Nurses Condemn Chicago Mayor Emanuel for Arrest Of Nurses, Medical Volunteers at Occupy Chicago

http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/nurses-condemn-chicago-mayor-emanuel-for-arrest-of-nurses-medical-volunteers-at-occupy-chicago/

Posted on October 24, 2011 by paulgarver

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NNU first aid station in Chicago just before the arrests Saturday night


RNs to Picket Mayor’s Office Monday 24 October at 10 am

Registered nurses from across the USA condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown Saturday night at the Occupy Chicago protest.

The National Nurses Union (NNU) is asking supporters to call Mayor Emanuel’s office at 312-744-5000 and demand they immediately drop all charges against the nurses and other protesters, and stop the harassment and arrests of the nurses and others peacefully exercising their free speech rights. Nurses will also picket the mayor’s office at 10 a.m. Monday morning, at City Hall at the LaSalle entrance.

Nurse leaders of National Nurses United who set up a nurses’ station to provide basic first aid to Chicago protesters – as NNU has done peacefully in five other cities across the U.S. – were among the some 130 people arrested by Chicago police. The police also tore down the first aid station, and arrested scores of others who had peacefully assembled to support the station.

“Even in wartime, combatants respect the work of nurses and other first responders. Yet Mayor Emanuel and Chicago seem to care as little about that tradition as they do in protecting the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.” said NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro. “These arrests are disgraceful and unconscionable, and will not deter our nurses from continuing this mission, setting up the station again, and continuing to support the protests.”


FULL story at link.

the teachers unions backed him into a corner and it looks like the nurses have him by his balls.

... gives him that much more bravado to act like a major douchebag.

"Medics who treated protesters injured during pro-democracy rallies in Bahrain and who say they were then tortured during interrogation to extract false confessions have been sentenced in Bahrain's military court to up to 15 years in prison."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10755760

Although we're not there yet, there seem to be fewer and fewer reasons to feel smug about living in the "land of the free."

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