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NewsBriefs:Public 7/9/07 1:21 PM Page 9 On the Road with Michael Moore t was an exciting whirlwind of television cameras, red carpet photo ops, checking in and out of hotels, and late nights making frantic planning calls for the next day. But the nurses who spent five days before SiCKO's opening blazing through six East Coast cities on CNA/NNOC's SiCKO bus to promote the movie and its guaranteed healthcare message to nurses and the public said they've never had more fun. "It was nonstop. Talk, talk, talk. It was great," said Margie Keenan, a CNA/NNOC board member and an RN at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. "It was an unbelievable experience, just being able to get out and talk to other nurses." In New York, CNA/NNOC met up with members of the New York State Nurses Association. In Pennsylvania, they hooked up with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals. Keenan reported that all along the way, nurses were "on the same page" in supporting healthcare organized along a single-payer model. The nurses on board attended many of the East Coast premieres, including getting the full red-carpet experience in New York City. They rushed to Philadelphia for a press conference, then stopped in on the AFL-CIO offices and on Congress for a hearing. Then they booked it to Chicago just in time for a I JUNE 2007 CNA/NNOC RN leaders and members from other nursing organizations at the New York City premiere of SiCKO. CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro helps lead a town hall meeting on healthcare among undecided voters in New Hampshire. W W W. C A L N U R S E S . O R G spirited protest in front of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and capped off the trip by participating in a town hall meeting in New Hampshire with undecided voters—signaling that the issue of truly universal, guaranteed healthcare will play a deciding factor in the 2008 presidential race. Keenan joked that the nurses on tour were so tired from the publicity blitz that at the showing in Chicago, "most of us fell asleep during the movie." Luckily they've all seen it many times. —staff report REGISTERED NURSE 9