Press Releases Nurses to Join March on Wall Street October 5; Demand Wall Street Transaction Tax –

[babsbunny]

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/nurses-to-join-march-on-wall-street-october-5-demand-wall-street-transactio

Nurses to Join March on Wall Street October 5; Demand Wall Street Transaction Tax – an “FTT”

Media Advisory
October 3, 2011

National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of nurses in the US – with 170,000 members, will be represented at the Wall Street March on October 5 by contingents including from Maryland, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, D.C., Illinois and New York. NNU is joining other unions, organizations and community groups in support of Occupy Wall Street. The Wall Street March begins at 5p.

NNU is pressing for a financial transaction tax (FTT) which was in effect in the US from 1914 to 1966. Proponents, including NNU, say hundreds of billions of dollars could be raised annually through even a modest tax rate on financial market trades of stocks, bonds, derivatives, credit default swaps, and similar financial transactions and used to help rebuild America.
In June, NNU members, joined by labor and community activists, rallied in support of such a tax on Wall Street across from the New York Stock Exchange, and outside the U.S. headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.

[midnight]

1. Nurse power..... Now this is going to get fun....

[Hardrada]

2. This will be a shot in the arm for OWS!

[patrice]

3. Solidarity with all nurses!!!

[leftstreet]

4. K&R But shouldn't they be marching on DC demanding Single Payer?

:shrug:

[JDPriestly]

5. The Financial Transaction Tax is an excellent idea.

I support investment, but not gambling. And speed trading, computerized trading makes investment into a mathematical contest that has little to do with building real social and economic wealth.

[Wilms]

6. ^