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Featured photo:Supporters at Elizabeth Dickinson's announcement in 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MAY 20, 2010
The Green Party of St. Paul stands with the over 12,000 nurses from 14 Twin Cities hospitals that have voted to strike tonight. Nurses are standing up for safe staffing levels, better patient care, and protecting their hard-earned pensions. If hospitals can afford to continue to give huge bonuses to well-paid executives, they can afford to treat their patients and front line workers with dignity and respect.
Imagine a city that is a model for the rest of the world in sustainable, environmentally friendly living. A city that works not toward growth and sprawl at any cost but toward mutual support and quality of life for all its citizens. A city where all children have access to superb free public education that teaches not only the basic skills needed for living but gives them the incentive and confidence to become active, informed citizens of a democracy -- and of a peaceful global community. Imagine a city in which workers have the right to a living wage and where there is affordable housing and health care for all. A city of thriving neighborhoods, community-based small businesses and co-ops, and an economy weaning itself from dependence on fossil fuel.
St. Paul can become such a city. Read more...
