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lmost 1,000 California Nurses
Association/National Nurses
Organizing Committee
(CNA/NNOC) RN members gath-
ered from across the country in September
for their 2017 convention under the theme,
"Protecting The Right to Care." They were
joined over the three days by notable
activists in the progressive movement such
as Nina Turner, Jane Sanders, Van Jones,
Gavin Newsom, and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
There was lots to discuss.
At the top of the agenda was educating and
strategizing about how CNA/NNOC nurses
will collectively respond to the Trump admin-
istration's severe attacks on everything that
RNs hold dear: their right to practice nursing
safely and effectively; their right to speak up,
organize, and advocate collectively as workers
for themselves and their patients; the right of
patients to have access to healthcare as a
human right through a Medicare-for-all
single-payer system; the right of citizens to live
in a society and environment that promotes
their health, not makes them ill.
CNA/NNOC nurses unite to
protect the right to care
At 2017 convention, RNs educate, agitate, organize
