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DESCRIPTION:Nurses from Four Continents to Step Up Call Nov. 3 on President Obama, 
 Other World Leaders for Tax on Wall Street\n \nJoined by AFL-CIO, Occupy 
 Wall Street participants, community groups in major actions at G-20 Summit 
 in France, Washington, and West Coast\n \nNational Nurses United, joined by 
 the AFL-CIO and community activists, including participants from the Occupy 
 Wall Street movement, will protest outside the U.S. Treasury Department in 
 Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 3 to press President Obama and Treasury 
 Secretary Timothy Geithner for a meaningful financial transaction tax (FTT) 
 to help heal the U.S. and join the growing global movement for an FTT.\n 
 \nOn that same day, nurses from four continents, including a delegation 
 from NNU, will be on hand at the opening of the G-20 summit of world 
 leaders in France to demonstrate how to “inject an FTT” to resuscitate 
 the ailing global economy.\n \nNNU, the largest U.S. professional 
 association and union of nurses, will also join with actor and Oxfam 
 Ambassador Bill Nighy, the global union federation Public Services 
 International, International Trade Union Confederation, and World Wildlife 
 Fund at a press conference in Cannes to call for a global FTT, which is 
 expected to be on the summit agenda. FTT measures have found support in 
 numerous nations.\n \nProtests are also planned in Los Angeles and San 
 Francisco as part of the international day of action.\n \nNovember 3 
 actions:\n ■ G-20 Summit: 9:45 a.m., Salon Palm, Casino Palm Beach, Place 
 Franklin Roosevelt - Pointe de la Croisette, Cannes, France  (location of 
 G20 media accreditation centre)\n ■ Washington, D.C.: Rally, Lafayette 
 Square, 11:30 a.m., followed by march to U.S. Treasury Department. Nurses 
 head to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress at 3 p.m.\n ■ Los Angeles: March 
 from OccupyLA site, 11 a.m., First and Main, rally, plaza adjacent to U.S. 
 Bank, W. 633 5th St.\n ■ San Francisco: March 11  a.m., from 101 Market, 
 across from the Federal Reserve Bank, rally at 12 noon, Wells Fargo bank 
 headquarters, 464 California St.\n \n“It is long past time for Secretary 
 Geithner and President Obama to get on board with other world leaders in 
 supporting this common-sense approach to raise badly needed revenues to 
 help fund the critical programs we need to revive the U.S. and other global 
 economies,” said NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro, who will speak at 
 the G-20 press conference in Cannes.\n \nNNU has been campaigning since 
 early spring for an FTT, essentially a sales tax on trades of stocks, 
 bonds, derivatives, and other financial transactions mainly targeting the 
 big banks and investment firms whose reckless activities caused the current 
 economic crisis. As much as $350 billion annually could be raised by a 
 meaningful FTT, with the revenues available for such needs as good jobs, 
 healthcare for all, and funding for quality public education.\n \nThe Obama 
 administration has been an obstacle for the Wall Street tax, and in the 
 face of a growing international demand for other nations, especially in 
 Europe, to adopt their own FTT, Geithner has lobbied European finance 
 ministers to oppose the FTT.\n \nU.S. nurses see an emergency in the 
 effects of enduring economic hardship in their communities, as they 
 describe a profound and broad decline in the health status of the U.S. 
 population. Recent data linking home foreclosures in four major U.S. states 
 to a range of serious illnesses, from stress and deprivation, underscore 
 nurse concern. Others are sounding an alarm in the wake of the economic 
 crisis and social fallout.\n \n###\n\nMain Street, NationwideNews\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/02/18696828.php
SUMMARY:Nurses from Four Continents Call on Obama, Other World Leaders for Tax on Wall Street
LOCATION:■ San Francisco: March 11  a.m., from 101 Market, across from the Federal 
 Reserve Bank, rally at 12 noon, Wells Fargo bank headquarters, 464 
 California St.
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