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Michigan Fight for Main Street launch on Sept 1st
09.05.2011
On September 1st, registered nurses in Muskegon, Mt. Pleasant, Jackson and Marquette joined their counterparts in 20 other states holding soup kitchens, food drives and other events with a single message for members of Congress: it’s time for Wall Street corporations to pay to heal the damage they’ve done to Main Street communities.
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Press in Michigan
“Michigan Nurses Call For A ‘Healing Tax’ On Wall Street,” Public News Service-Michigan (online and radio distribution), http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/22006-1
The Tony Trupiano Show (radio): MNA President Jeff Breslin was on live Thursday morning: http://www.1310wdtw.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=1&podcast=FirstShift&selected_podcast=0901seg5Breslin_1314881429_12419.mp3
“Nurses Protest in 60 Cities, Demanding Tax on Wall Street,” Labor Notes, http://labornotes.org/2011/09/nurses-protest-60-cities-demanding-tax-wall-street
JACKSON
“Residents, members of state nurses union call on lawmakers to tax Wall Street to pull country out of recession,” Jackson Citizen Patriot, http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/09/residents_members_of_state_nur.html
“Nurses Hold Soup Kitchen Rallies,” WLNS-TV, http://www.wlns.com/story/15376152/nurses-hold-soup-kitchen-rallies
MT. PLEASANT
“Mid-Michigan nurses to collect food at CMU tailgating,” Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun, (front page in print edition) http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/09/01/news/doc4e5eb8e5d7893595800562.txt
MUSKEGON
“Nurses, gathered in downtown Muskegon, hope Wall Street will heal 'Main Street,'” Muskegon Chronicle,
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/09/nurses_hope_wall_street_tax_wi.html
MARQUETTE
“Nurses Rally in Marquette,” WLUC-TV6, http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?list=~%5Chome%5Clists%5Csearch&id=658686
“Nurses Pushing Congress,” ABC 5/10-TV, http://www.abc10up.com/news.php?id=2562
“‘Tax Wall Street’: Local nurses spearhead rally,” Marquette Mining Journal, http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/566481/-Tax-Wall-Street---Local--nurses-spearhead-rally.html
BLOG HITS
http://bloggingformichigan.com/2011/09/01/tax-wall-street-to-heal-main-street/(front page)
http://michiganliberal.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=18343
http://www.progressmichigan.org/blog/2011/09/tax-wall-street-to-heal-main-street.html
