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Robin Hood- UN Experts Urge G8 Leaders to Adopt a Robin Hood Tax as a 'Human Rights Imperative' May 15, 2012Thanks to the UN Human Rights media team for this release. G-8 / EU: “A global financial transaction tax, a human rights imperative now more than ever” As European Union Finance Ministers meet on 15 May to coincide with the G-8 Summit in Camp David, a group of United Nations independent experts urged the EU to take the lead in promoting the adoption of a g […]
- Nurses Push Tax on Trades to Help Sick May 15, 2012Thanks to Sarah Anderson Director the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C for this blog. Of all the street actions leading up to the NATO summit, the one that might seem most perplexing is a nurses’ rally for a tax on securities trades. Financial markets are pretty remote from hospital bedsides, you might think. W […]
- Chicago Mayor Emanuel Agrees to Let Nurses Rally in Daley Plaza May 15, 2012Nurses Praise Tom Morello, Public Support for May 18 Rally National Nurses United today welcomed a decision by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and city officials to reverse efforts to block a planned rally by nurses, and community supporters, joined by eminent musician Tom Morello, at Daley Plaza, May 18. Read more ... […]
- NNU Director Talks Robin Hood Tax with Bill Moyers May 14, 2012Moyers & Company, a current affairs program featuring Bill Moyers and airing on PBS stations nationwide, had a segment on Sunday evening with RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country, with 170,000 members. The interview focuses on the union's cal […]
- UN Experts Urge G8 Leaders to Adopt a Robin Hood Tax as a 'Human Rights Imperative' May 15, 2012
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17 Princeton professors, led by Albert Einstein, have signed a letter to Pres Roosevelt urging him to end US neutrality http://t.co/rQD7vqFo 9 hours ago
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