Tuesday May 15, 2012, 7:41 pm
Why would nurses get mixed up in an issue like that?

RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, says there’s a simple explanation: “The big banks, investment firms and other financial institutions, which ruined the economy with trillion-dollar trades on people’s homes and pensions and similar reckless gambling, should pay for the recovery.”

Nurses have been on the front lines of the crisis, seeing firsthand the health impacts of skyrocketing poverty and record high rates of uninsured Americans.

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 8:17 pm
Good , I think they have a valid point .
Thanks so much .

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 8:32 pm
“The big banks, investment firms and other financial institutions, which ruined the economy with trillion-dollar trades on people’s homes and pensions and similar reckless gambling, should pay for the recovery.” I totally agree, Thanks for posting.

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 8:43 pm
I ask, where are the concerned architects? Engineers? How about the secretaries and office managers? We can all raise the issue at the next retreat

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 9:31 pm
There is a powerful force that's getting in the way of our thriving.

It's a select group of financial elite who are centralizing material wealth and power for their own benefit, while destroying the lives of billions of others. Their worldview is riddled with fear and ignorant of the abundance of nature and the love and interconnectedness that is our essence.

Thrive - http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_movie - you can follow the money to see how the same people are gaining financially in every sector of human life. You can also see how an agenda for global domination is being accomplished, and the kind of deceptive strategies and tactics that are being used to further our suppression.

It can be challenging to confront the cruelty of this global domination agenda, but it’s only by recognizing the true nature of the threats to our freedom that we can be empowered to act effectively. Its up to US to understand & take action - together...

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 9:31 pm
A brilliant initiative! More power to the nurses!! Tx Green B!

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 9:31 pm
Thrive Movie

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 11:00 pm
Dedicated nurses are always looking after us --even when we're not in hospital beds! They appear to be the only people in the medical profession who truly care about the patient's health AND welfare. The administrators care about making a profit and, although most MD's deserve a lot of credit for their ability to diagnose and treat illnesses, they can't seem to be bothered with being advocates for their patients. God bless our caring and dedicated nurses! We owe them a debt of gratitude!

Tuesday May 15, 2012, 11:51 pm
All Hail, the Nurses...Where would we be without them? Thanks!!!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 12:02 am
I agree with all of the above. Nurses are usually very socially aware. The entire system is bad for our health and well-being, and they see the results. I have several good friends who are nurses.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 12:33 am
Must begin somewhere, why not nurses? As has been posted previously, they are on the front lines & are our caregivers in times of illness. ( this is an illness of society)
YAY for Nurses!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 3:38 am
"Nurses have been on the front lines of the crisis, seeing firsthand the health impacts of skyrocketing poverty and record high rates of uninsured Americans.

Their specific tax proposal: a small fee on each trade of stocks, derivatives and other financial instruments. Even at a rate of 0.5 percent or less, such taxes could generate massive revenues to pay for things ordinary people in Chicago and elsewhere urgently need, such as affordable health care and decent schools.

Endorsers of their Friday rally in Daley Center Plaza include 100 union, environmental, and global health groups."
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This is an instance, of how the example of the Occupy Movement has brought and is bringing people to "cross lines" so that Nurses, for example, don't just fight for their wages, various Ethnic Groups don't ONLY fight for the rights of THEIR Ethnic Group, Union Members and Environmentalists recognize they're in the SAME fight, etc. This is a GREAT development and should SCARE THE HELL out of the 1%!

{The idea of the so-called "ROBIN HOOD TAX" is also very popular in Europe. The article says that the Banksters are already, just as you would expect, PRESSURING the Obama Administration to STOP this tax from happening, and in Europe too.....}

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 3:52 am
Not only are they on the front lines for caring, they outshine many in the brains and ideas categories also.
If the credit card companies are now offering small businesses a little gadget for their cell phones where by you can swipe a credit card for ONLY (?!) 2.75%, there is no way on gods green earth this proposal shouldn't get seriously passed!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 5:42 am
Nurses are our true Doctors who really care with compassion and concern and need to be paid well way above what a doctor gets paid for cause a doctor is out for money and nothing else. Nurses need to be given credit for their knowledge cause they have to correct doctors from time to time also. Nurses shouldn't be treated as slaves. Bravo Ellen and I highly agree with you on that.
God Bless our Nurses and don't ripe them off. Quite a few are smarter than doctors.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 6:28 am
Noted

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 7:13 am
Kudos to our nurses. What a super idea and a totally worthwhile endeavour.
Nurses on the front line!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 8:03 am
Yes! Robin Hood and his merry maid nurses...sock it to the ones who caused the collapse, stress, health problems....

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 8:44 am
Noted thanks

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 10:13 am
Bravo to the nurses, thanks Betsy for the post!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 11:34 am
Olivia, I like "Robin Hood [tax] and his merry maid nurses"........ !

The Robin Hood Tax truly DOES "take from the rich {altho very little!} and give to the poor" -- it is just the IDEA of it that is threatening; if that Principle is accepted generally, who KNOWS what it might lead to?????
It is just a teensy percent of profits, they are saying that boo-hoo, the computers will COLLAPSE under the strain of making so many "extra" transactions!
They are desperate and think we will believe ANYthing.....

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 11:40 am
thanks Betsy, glad to see these nurses standing up and lets hope more people will support them

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 12:25 pm
Thank you all so much for the great comments and the kudos expressed to our nurses. Olivia, I love it. "Merry maid nurses".

How about "Brave Band of Songsters". I am just now posting fours songs straight from the creativity of the camps. Pure Occupy.

An oldster like me, while listening to these songs, would like to think for a second that Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley, or, or, or, have returned from their graves.

But no, these songs are pure Occupy with the scorching integrity of Occupy. This is a movement destined to change the planet.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 1:30 pm
Excellent! I'd read that nurses had also been on the front lines of many occupations--there for physical support as well as medical support to the injured. I believe it was in Chicago last fall, where a large group of them sat down and locked arms with other occupiers as police surrounded them. After refusing for move for some time, they were eventually pulled out, one by one, by police and arrested. That moment brought tears to my eyes as I watched it livestreaming; and I called them heroes. These brave souls are caring for others in every sense of the word.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 1:55 pm
As Green Bee says - Nurses have always been onthe front lines .. whether it be social issues or carrying for our soldiers on the battlefront...

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 2:46 pm
Thank you, Lois, for your soul stirring account of the arrest of brave nurses in Chicago last fall. It is bringing tears to my eyes now.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 3:20 pm
A movement of all trades to crush the existing suffocating FEUDAL system!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 4:26 pm
Love it! Good on the nurses!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 5:08 pm
My daughter is a MD. She tells me that nurses are the healers. I cannot get her to join Care 2. She is a doctor, a university professor, and mother of an infant and a toddler, an an Occupier. Her time is filled. So I have print this and mail it to her. She is occupying some where with a medical unit, of course, and I am sure she is cheering for these nurses as I type this comment.

Thank you, everyone, for the fantastic comments.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 5:24 pm
great idea!

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 5:50 pm
Nurses help all around, even in our schools...Bravo!!! Thanks, Betsy for this one.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 7:57 pm
That is awesome. Thank you Green Bee.

Wednesday May 16, 2012, 8:27 pm
Thank you for posting the article Bee. I worked in the medical field all my life and nurses not only carry the burden in the hospital setting but they then go out and support their local community by advocating for many causes and demanding positive changes.They are the GREATEST people you will ever know and work with.

Thursday May 17, 2012, 4:03 am
Thanks.

Thursday May 17, 2012, 4:16 am
Good for them they are great for speaking up

Thursday May 17, 2012, 4:58 am
They are right. In the UK, all the government seems to care about is protecting finance and banking, while casually firing 60.000 Nurses and front line hospital staff!

Thursday May 17, 2012, 9:59 am
NURSES ARE THE BEST!!! Thank to all of them and God Bless!

Friday May 18, 2012, 6:29 am
Kudos to the nurses!!

Friday May 18, 2012, 10:06 am
Noted, thanks.

Saturday May 19, 2012, 7:53 pm
A very good idea. Right on, nurses! Thanks, B.

Monday May 21, 2012, 3:37 am
thank you