Nurses, AFL-CIO Unions to Host Michael Moore and Special Screening of New Film at...

Nurses, AFL-CIO Unions to Host Michael Moore and Special Screening of New Film
at AFL-CIO Convention
At Monday Forum Supporting Medicare for All

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Nurses Association/National
Nurses Organizing Committee, joined by other AFL-CIO unions, will host
filmmaker Michael Moore at a special reception Monday night, along with a
screening of his highly anticipated new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" at
the AFL-CIO national convention in Pittsburgh.

Moore will speak at the reception, which will outline the ongoing campaign for
single payer healthcare reform by expanding Medicare to everyone.

He will be joined by AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka, expected to
be elected AFL-CIO President at the convention; Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive
Director of the CNA/NNOC, the nation's largest union of RNs; Leo Gerard,
President of the United Steel Workers; and Greg Junemann, President of the
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.

What: Reception with filmmaker Michael Moore, the California Nurses
Assn/NNOC and other labor leaders, followed by the first U.S.
showing of Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story"
When: Monday, September 14. Reception 5-7 p.m. followed by film showing
Where: David L. Lawrence Convention Center Ballroom, 1000 Fort Duquesne
Blvd., AFL-CIO Convention, Pittsburgh

Monday's showing, for AFL-CIO Convention delegates and guests, will be the
first U.S. showing of the film which depicts the Wall Street collapse with
Moore's trademark humor. DeMoro calls the film "the best major labor film in
years" and "an unabashed advocacy of working people and critique of an unjust
system and the financial misdeeds that have led to the gravest economic crisis
since the Great Depression."

The film which premiered in Vienna, Austria just last week to rave reviews
from a worldwide audience, will open in U.S. theaters on October 2.

It will be the second consecutive Moore film to be first screened in the U.S.
at an event hosted by CNA/NNOC. Moore's 2007 film, SiCKO, an indictment of the
U.S. healthcare industry, was first shown in the U.S. to RNs in California.
CNA/NNOC leaders and other RNs then toured the country with Moore calling for
comprehensive reform, best embodied by a single payer system, in a precursor
to the present national healthcare reform debate.

Monday's reception, which occurs on the first day of the AFL-CIO, is co-hosted
by the California School Employees Association, IFPTE, International Longshore
and Warehouse Union, Utility Workers Union of America and the Labor Campaign
for Single Payer.

CNA/NNOC represents 86,000 registered nurses in all 50 states, and is working
toward unification with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and United
American Nurses to build a new 150,000 member national nurses organization.

SOURCE California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

Charles Idelson, +1-415-559-8991, or Donna Smith, +1-773-617-4493, both for
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee