Thursday, November 3 at 9:45 AM at Casino Palm Beach, Salon Le Palm, Place Franklin Roosevelt – Pointe de la Croisette, Cannes (at the location of the media accreditation center for the G20)
G20 leaders must advance the Financial Transaction Tax to clean up the economy and the planet and protect the most vulnerable.
First responders administer the Financial Transaction Tax to revive a dying global economy. The global economy and the planet are in the emergency room.
The international trade union movement, Oxfam, and WWF call on G20 leaders to establish a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to urgently raise the necessary funds for job creation, public services, and action against climate change, both in advanced countries and in developing ones.
The most vulnerable people are also those hardest hit by the financial and climate crises, for which they are not responsible.
Nurses from Australia, France, Ireland, Korea, and the United States will try to revive a dying global economy by administering the Financial Transaction Tax.
Dressed in their uniforms, the nurses will administer an FTT drip to a dying global economy represented by a person whose body will be painted in earth tones.
The American nurses come from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement present throughout the United States, where they have provided first aid at the first-aid stations available to the Occupy movement.
The nurses will issue an FTT prescription to the G20 leaders.
In the presence of Bill Nighy, internationally renowned actor and global ambassador for Oxfam, iconic figure and spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign,
Carlos Zarco, Oxfam Mexico
Elise Buckle, international policy advisor WWF – leader of the G20 campaign
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United (United States)
Peter Waldorff, General Secretary of Public Services International and President of the Council of the Global Unions group
