Nurses Plan Mass Demonstration Tuesday
Friday, June 3, 2011(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Hundreds of registered nurses from across America will gather
outside the White House, picket the US Chamber of Commerce, and rally on Capitol
Hill on Tuesday,
June 7 to call for a new “Main Street Contract for the American
People,” reports National Nurses United. The day of action – sponsored by NNU and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Healthcare – will propose a program for “rebuilding American
communities with jobs, healthcare, education, and other urgent needs, funded
through a fair tax policy targeted at those on Wall Street who created the
economic crisis.” Demonstrators will gather at 11A in Lafayette Square to
picket the US Chamber of Commerce (click here
for map) and will then move to Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill (click here for map) at 12:15P, where they
will hear speeches from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Senators Bernie
Sanders and Barbara Boxer, Representative Dennis Kucinich and noted author John
Nichols. Click
here for more information.