From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bronxdoc@gmail.com">bronxdoc@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">I wanted to share a bit of the excitement and energy of the Wall Street Occupation. I've put up a posting on the Social Medicine Portal (at: <a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1to" target="_blank">http://wp.me/plAxa-1to</a>).<span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">
<p>Briefly, the long-overdue "occupation" of Wall Street began 23 days ago on September 17th. As it enters its fourth week, there is no sign that the occupation is slowing down. In fact, there are currently "<a href="http://www.occupytogether.org/" target="_blank">Occupy Together</a>" Meet-ups in 1,112 cities across the US with<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/occupy-together/daily-check-in-where-are-you-occupying/302421216439027" target="_blank"> 83 confirmed occupations</a> across the world.</p>
<p>This week saw significant representation by progressive doctors in the protests on Wednesday, October 5 and Saturday October 8. Many of us were associated either with the <a href="http://www.pnhp.org/" target="_blank">Physicians for a National Health Program</a>, the <a href="http://npalliance.org/" target="_blank">National Physicians Alliance</a> or a Bronx-based residency program in social medicine. [There were far more nurses at the protest largely because far more nurses are unionized.] The blog posting includes pictures and video clips highlighting a protest effort which has come to be called: Doctors for the 99%.</p>
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