Nurses to President-Elect Trump: Time to Heal America

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National Nurses United today called on President-Elect Donald Trump to follow up on his calls for national unity by reassuring immigrant families that they do not have to fear deportation, and renouncing some who have used the election outcome as a pretext to threaten minorities or promote hate crimes.
National Nurses United
Nov 10, 2016

Broad Action to Rally, Press Congress November 17 To Reject the Trans Pacific Partnership

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In the wake of a national election that activists say demonstrates the ever-greater urgency of grassroots mobilization, a major amalgamation of labor, environmental, healthcare, consumer and other advocacy groups will rally in Washington November 17 to demand the lame duck Congress reject the fatally flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership pact.
Nov 9, 2016

International Nurse News Round-Up

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See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United

Registered Nurse Response Network Sends Nurse Volunteers on Second Deployment to Standing Rock

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National Nurses United (NNU)’s Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a national network of volunteer nurses, will deploy a second team of RN volunteers to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation—to help with existing medical and first aid support for land and water protectors—NNU announced today.
RN Response Network
Nov 7, 2016

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Returns to California to Campaign for Prop 61

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Yes on Prop 61/Californians for Lower Drug Prices announced today that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, in partnership with the California Nurses Association, will speak at two public rallies in California on Monday, November 7. Sanders will appear in downtown Los Angeles in Pershing Square at 10:30AM and at a second rally in Sacramento at the California State Capitol that afternoon at 1:00PM. 

California Nurses Association
Nov 7, 2016

Here’s how to send a message to Big Pharma

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During this election season, Californians have been relentlessly carpet-bombed by TV ads paid for by three dozen super-rich drug companies to defeat Proposition 61.
Senator Bernie Sanders writing in The Sacramento Bee