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LABOR RIGHTS:
Nurses in New York have reached a tentative deal with two hospitals after striking due, in large part, to being overworked and understaffed. While the U.S. deals with a long-running nationwide nursing shortage, hospital systems have responded by simply increasing the patient load for nurses. This is a dangerous practice that leads to worse health outcomes, including an increase in patient mortality. Rather than endangering patients and putting nurses in an impossible position, hospitals should be listening to and engaging nurses on the best ways to address this shortage. In the meantime, let's support nurses and protect patients by asking our members of Congress to reintroduce and pass the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act (S.1567/H.R.3165), which would mandate minimum nurse to patient staffing ratios
EMPHASIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BIDEN’S AND TRUMP’S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS:
Republicans and the right-wing media are making a big deal about the small number of classified documents found in Biden’s vice presidential office and home, and trying to make the case that this is no different from the 300 classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. In fact, the situations couldn’t be more different, as this article from AP News points out. https://apnews.com/article/biden-classified-documents-trump-side-by-side-fb2c4ebccdbdbb9039c1c5e227b1da53. Let’s use this information and write letters to the editor of our local newspapers to remind the members of our communities of the facts.
STOP A CONSERVATIVE JUDICIAL NOMINEE IN NEW YORK:
With the Supreme Court firmly in conservative hands, getting the right judges on our state courts is more important than ever. Unfortunately, Governor Kathy Hochul has put forward as a nominee to lead New York’s highest court Hector LaSalle, a judge with a history of ruling against abortion rights and unions and weakening due process. New Yorkers, let’s reach out to our state senators and encourage them to oppose the LaSalle nomination and encourage Governor Hochul to pull his name.
INCLUDE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS:
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has made it possible for us to report the results of our at-home COVID-19 tests so public health teams can track the spread and follow surges. Our reports are anonymous, secure, and cannot be traced back to us. Let’s bookmark the MakeMyTestCount website and report the results of our at-home tests every time we take them.
CELEBRATE MLK DAY BY ASSEMBLING CARE PACKAGES FOR INCARCERATED BLACK WOMEN:
Every Martin Luther King Day, Color of Change’s Serve Our Sisters, an organization dedicated to action for Black Women of all backgrounds, celebrates by serving Black women. This time, their focus is on Black women who are currently in prison. While Black women make up 13% of all women in the country, 30% of the women in prison and 44% of women in jail are Black. They are being locked up at twice the rate of white women, yet this problem is largely gnored.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/12/criminal-justice-reform-wont-work-until-it-focuses-black-women/. On Monday, Jan 16, MLK Day and a day of service, if we are in Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Raleigh, or Tampa, we can give some care and attention to some of these women. We’ll be packing care packages for them, while having meaningful conversations about our communities’ issues. We can find out more about the event and then sign up to put care packages for incarcerated women together here. If we are curious, we can learn more about why language used for people affected by incarceration matters here.