comments on: Marilyn Clement – June 30, 1935 to August 3, 2009

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:09:26 +0000

WE NEED A NATIONWIDE PROTEST TO WASHINGTON DC. WE ARE THE PARTY WITH THE MONEY AND I’M TIRED OF GROUPS NOT ORGANIZING AFTER MANY DONATIONS. I WAS IN NY AND IT WAS EMBARRASSING TO SEE LEST THAN 100 PEOPLE PROTESING, BUT I MARCHED WITH THEM ANYWAY!

WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO GET EVERYONE ON BOARD A BUS??????

By: Tina Carrigan

Tina Carrigan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:29:02 +0000

I just heard…Marilyn did so much for all of us..her legacy will live on in all…she was a wonderful woman.

By: Tony Fransetta

Tony Fransetta — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:21:14 +0000

I first met Marilyn In Tallahassee, Florida when the Alliance for Retired Americans put together an event on Single Payer Health Caere in relation to their Buss trip they did.
She was an inspiration to us all.
I spoke to her on the phone several times one time in paticular was after she had come down with cancer. She was I believe in Va. at her daughters.
None of us can say enough, to continue the fight for Health Care is the right approach.
Tony Fransetta Pres. FLARA

By: matt shotkin

matt shotkin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:34:40 +0000

Marilyn was dedicated and devoted to the cause:

She”s one of the reasons, that I got involved with single payer health

care, and then in turn, I got others like Nadina Crispina involved:

By: Al Sowins

Al Sowins — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:26:51 +0000

All we need is a one line law, “Effective immediately all citizens and resident aliens shall receive the same healthcare extended to members of the US Congress; pro bono.”

Then we pay for it by:
Immediately bringing all our military within our own borders.
Stopping all foreign aid.

Rescinding all “pork” spending resolutions.

Dissolving the Fed and establishing a national bank operated by government employees and without private participation.

Leaving the costs of education and welfare to be absorbed by the states.

Capping personal income from all sources at, say, 250,000. All income in excess of that amount would automatically revert to the government.

Immediately executing all convicted of murder, rape, child molest, narcotics sales, abortion, homosexual acts, etc.

Forcibly deporting every single person who is in this country illegally, and sealing our borders.

Reducing our defense budget by 80% by notifying the bad guys of the world that our future response to any of their nonsense will be nuclear. And then proving our point by turning Tehran and PyongYang
into parking lots.

Refraining from involvement in foreign disputes. Let crazy arabs kill crazy arabs. Not our business.

Dismiss and re-institute the Supreme Court; this time with sane judges.Enforce the Tenth Amendment. Unless the Constitution specifically gives a power to the Congress, that power is reserved to the states or to the people. Thus the end of the departments of education, health and welfare, etc.

Extend senatorial terms to ten years and representatives to five years and thus eliminate unnecessary costs of campaigning.

Restrict the franchise to males over 35 years, who hold degrees, own property, and have no criminal convictions. This will reduce the size of the vote for the democrat party to a total of 123.

Criminalize membership in or support of the ACLU, CFR, Tr1-laterals, NOW, and all other racist, anarchistic, evil cults and sects.

Expropriate the holdings of the Rothschilds and their confederates.

Appoint Lee Kwan Yew as dictator for life.

Then relax, and enjoy a safe and sane world!

By: John "Hai" Knapp

John "Hai" Knapp — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:12:49 +0000

Katie, those are my words too. I too have grieved her loss. But we will keep this fire burning bright; affordable healthcare will be our right. HR-676. I have hoped I would meet her at the 2008 Strategy Conference. However, I will use same words I used in a song for another friend;

I wish that you could stay, but I know you had to pass,
your trials are now over, eternal joy at last,
in my heart you will leave a loving legacy,
one that your friends and family will see.

By: wisdom on death at adrienne maree, the luscious satyagraha

wisdom on death at adrienne maree, the luscious satyagraha — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:18:31 +0000

[...] in a motorcycle accident this past weekend, while i was off celebrating love. another good friend, marilyn clement, a warrior in the fight for universal health care from her apartment in manhattan (i sat on her [...]

By: Marlena

Marlena — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:44:01 +0000

Marilyn is too stong a force for justice, for single payer healthcare, a woman’s right to choose, for farmwworkers rights, for overcoming the ravages of racism, for loving, persistant support for women & men to not remain a presence within each of us.

We love you, Marilyn.

By: Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:03:03 +0000

I met Marilyn while helping to organize the PA single-payer movement, and spoke at her conference in NY around 2004. Since then, we’ve kept in touch during the fight for a just healthcare system. I’m terribly saddened to learn of her passing–she’s been such a force for change, and the Conyers effort would be little more than paper without the force of Marilyn’s organizing and conviction.

We’ll all miss her here in PA.

By: John "Hai" Knapp

John "Hai" Knapp — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:02:23 +0000

Liz, that is exactly how I feel about this. Marilyn has worked very hard for bringing about social justice, especially healthcare justice. Her loss is great, but we will continue her work. We will win HR-676 for single payer.

I will continue my work, writing songs for healthcare justice.