Healthcare Activists To Call For New "Main Street Contract"
Monday, June 6, 2011(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Hundreds of registered nurses and healthcare reform activists
will rally outside the US Chamber of Commerce and on Capitol Hill tomorrow to
call for a new “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,” reports
National Nurses United, which is co-sponsoring the demonstration with the Labor
Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare. "We need an alternative vision and an
alternative program in America," says NNU Co-President Deborah Burger, RN.
"As the polls and recent special elections have clearly shown, the American
people do not want more cuts in our most enduring safety net programs, and they
have had enough of 'shared sacrifice' that places all the burden on the families
who have already suffered too much. Nurses see the fallout every day and we are
ready to chart a new course for a better life for all Americans. It’s time for
a new Main Street Contract for the American People." Click
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