Nurses Union Will Picket and Protest President Obama's Chamber of Commerce Visit Today

[Better Believe It]

National Nurses United Protests Obama's Chamber of Commerce Visit


Where
H Street side of Lafayette Park, H and 16th ST NW, Washington, DC

When
Feb 07 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

The nurses of National Nurses United/California Nurses Association and other friends of labor protest outside the Chamber of Commerce headquarters where President Obama is addressing those assembled inside. “Working people will not be deceived,” says NNU’s Donna Smith. “The Chamber of Commerce represents Wall Street and corporate greed, not working people. It encourages employers to roll back rights and living standards for working people. It promotes the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, and spends hundreds of millions of dollars at home to influence Congress to achieve tax breaks for big business and block reforms for working people.”

[msongs]

1. Nurses know how to treat republicans lol nt

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[jschurchin]

3. They really should reconsider

changing the name to The Chamber of Fucking the American Worker. It really would be more appropriate.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. good for them!! Go Nurses!! K&R

:patriot:

[fasttense]

5. Every working American should be there.

But only the nurses have the guts.

[bvar22]

6. Solidarity!

"We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

*The right of every family to a decent home;

*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

*The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

Americas own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens.

For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world."--FDR

"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone


"By their works you will know them."

[leftstreet]

7. K&R

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. The shouldn't interfere while the boss is negotiating with his bosses.

[burrowowl]

9. Good on them!

[Starry Messenger]

10. k&r