This report from National Nurses United celebrates widespread solidarity among nurses with the economic justice cause of the Occupy Wall Street movement. NNU is calling for a tax on Wall Street, and nurses across the US are setting up first aid facilities for the demonstrators that are putting their bodies where their beliefs are, showing solidarity by camping in public squares.
From the Council of Presidents: “We kicked off the month with an unprecedented series of events across the country on Sept. 1 to call for a Wall Street Transaction Tax, our National Day of Action. It was a beautiful sight to see. Nurses and community members in 21 states hosted every kind of soup kitchen, rally, food, clothing, and school supplies drive, you name it, to call attention to the suffering of people on Main Street. Most importantly, we called out our Congressional representatives by asking them to endorse our Wall Street tax. “Which side are you on? Main Street’s or Wall Street’s?” thousands of nurses questioned.”