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Petition Launched in Advance of Nurses’ Rally and Lobby Day

Posted by Donna Smith - S... on May 31, 2011 - 3:57pm

When the nurses come to Washington, D.C., next week, there will be other advocates and activists for social justice seeking support for some of the same issues and bills.  The vision NNU’s leaders and members have for a more just nation in which Main Street issues matter – like good jobs, education, healthcare, and a healthy environment – is a vision that embraces many issues our allies share and are working to support.

This is an action that takes just moments to complete, but has the potential to change the future. 

A petition drive has been launched by several groups, asking the Senate Democratic Caucus to support the DNC Afghanistan Withdrawal Resolution and Sanders’ American Health Security Act of 2011 (S.915).  To sign the letter,  http://www.pdamerica.org/forms/sign/Sign-Letter-Senate-Democratic-Ca].

This letter will be distributed to the members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on June 7, as part of the National Nurses United  June 7 Rally and Lobby Day. (If you can’t make it to DC for the rally and lobby day, then please mark your calendars for the June 7 National Call-in Day, and find more information on that here: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=48701501].

Many of our allies in the progressive movement have endorsed and signed this letter—we hope you’ll join them.  [Sign here http://www.pdamerica.org/forms/sign/Sign-Letter-Senate-Democratic-Ca].

Our allies have a goal to gather at least 25,000 signatures between now and midnight, June 5.  [Click here to sign http://www.pdamerica.org/forms/sign/Sign-Letter-Senate-Democratic-Ca], and then please post this to your Facebook page and forward this email to your likeminded friends and family members.

Tim Carpenter, of the Progressive Democrats of America, noted, “Bin Laden is dead; the Afghanistan mission is accomplished. It is time to bring our troops and war dollars home and start addressing the very real hardships facing Americans, including providing comprehensive healthcare for all and the spiraling costs of healthcare.”



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