Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will welcome and address more than 700 registered nurses from across California and the nation in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, December 2.
 
The nurses, members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United are holding a conference on critical issues affecting nurses and safe patient care including patient advocacy from the bedside to the public arena and how the climate crisis affects public health.
 
CNA/NNU is the state’s largest and premiere nurses’ organization representing some 90,000 nurses in California, part of a national NNU membership of 185,000 RNs from coast to coast. Nurses will also be on hand from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Washington DC, and several other states.

What:             Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to address California nurses
When:             Wednesday, December 2, 11 a.m.
Where:           JW Marriott, Diamond Ballroom, 3rd Floor,
                        900 W Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles

 
“Gavin Newsom is a long time friend of CNA and nurses. California’s nurses have welcomed Gavin’s energetic leadership in working for universal healthcare for San Francisco residents as mayor of San Francisco, his political courage in fighting for equal rights for same sex couples and advocacyon a broad range of other critical issues including global and local solutions to the climate crisis,” said CNA/NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro.
 
On Thursday, December 3, nurses will also join with environmental activists for a major march and rally in Los Angeles, coinciding with the United Nations Climate Summit, COP 21, underway in Paris. The Los Angeles Climate Action Convergence will feature a rally at Pershing Square, 532 Olive St., in downtown Los Angeles.
 
CNA and NNU members have long cited the health consequences of the climate crisis from pollution associated with fossil fuel production to the spread of infectious and vector-borne diseases to the deadly effects of climate-induced super storms.
 
The convergence is endorsed by numerous organizations including 350.org, Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, Courage Campaign, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Amalgamated Transit Union, Los Angeles for Bernie Sanders, A3PCON/Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council-Environmental Justice Committee, SoCal 350 Climate Action, Tar Sands Action Southern California, South Bay/L.A. 350, Progressive Christians Uniting, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, and Friends of the Earth.