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This video was conceived by John Sellers and Agit-Pop and produced and directed by Church of Great Rain — Adrienne Silvey-Mildon & David Godsey. Shot and edited by Eric Perlman.
People generally find it notable when the Founding Fathers show up at your rallies.
And when Agit-Pop and the Campaign for Fair Elections sent Benjamin Franklin and friends to razz BP’s major lobbying firm, the Washington Post stood up and took notice.
In one of the cooler Agit-Pop actions in a while, the framers stood guard at the biggest fundraising hot spots in DC – and caught more than a few Congressmen taking their cues from Big Money, getting major press attention along the way.
Last Tuesday March 9th Agit-Pop and Health Care for America Now conducted a Mass Citizen’s Arrest of the insurance industry’s lobbying arm AHIP at the Ritz-Carlton in DC. We Deputized 4,000 reform-warriors and collared some insurance criminals to tell Congress to end their support of a broken health care system.
On friday, Agit-Pop and the Billionaires for Wealthcare carried the rising tide of support for the Public Option into the very heart of the insurance industry – in song!
In the latest Agit-Pop – Billionaires collaboration, we infiltrated the closing keynote of the AHIP insurance industry conference and serenaded their leading pollster.
The guerrilla musical, set to ‘Tomorrow’ from the musical Annie, immediately went viral, appearing on the front page of Huffington Post, CBS.com and Rachel Maddow called it “the single most unexpected turn of events yet in the fight over health reform.”
Yesterday it hit #2 on YouTube’s most Most Popular Videos, was shown on CNN’s Situation Room last night, and even Ashton Kutcher tweeted us. 🙂
Stay tuned for more from the Billionaires and Agit-Pop!
–John, Andrew, Andy, Avery, Duncan and the whole Agit-Pop! team.
ps. a huge shoutout is owed to all (singers, lyricists, name tag hackers, grass-roots advocates, video editors, secret camerapeople, crash-pad hosters, and the lady who waived our restocking fee at the Best Buy, as well as Pollster Bill McInturf himself) who made this action possible.