Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. With world leaders of the G-8 nations fleeing the U.S.’ third largest city by moving their May summit to the rural woods outside Washington, the nation’s largest nurses union will bring Camp David and the G-8 summit back to Chicago for a special event on Friday, May 18.
With the help of Robin Hood’s band of merry women and men, National Nurses United, joined by healthcare, labor and other community activists, and guests from other G-8 nations, will reconstruct Camp David in Chicago and conduct a search for the absent G-8 leaders.
In a public event, the nurses, Robin Hood, and friends, will seek to remind the global leaders, who have abandoned Chicago of the daily plight of their constituents who have been fleeced by the world banks and the 1 percent, of the need to return some of that wealth through a Robin Hood tax on financial speculation.
Activists will begin with a morning forum, open to the press, on the perils of global austerity programs, and how activists around the world are fighting back to improve living standards for working people and stop the attacks on public services. That event will be held at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers.
Beginning at 11 a.m., the nurses and friends will begin a march traveling along portions of Michigan Avenue, East Wacker Drive, and North State Street before ending at the reconstructed site of Camp David.
A centerpiece of the day is the call on world leaders to adopt national and international Robin Hood financial transaction taxes on major trading by banks and other financial institutions to raise revenue critically needed for revitalizing the economic health of the U.S. and other G-8 nations.
Endorsers of May 19 Demonstration in Chicago for a Financial Transaction Tax — Robin Hood Tax:
- ACT V: The End of AIDS
- AFL-CIO
- Amalgamated Transit Union
- ARISE Chicago
- Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
- Canadian Union of Public Employees
- Catholics United
- Center For Media and Democracy
- Chicago Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Chicago Jobs with Justice
- Chicago Progressive Democrats of America
- Chicago Teachers Union
- Citizen Action/Illinois
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Communications Workers of America
- Communications Workers of America Local 4250
- European Federation of Public Service Unions
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- Fearless Leading by Youth (FLY)
- Fédération CGT de la Santé et de l’Action Sociale (France)
- Fédération Santé-Sociaux CFDT (France)
- Friends of the Earth US
- Funzione Pubblica GCIL (Italy)
- Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
- Greenpeace
- Health Care for America Now
- Health GAP
- HK (Denmark)
- IIRON
- International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance
- International Metalworkers’ Federation
- International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation
- International Trade Union Confederation
- International Transport Workers’ Federation
- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Jobs with Justice
- Korean Health and Medical Workers Union
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Metropolitan Tenants Organization
- Move the Money
- National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities
- National Association of Letter Carriers
- National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 11
- National Nurses United
- National People’s Action
- National Union of Public and General Workers Unions (Canada)
- NFL Players Association
- Occupy Chicago
- Oxfam America
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Public Service Alliance of Canada
- Public Services International
- Results UK
- Right to the City
- Robin Hood Tax Campaign (UK)
- Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)
- Stamp Out Poverty (UK)
- UBUNTU Forum (Spain)
- UE Western Region
- UNISON (UK)
- UNITE HERE International Union
- UNITE HERE Local 1
- United Methodist General Board of Church and Society
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- UIC-Graduate Employees Organization
- USAction
- Utility Workers Union of America
Source: http://www.nationalnursesunited.org