Nurses Gather at NATO Summit to Demand Government Fund Health, Not Death

Allison Kilkenney @ Truthout - Casey Hobbs, a registered nurse for 37 years and part of Nurse Talk Radio, traveled to Chicago from San Francisco in order to protest for the creation of a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street. Participants wore red National Nurses United (NNU) shirts accompanied by green Robin Hood masks and hats in keeping with the theme of a small trading tax in order to raise badly needed revenue.

"[It's] less than half a penny tax on financial transactions. With the billions of dollars we'd get from that, we're gonna heal America. We're going to do that by providing Medicare for all, we're going to provide college educations, we're going to rebuild our infrastructure and put people back to work and give back to the 99 percent."  Read more.

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