{"article":{"id":137964,"heading":"THURS. 10\/27: Scores of RNs, Teachers, Working Women Protest to Schwarzenegger","author":"California Nurses Association","created":"2005-10-27 00:33:18","modified":"2005-10-27 21:11:14","last_modified":"Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:11:14","article":"\n
Scores of RNs to Protest Schwarzenegger's Special Election at Corporate-Sponsored Conference on Women Thursday
Schwarzenegger Returns to Scene of Infamous
'Kicking Butts' of Nurses Comment
LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 25 -- The California Nurses
Association, along with local teachers and other working women, will lead
protests against Arnold Schwarzenegger's upcoming special election outside of
the corporate-sponsored Governor's Conference on Women this Thursday, October
27th.
What: RNs Rally to Stop Arnold
Where: Long Beach Convention Center, Pine @ Bay
When: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 27
Press Conference: 8 a.m.
Rally: 10 a.m.
Additional protests subject to last minute changes.
Last year's Governor's Conference on Women marked what many viewed as a
turning point in public perception of Schwarzenegger after he dismissed nurses
protesting roll back of patient safety standards as \"special interests\" and he
boasted that he was \"always kicking their butts.\"
Following that remark, nurses across the state began a series of
protests, targeting the governor's almost-daily fundraising from large
corporate interests. Nurses were also eventually joined by teachers,
firefighters, and a broad spectrum of the public.
\"Schwarzenegger has a history of arrogant and offensive behavior towards
women and has extended that by attacking female-dominated professions,
including nurses and teachers,\" said Deborah Burger, RN, President of the
California Nurses Association.
\"Widespread public outcry against Schwarzenegger's policies ignited at
this very convention last year, and we are here again to encourage
Californians to vote NO in November -- to turn out and vote NO on all of
Arnold Schwarzenegger's corporate-backed propositions.\"
CNA said it will also contrast the role of RNs, real working women and
men who overwhelmingly oppose Schwarzenegger's policies, with the
corporate-sponsored convention.
This year's event is sponsored by many of Schwarzenegger's closest
corporate backers, such as Ameriquest, Safeway, PG&E, and Merck, and also
includes a number of new corporate allies, including British Petroleum,
Northrup Grumman, and Raytheon. \"Schwarzenegger is using the event and the
participants as props to support his package of initiatives that are intended
to hand more power to the governor and his corporate backers at the expense of
nurses and other Californians,\" said Burger.
SOURCE California Nurses Association
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