As Court Showdown Nears, Our Healthcare System Still a Mess
With the approaching Supreme Court showdown on the President Obama’s 2010 health care law (the Affordable Care Act, modeled, of course, on Mitt Romney’s law in Massachusetts), the U.S. healthcare system remains a dysfunctional mess, as nurses bear witness to every day. In late March, […]
Nurses Action at G20 Summit in France Today
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Are you ready for Thursday? INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Are you ready for Thursday? That’s when nurses and other community activists are going to press President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a meaningful financial transaction tax. Nurses from four continents, including a delegation from NNU, will be at the opening of the […]
Special Offer for Nurses | Menopause the Musical in Concert
If you haven’t seen that little musical that took us all by storm a few years ago–Menopause The Musical–here’s your chance to see it in concert. I’m telling you it is so much fun and some of us at Nurse Talk have seen it –well […]
Medicare for All | California Health Care Justice Tour
The Vermont legislature has pioneered a bill creating a path for a universal, publicly funded healthcare system. James Haslam from the Vermont Workers’ Center is coming to California to share their story and inspire Californians to do the same. Donna Smith, featured in the movie […]
Kaiser Mental Health Caregivers Speak Up for Patients | CNA/NNU Sympathy Strike
Mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente speak out about understaffing at Kaiser and its impact on patient care, in advance of a statewide strike. Fighting the good fight. We applaud you for your sympathy strike support California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. This is […]
CNA Members: Rush to Final Weekend of ‘Let Me Down Easy’
Berkeley Rep invites CNA members to save $5 on tickets for the final weekend of Anna Deavere Smith’s smash hit Let Me Down Easy! Anna set the Bay Area ablaze with Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, and in recent years, you’ve seen […]
Sept. 1 = 10,000 Nurses, 61 Events, 21 States, 1 Message…
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 […]
National Day of ACTION – Sept 1, 2011
From our friends at National Nurses United On September 1, nurses and communities in more than 60 cities across the nation will be hosting soup line actions to draw attention to the needs of Main Street, and to an NNU proposed transaction tax on Wall […]