The nation’s largest organization of nurses is continuing its campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders this weekend in Orangeburg, Columbia, and Myrtle Beach with visits with students, union members, and a community forum and town hall.

National Nurses United this week began a #BernieBus tour across the state in advance of the February 27 primary to meet with voters and participate in events to explain why nurses support Sen. Sanders.

Key issues for nurses are Sen. Sanders commitment to nurses’ values of caring, compassion and community.

Those include guaranteed healthcare for all, assuring equal educational opportunity for all by eliminating public college tuition to drive down student debt, a major attack on income inequality with programs such as raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and creating millions of good paying jobs by rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, and broad criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration,

Where to meet nurses and the #Bernie Bus

Today, Friday: 3:30 p.m. Columbia College at higher education discussion with former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner and educator/activist Adolph Reed, 1301 Columbia College Dr, Columbia, SC and Adolph Reed

Saturday: 2 p.m. South Carolina Labor for Bernie event, Tapps Art Center, 1644 Main St, Columbia. 7 p.m. HeartBERN/BERNtheRave, The Attic, 638 Harden St., Columbia.

Sunday: 4 p.m. Myrtle Beach Minority Communities Forum and Town Hall,  Mary C. Canty Recreation Center, 917 Canal Street, Myrtle Beach  

For months National Nurses United members have been campaigning for Sanders, in rallies, house parties, talking to voters and traveling around early voting states in a #BernieBus which has visited voters at public sites and events.

Martese Chism, RN, who will be speaking at the South Carolina Labor for Bernie event recently participated in the #nurses campaign in Iowa where she spent time knocking on doors talking to Iowans. “We talked about what it means to have someone who is a champion, but also has a movement behind him. You need both to achieve social change.”
 

RN Martese Chism with an Iowa voter in late January.