Saturday, September 3, 2011

Nurses' Imaginative Tactics Breathe Life into Progressives: Make Wall Street Pay for the Crisis It Created

from www.alternet.org

"Few professions bring workers face-to-face with struggling citizens like nursing. Every day they see stressed and malnourished children, unemployed Americans whose COBRA has run out, and cancer survivors who can no longer afford their medications. Accordingly, nurses know what's up. Literally and figuratively, they have their thumb on the pulse of unemployed, uninsured, and financially unstable Americans.

On September 1, members of National Nurses United held a national day of action to take a stand against the corporate greed that they see hurting Americans every day. Thousands of nurses and other supporters gathered in 61 Congressional offices in 21 states for a wide variety of colorful actions, from rallies to food drives to blues concerts. In Boston a "town crier" in period costume made an appearance, while Minnesotans got to hear from a larger-than-life Michele Bachmann puppet."  READ MORE.

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