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Friday, May 18, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Nurses rally and play Robin Hood

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Nurses rally and play Robin Hood:


Nurses rally and play Robin Hood

Demand a Robin Hood Tax to pay for health care.

New police  SUVs
Thousands of police and Sheriff's deputies occupied the loop area, their sparkling new SUV stretching for blocks along downtown streets while  nurses and their supporters filled Daley Plaza this afternoon.

There was a great atmosphere of militant solidarity as speaker after speaker denounced the NATO Summit and austerity measures and budget cuts to health care, education and other social services and demanded that