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NewsBriefs:Sept CX 10/27/09 11:52 AM Page 6 CNA/NNOC 2009-2011 Board of Directors* Officers: Council of Presidents: Deborah Burger, Geri Jenkins, Malinda Markowitz, and Zenei Triunfo-Cortez Treasurer: Martha Kuhl Secretary: Margie Keenan Region 1 Veronica Rocha Region 2 Janice Webb Region 3 Sherri Stoddard Region 4 Carol Koelle Region 5a Christina Swift Region 5b Bonnie Martin Region 6a Kathy Daniel Region 6b Debbie Cuaresma Region 7 DeAnn McEwen Region 8a David Welch Region 8b Kathy Dennis Region 8c Cathy Kennedy Region 9a Lauri Hoagland Region 9b Mirthia Kaufman Region 9c Trande Phillips Region 9 d Kathy Donahue Region 10a John Trites Region 10b Greg Miller Region 10c Lorna Grundeman Region 11a Robert Marth, Jr. Region 11b Alicia Torres Region 11c Michelle Gutierrez-Vo Region 12a Allen Fitzpatrick Region 12b Genel Morgan Region 12c Diane Koorsones Region d 12 Maureen Dugan Region 13 Brenda Langford Region 14 Cokie Giles PASNAP Patricia Eakin * All members are working RNs 6 REGISTERED NURSE retary of the New South Wales Nurses' Asso- Above: RN leaders Jean Ross, Malinda ciation in Australia. Markowitz, and Beth Piknick address the In addition to distinguished speakers, RNs convention about the merits of a national also attended courses on a variety of ways to RN union. Below: Australian RN union leader act as patient advocates, handwrote post- Judith Kiejda and Canadian RN union leader cards to their Congressional representatives Linda Silas debunk myths about their in support of CNA/NNOC's national ratio and countries' single-payer healthcare systems. rights legislation and of EFCA, and had the chance to learn which health information technologies were in use at their facilities. The convention culminated with CNA/NNOC RN delegates approving a resolution affirming their commitment to joining You must become ignorant of all you've been taught United American N urses and And be, instead, bewildered! Massachusetts nurses to form Run from what's comfortable and profitable. National Nurses United. "Let it Run, run, run! be known that this was a unaniIf you drink those sweet liqueurs you'll spill mous vote on this resolution," The springwater of your real life. said Deborah Burger, RN and a Forget safety member of the CN A/NNOC Live where you fear to live. Council of Presidents. "This is Be notorious truly a historic moment and I Destroy your reputation. hope it send chills do wn the You have tried prudent planning for long enough. backs of those employers who From now on, live mad. would want to keep us down." —J. Rumi, born 1207, a Sufi mystic poet. —staff report The Next Stage W W W. C A L N U R S E S . O R G SEPTEMBER 2009