Published: August 28, 2008

America's RN Union, CNA/NNOC, Available for Comment Following Obama Speech

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DENVER, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee's RN leaders will be available for comment tonight immediately following Barak Obama's acceptance speech inDenver's Mile High Stadium. Co-presidents Deborah Burger, RN, and Malinda Markowitz, RN, have been attending the Democratic National Convention throughout this weeks.

RN co-presidents CNA/NNOC available for interviews immediately following tonight's acceptance speech. To arrange an interview call Chuck Idelson 415-559-8991:

Deborah Burger, RN, is a diabetes educator at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa.

Malinda Markowitz, RN, works in a surgical, orthopedics, neurology unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose.

In the face of this healthcare crisis, which is forcing our nation into a recession, where 79 million Americans have trouble paying their medical bills, and causing the premature and unnecessary deaths of 101,000 Americans every year. A broad coalition of activists have been working together at the upcoming Democratic Convention to build support for healthcare reform.

CNA/NNOC, alongside the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), has been actively lobbying on the floor and holding events to build support for HR 676 (Conyers) and its promise of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model that is succeeding in nearly every other industrialized democracy.

The convention is being covered on the Guaranteed Healthcare Blog: http://www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org/blog

Representing 80,000 RNs in 50 states, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is the largest and fastest-growing association of direct-care RNs in the nation. Learn more at http://www.calnurses.org.

SOURCE California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee