Healthcare Activists To Call For New "Main Street Contract"

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Hundreds of registered nurses and healthcare reform activists will rally outside the US Chamber of Commerce and on Capitol Hill tomorrow to call for a new “program for rebuilding American communities with jobs, healthcare, education, and other urgent needs, funded through a fair tax policy targeted at those on Wall Street who created the economic crisis,” reports National Nurses United, which is co-sponsoring the demonstration with the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare. "We need an alternative vision and an alternative program in America," says NNU Co-President Deborah Burger, RN.  "As the polls and recent special elections have clearly shown, the American people do not want more cuts in our most enduring safety net programs, and they have had enough of 'shared sacrifice' that places all the burden on the families who have already suffered too much. Nurses see the fallout every day and we are ready to chart a new course for a better life for all Americans. It’s time for a new Main Street Contract for the American People." Click here for details.