Close to 1,000 protesters picketed the Conservative Party Conference in Red Deer November 7, against health care cuts, in particular the closing of Alberta Hospital and the H1N1 vaccination fiasco in Alberta. Unionists, seniors and many others united in the biggest protest Red Deer has ever seen, organized by the Friends of Medicare and Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, who both provided buses from Edmonton and Calgary. United Nurses, CUPE and CEP also had large contingents, and CUPW was there as well, with Brian Henderson, Greg McMaster, and Trish Schlag carrying the flags, along with friends. Picketers broke through police lines at the Conference hotel, the Capri, to march through the parking lot, briefly blocking the entrance way (thanks CEP!) before a strategic retreat to a nearby park, where speeches were delivered before the march.
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