The case of Amanda Trujillo has generated a great deal of passionate commentary across the nursing blogosphere. Trujillo, as you may well know, is the nurse who was fired by Banner Health Del E. Webb Medical Center for requesting multi-disciplinary hospice care case management consult for a pre-transplant patient with end-stage
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Arizona governor Jan Brewer scoffs at accusations of racism. Arizona senator Cecil Ash wants holiday for white people.
All I can say is that Arizona must have a lot of white people. A lot of old, rich white people. How else could the governor get up in the face of the first black American president by wagging her finger up his nose and claim afterwards that she “felt a
Continue readingTeresa Healy's Blog: Reading as Liberation
A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that in Arizona, the Tucson Unified School District had suspended the teaching of Mexican-American studies, banned the teaching of certain books and confiscated books and teaching materials from classrooms. As this outrageous story has been unfolding, I have been appalled but, to my
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Voices For Amanda Trujillo
Each of them eloquently speaks to the heart of what we do as nurses — and why nurses find how Amanda Trujillo was fired and subsequently reported to the Arizona State Board of Nursing so troubling. (Via The Innovative Nurse.) The first is from Andrew Lopez (Twitter: @nursefriendly.) Kevin Ross
Continue readingDoes this look to you like Obama’s threatening Jan Brewer (R-AZ)?
Of course not. But judging from Brewer’s breathless account and headlines from the usual bevy of right-wing blogs, a ‘threatening’ Obama “intensely” reproached the Governor for comments about the “thin-skinned” president in her book (which coincidentally shot up the charts after the exchange). After the exchange, Brewer immediately made her
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: ‘A pervasive culture of discriminatory bias’ – the justice model for Canada’s loony right
One of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies leads a prisoner, arrested for his shaky command of the English language, toward the chain gang. Racist and abusive Arizona police may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: “America’s toughest sheriff” hisself. Never forget that the Edmonton Sun, apparently a goodly portion of its
Continue readingA. Picazo: Canadian Immigration, Conservative Xenophobia
In the United States, debate surrounding Arizona’s new harsh immigration policy – the ‘papers please‘ law – moved from arguing the merits, necessity and constitutionality of SB1070, to a nonsensical discussion about the 14th amendment; the part of the constitution which guarantees American citizenship to all persons born in the
Continue readingA. Picazo: Canadian Immigration, Conservative Xenophobia
In the United States, debate surrounding Arizona’s new harsh immigration policy – the ‘papers please‘ law – moved from arguing the merits, necessity and constitutionality of SB1070, to a nonsensical discussion about the 14th amendment; the part of the constitution which guarantees American citizenship to all persons born in the
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