Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, the new documentary by Robert Greenwald (Director of Outfoxed, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Making A Killing: Guns, Greed, & the NRA) weaves together personal stories from voters across the state of Georgia to paint an undeniable picture of voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election where Stacey Abrams fought to become the first Black female governor in the U.S. The issues Georgians faced included polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots, extreme wait times and a host of voter ID issues – all of which disproportionately prevented many students and people of color from casting their ballots. Suppressed: The Fight to Vote features experts, poll watchers and everyday Georgians speaking to the reality of voter suppression and the threat it poses in 2020. In a race that was ultimately decided by 54,723 votes, the film exposes that the basic constitutional right to vote continues to be under siege in America.
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For the friends I’ve lost in the past and recent past because of my political beliefs or because I’m anti-racist or because of being a liberal and expressing the desire to “love one another” no matter your creed or culture or the color of your skin or your physical or sexual identity or anything else...
I’m sorry that my thoughts and expressions got in the way of our #friendship.
Social Media is truly a way to express yourself, get people’s attention, communicate with each other, but it’s also a Petri dish for bad vibes and offending people who don’t believe the same as you do.
So for those I’ve offended and you felt you had to defriend me and/or block me.... I apologize.
Peace love and hugs to all.... even if you hate me!!
Nearly 12,000 Faithful America members have signed our petition calling on Roku, DirecTV, and DISH to drop right-wing televangelist Jim Bakker for peddling a phony coronavirus "cure." Thank you for adding your name!
Here are three quick updates about this campaign:
1) We tried to spread the word with a Facebook ad -- but Facebook rejected it for making "misleading claims." What an outrageous statement: We're trying to stop misleading claims from Bakker! If Facebook is going to censor our ad, we need to find another way to spread the word. Will you share this petition with friends and family by posting it to your own Facebook profile today?
(If you've already shared the petition, it's okay to share it again -- different friends might see it this time. If you're not on Facebook, that's great too: Please email your friends and family a link to the petition, and ask them to join you in signing!)
2) The Springfield News-Leader, part of the USA Today network, published a big article about our campaign this morning -- right in Bakker's southwestern Missouri backyard! Read it here: "Liberal Christian group calls on TV networks and Roku to drop Bakker show."
3) Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent Bakker a cease-and-desist letter. This Monday, both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told him to stop. Then yesterday, he was sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. As of this email, the coronavirus snake oil no longer appears in Bakker's online store.
All of that is welcome news, but more is still needed. DirecTV, DISH Network, and Roku can end Bakker's deceptions once and for all by taking away his public platform. Help make that happen by sharing our petition with friends and family today.
Thank you for everything you do to love your neighbor, including taking action to protect them from con-men and the coronavirus.
In peace,
Rev. Nathan and the Faithful America team
Nearly 12,000 Faithful America members have signed our petition calling on Roku, DirecTV, and DISH to drop right-wing televangelist Jim Bakker for peddling a phony coronavirus "cure." Thank you for adding your name!
Here are three quick updates about this campaign:
1) We tried to spread the word with a Facebook ad -- but Facebook rejected it for making "misleading claims." What an outrageous statement: We're trying to stop misleading claims from Bakker! If Facebook is going to censor our ad, we need to find another way to spread the word. Will you share this petition with friends and family by posting it to your own Facebook profile today?
(If you've already shared the petition, it's okay to share it again -- different friends might see it this time. If you're not on Facebook, that's great too: Please email your friends and family a link to the petition, and ask them to join you in signing!)
2) The Springfield News-Leader, part of the USA Today network, published a big article about our campaign this morning -- right in Bakker's southwestern Missouri backyard! Read it here: "Liberal Christian group calls on TV networks and Roku to drop Bakker show."
3) Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent Bakker a cease-and-desist letter. This Monday, both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told him to stop. Then yesterday, he was sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. As of this email, the coronavirus snake oil no longer appears in Bakker's online store.
All of that is welcome news, but more is still needed. DirecTV, DISH Network, and Roku can end Bakker's deceptions once and for all by taking away his public platform. Help make that happen by sharing our petition with friends and family today.
Thank you for everything you do to love your neighbor, including taking action to protect them from con-men and the coronavirus.
In peace,
Rev. Nathan and the Faithful America team
Nearly 12,000 Faithful America members have signed our petition calling on Roku, DirecTV, and DISH to drop right-wing televangelist Jim Bakker for peddling a phony coronavirus "cure." Thank you for adding your name!
Here are three quick updates about this campaign:
1) We tried to spread the word with a Facebook ad -- but Facebook rejected it for making "misleading claims." What an outrageous statement: We're trying to stop misleading claims from Bakker! If Facebook is going to censor our ad, we need to find another way to spread the word. Will you share this petition with friends and family by posting it to your own Facebook profile today?
(If you've already shared the petition, it's okay to share it again -- different friends might see it this time. If you're not on Facebook, that's great too: Please email your friends and family a link to the petition, and ask them to join you in signing!)
2) The Springfield News-Leader, part of the USA Today network, published a big article about our campaign this morning -- right in Bakker's southwestern Missouri backyard! Read it here: "Liberal Christian group calls on TV networks and Roku to drop Bakker show."
3) Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent Bakker a cease-and-desist letter. This Monday, both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told him to stop. Then yesterday, he was sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. As of this email, the coronavirus snake oil no longer appears in Bakker's online store.
All of that is welcome news, but more is still needed. DirecTV, DISH Network, and Roku can end Bakker's deceptions once and for all by taking away his public platform. Help make that happen by sharing our petition with friends and family today.
Thank you for everything you do to love your neighbor, including taking action to protect them from con-men and the coronavirus.
In peace,
Rev. Nathan and the Faithful America team
Nearly 12,000 Faithful America members have signed our petition calling on Roku, DirecTV, and DISH to drop right-wing televangelist Jim Bakker for peddling a phony coronavirus "cure." Thank you for adding your name!
Here are three quick updates about this campaign:
1) We tried to spread the word with a Facebook ad -- but Facebook rejected it for making "misleading claims." What an outrageous statement: We're trying to stop misleading claims from Bakker! If Facebook is going to censor our ad, we need to find another way to spread the word. Will you share this petition with friends and family by posting it to your own Facebook profile today?
(If you've already shared the petition, it's okay to share it again -- different friends might see it this time. If you're not on Facebook, that's great too: Please email your friends and family a link to the petition, and ask them to join you in signing!)
2) The Springfield News-Leader, part of the USA Today network, published a big article about our campaign this morning -- right in Bakker's southwestern Missouri backyard! Read it here: "Liberal Christian group calls on TV networks and Roku to drop Bakker show."
3) Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent Bakker a cease-and-desist letter. This Monday, both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told him to stop. Then yesterday, he was sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. As of this email, the coronavirus snake oil no longer appears in Bakker's online store.
All of that is welcome news, but more is still needed. DirecTV, DISH Network, and Roku can end Bakker's deceptions once and for all by taking away his public platform. Help make that happen by sharing our petition with friends and family today.
Thank you for everything you do to love your neighbor, including taking action to protect them from con-men and the coronavirus.
In peace,
Rev. Nathan and the Faithful America team
Nearly 12,000 Faithful America members have signed our petition calling on Roku, DirecTV, and DISH to drop right-wing televangelist Jim Bakker for peddling a phony coronavirus "cure." Thank you for adding your name!
Here are three quick updates about this campaign:
1) We tried to spread the word with a Facebook ad -- but Facebook rejected it for making "misleading claims." What an outrageous statement: We're trying to stop misleading claims from Bakker! If Facebook is going to censor our ad, we need to find another way to spread the word. Will you share this petition with friends and family by posting it to your own Facebook profile today?
(If you've already shared the petition, it's okay to share it again -- different friends might see it this time. If you're not on Facebook, that's great too: Please email your friends and family a link to the petition, and ask them to join you in signing!)
2) The Springfield News-Leader, part of the USA Today network, published a big article about our campaign this morning -- right in Bakker's southwestern Missouri backyard! Read it here: "Liberal Christian group calls on TV networks and Roku to drop Bakker show."
3) Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent Bakker a cease-and-desist letter. This Monday, both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told him to stop. Then yesterday, he was sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. As of this email, the coronavirus snake oil no longer appears in Bakker's online store.
All of that is welcome news, but more is still needed. DirecTV, DISH Network, and Roku can end Bakker's deceptions once and for all by taking away his public platform. Help make that happen by sharing our petition with friends and family today.
Thank you for everything you do to love your neighbor, including taking action to protect them from con-men and the coronavirus.
In peace,
Rev. Nathan and the Faithful America team
1976, we couldn’t wait to be nurses. Our starched white dresses with the nurse caps and stripes symbolized our graduation status as we were called one by one to receive our diploma and a rose.
We took an oath to care for the sick, to be professional, to critically think, to respect doctors and to respect patients and family members.
And to respect each other.
It was the age before computers. We learned how to calculate IV fluids in drops per hour and drops per minute. We had large folders that contained algorithms for sepsis, or myocardial infarctions or code blues. We had a three-fold flow sheet that we would manually document on. Threefold front and back. Blood pressures every 15 minutes and the pressors to coincide with the blood pressure. Everything was manually written from labs to a patient’s chart to MDs handwriting new orders — and endless charting of everything that happened to the patient in the ICU or CCU. We knew everything we charted had to be precise as it was always a potential for legal matters.
The handheld calculator had just come out on the market. It was the newest invention: $85 for a handheld calculator. So we were thrilled that we could now plug in some numbers to get an accurate drip rate for IVs or calculate dosages in an instant.
We were associate-degree and diploma nurses. And only the “elite” would earn a BSN.
We didn’t have breaks; they didn’t exist. We just kept working until it was time to go.
You worked the shifts your manager told you to. There was no compromising. You just did what you were told to do. We were the new pioneers in this field of nursing, and we were quite proud of ourselves.
Some older nurses did not communicate well with younger nurses.
Sometimes it was bullying the young. Or harassing or degrading a younger nurse who was just learning.
And the newly coined phrase appeared:
“The old eating their young.”
And the phrase stuck. Unfortunately.
And there was nowhere to turn. The managers turned their heads away. Sometimes the hazing was so bad that nurses would resign and even find a new career.
The nurses we couldn’t wait to be were riddled with harassment and ridicule.
And instead of holding each other up, we slowly destroyed each other.
Fast forward to the year 2000.
We older nurses are counting the years we can say goodbye to this long, hard, relentless career. This career that afforded our family vacations and a house and car and nice clothes and college for the kids.
This career that challenged us in the gut as we watched people live longer or die faster. As we said our goodbyes to our patients, we grew to love, and we’d gulp buckets of tears when it was over. Our last goodbyes to patients we loved.
We slowly evolved painstakingly learning the computer. And the computer was foreign to us. We were “special” and slow and didn’t adapt as well as the younger nurses did. These younger ones started computers in their home, in kindergarten and throughout the rest of their young lives.
Though they sported lots of energy, they walked faster than us, and they now had medical protocols and procedures right at their fingertips — instant knowledge.
But what the young ones didn’t know was that we were pioneers. We’re the ones with years and years of knowledge and experience and wisdom. And thus, the cycle of bullying was reinvented.
I’ve been a manager of an emergency department, I’ve been first assist to the surgeon, I’ve been a staff nurse and a charge nurse in ICU. And I’ve endured over 30 years in nursing. I have to continue working three more years before I can financially retire.
My sadness comes in when I hear the young men and women in this nursing career start the harassment.
“Where’s your hearing aid?”
“Are you STILL working?”
“Where’s your walker with the tennis balls?”
And then there’s a laugh.
But it’s not funny.
It’s sad and degrading.
It compromises our integrity, worth and our camaraderie. And instead of working together — we tear each other apart.
This is the hardest part of nursing.
I know it’s not everywhere, but it does exist.
And so now the coin has flipped.
The young eating the old.
Are we strong enough to stop this?
Are we strong enough to encourage positive work ethics and behaviors and to learn from the new and learn from the old?
Can this profession be saved?
It’s up to us.
All of us.
Respect.
Educate.
Enrich.
Empower.
We came here for a reason. Let’s not destroy ourselves.
Debbie Moore-Black is a nurse who blogs at Do Not Resuscitate
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