CNA/NNOC nurses are growing our power – overcoming unprecedented challenges and fierce employer opposition

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As California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee nurses, we are constantly pushing against the treacherous headwinds of a health care industry that is relentlessly focused on profits. When I look at everything we have accomplished during this unprecedented pandemic for our patients and our communities I’m in awe.
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Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses United

ACT UP’s Fearless Activism and Organizing Is a Model for Fighting for Justice

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ACT UP march in New York City
Nurses who cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic know Covid-19 is not the first disease to expose the extreme injustices of our health care system and society. Without our advocacy in coalition with patients and marginalized communities, the U.S. corporate health care industry and government will continue to fail people.
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The Labor of Labor: Forced Birth Is Forced Work

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Mawata Kamara, RN
Nurses know firsthand just how much work goes into giving birth for our patients, especially if we’re labor and delivery nurses or parents ourselves. I’m an emergency room nurse, but I’m also a mom, so I know that the miracle of birth isn’t always so miraculous in the moment. Yes, there’s joy and celebration, but there’s also a lot of pain and hard work.
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Mawata Kamara, RN

Nursing is in the Heart

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RNRN nurses in The Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
In honor of Filipino American History Month, the California Museum, located in Sacramento, is presenting an exhibit entitled ‘California is in the Heart’, which explores the vital role that Filipinx Americans have played in the state’s history.
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More than 100 years of RN power

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Throughout the last 120 years, California Nurses Association has been on the historical and clinical cutting edge of confronting a political economy that values profits over people. Our advocacy expanded nationally with the creation of National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC). The delivery of health care in the United States has undergone dramatic changes in the span of the past 120 years.

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