This just in from our friends and National Nurses United. Pass it on to your friends and colleagues:

10,000 Nurses & Main Street Residents to Converge at 61 Congressional Offices in 21 States on Sept. 1 with 1 Message: Tax Wall Street to Heal America

RNs to sponsor soup kitchens, street theater, speak outs on the need for jobs, healthcare, education, housing – and outline plan to pay for it cite Wall Street contributions to legislators while home districts in crisis.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 10,000 nurses and community participants will join actions in 21 states Thursday, September 1 demanding action on the economic crisis to heal America. They will call on senators and Congress members in their local district offices Thursday  to pledge to “support a Wall Street transaction tax that will raise sufficient revenue to make Wall Street pay for the devastation it has caused on Main Street.”

LEFT: National Nurses say TAX WALL STREET in Times Square – August 2011

Events, from soup kitchens to help feed the hungry, to community speak outs, to street theater are planned from urban centers like Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Orlando, to smaller towns, such as Corpus Christi, Texas, Marquette, Mich., and Dayton, Ohio. National Nurses United, the largest U.S. union of nurses, is sponsoring the actions. Creative events will include a town crier in Boston reading a litany of Wall Street transgressions against America, 8-foot tall puppets, and flash mobs.

Nurses will visit home offices of Republicans and Democrats, with a common message: American families are hurting, and they need jobs, healthcare, housing, quality education, nutrition, and a secure retirement. Read more…