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June 24, 2011

Thousands of Nurses Rally for Financial Tax on Wall Street 
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Amidst the new setbacks for public workers across the country, thousands
of nurses have staged a protest on Wall Street demanding a new tax on
the financial sector. The nurses and other public workers are calling on
banking giants to pay a small fee on transactions involving trades,
derivatives and other financial instruments as a way to boost public
coffers while also curbing speculative actions that caused the nation's
financial crisis. National Nurses United Executive Director Rose Ann De
Moro addressed the crowd.

Ann De Moro: "Just like working people pay taxes on all of their
purchases, these yo-yos who buy and sell and buy and sell our country
should have to pay a tax on that. That money, a very minimum tax could
amount to a least $350 billion that can go back to our committee, go
back to jobs, go back to health care."

Among the signs carried by nurses was one reading, "Heal America, Tax
Wall Street."



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