Wendell Potter has emerged as one of the most important truth tellers in the current health care debate.

After a 20-year career as a corporate executive, Potter left his job last year as the head of communications for one of the nation's largest health insurers and began explaining how the insurance industry is warping the debate in order to protect profits.

In appearances on dozens of television programs, Potter has revealed the cynical manipulations of the discourse by corporations that meticulously seek to deny care to those who need it the most.

On Sept. 12, Potter will be at Fighting Bob Fest at the Sauk County Fairgrounds along with other advocates for real reform: U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Tom Harkin, Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin and Gwen Moore, populist Jim Hightower and activists from around the nation and across Wisconsin.

On Sept. 11, at the Barrymore Theatre, investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill (who blew the lid off the high crimes and misdemeanors of Blackwater, the nefarious defense and intelligence contractor) and Greg Palast will headline a pre-Bob Fest event that will focus on assaults on our liberties.

For all the details on Bob Fest events, visit www.fightingbobfest.org and don't miss the opportunity on Sept. 11 and 12 to send a message to Washington and the corporations that own that city: We have just begun to fight!

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