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Shirley Rodríguez Remeneski: Rest in Peace FEBRUARY 05 - FEBRUARY 12, 2019 • VOLUME 10 - No. 06 FREE PRESS The Community’s Bilingual Newspaper El Periódico Bilingüe de la Comunidad “We stick by the patients”p4 "Apoyamos a los pacientes"p4 Photo: Gregg McQueen Court p7 Health p6 Valor p3 2 FEBRUARY 06, 2019 • THE BRONX FREE PRESS • www.thebronxfreepress.com The project focuses on a paper- Currency in based community currency. Community By Sherry Mazzocchi rowing up in Puerto Rico, G Frances Negrón-Muntaner had a place to go after school. She and her friends always knew where to go, knew whose families welcomed neighborhood children into their homes for a few hours every day. These kindnesses – and essentially, services currencies lose value, residents create ways people to a site that describes their lives. – were never formally repaid with cash. of storing value for goods and services in Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente played But Negrón-Muntaner says these types of alternative or community currencies. professional baseball in Puerto Rico before informal arrangements enrich communities. Santos Negrón and Negrón-Muntaner becoming a right fi elder for the Pittsburgh Negrón-Muntaner is a fi lmmaker and designed a paper-based community currency Pirates and earning 3,000 hits in his Major Professor of Caribbean Literature and Politics that also has a dual story-telling component. League Baseball career. His 21 peso refl ects at Columbia University. She, together with People get bills, or pesos, from a re-vamped his jersey number, which the Pirates retired in multi-disciplinary artist and educator Sarabel ATM machine by telling a story. The bills 1973. Santos Negrón (no relation) teamed up to can be used at participating businesses. “What’s great about this is, it’s not a number create Valor y Cambio, which starts this Currently, 40 businesses in towns across you have in most currencies,” she said. “It’s an February in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico off er discounts in exchange for odd number, but we felt it was good because it Valor y Cambio is a multi-part project; part the bills. Recently, even more businesses tells how stories can be diff erent.” community currency, part storytelling, and have expressed interest in the project. Other people commemorated on the pesos part social transformation. The project had The paper currency comes in seven are Maestros Rafael, Celestina and Gregoria “If trust is eliminated, money loses its genesis when Negron-Muntaner started denominations. Each peso features an Cordero y Molina, the children of former its value,” said fi lmmaker and researching the topic of unpayable debt. When important historical fi gure. The back of the scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner. countries’ economies go south and national bill has a QR code that, when scanned, leads See CURRENCY p15 Moneda en movimiento Por Sherry Mazzocchi l crecer en Puerto Rico, Frances ANegrón-Muntaner tenía un lugar para ir después de la escuela. Ella y sus amigas siempre sabían a dónde ir, sabían qué familias recibían a los niños del vecindario en sus hogares durante algunas horas todos los días. Estas bondades, y esencialmente, servicios, nunca eran pagados formalmente con dinero en efectivo. Pero Negrón-Muntaner dice que este tipo de arreglos informales enriquecen a las comunidades. Negrón-Muntaner es cineasta y profesora de literatura y política del Caribe en la Universidad Columbia. Ella y la artista multidisciplinaria y educadora Sarabel Santos Negrón se unieron para crearValor y Cambio, que comienza este febrero en Puerto Rico. Valor y Cambio es un proyecto multiparte; parte moneda de la comunidad, parte narración y parte transformación social. El proyecto tuvo su origen cuando Negrón-Muntaner comenzó a investigar el tema de la deuda impagable. Cuando las economías de los países se van a La artista y educadora Sarabel Santos Negrón. Vea MONEA p15 FEBRUARYFEBRUARY 06, 6, 20192019 •• THEANHATTAN BRONX FREE TES PRESS • www.mnhttntmesnews.com • www.thebronxfreepress.com 113 “We stick by the patients” Nurses rally for fair funding, staffing levels Story and photos by Gregg McQueen suffering because nurses are overwhelmed. You’re always in a rush.” uliepre Speranta is staying But she’s committed. “I’m still here because I care about the D put. patients,” she remarked. “My colleagues feel the same way. We stick by the patients.” Speranta is a Registered Nurse at NYC Nonetheless, she is calling for change. Health + Hospitals/Harlem, the largest Speranta joined with fellow hospital nurses hospital in Central Harlem – and she’s busy. at a rally on Tues., Feb. 5th demanding safe “Half the time you need to skip your staffing levels and fair funding at public break,” said Speranta. “Patient care is hospitals within the city. Marking the start of Nurses kicked off the campaign. their campaign for a new contract, members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) — most of them workers at NYC “We stick by the patients,” said Health + Hospital Registered Nurse Duliepre Speranta. locations — staged the rally and a press off NYSNA’s “Healthcare Justice for All” “It’s terrible,” she said. “I’ve seen nurses conference at the New as contract negotiations with New York City cry, they’re so overworked. I saw one nurse York Public Library’s public hospitals begin this month. go two days in a row having to work 12 Schomburg Center At the rally, nurses complained that an hours without a break.” for Research in Black increase in patient levels has left unsafe She said it is difficult for nursing staff to Culture, located across staffing ratios and is placing a strain on nurses. keep up with administering medications, the street from NYC A nurse from Jacobi Medical Center in changing wound dressings, providing Health + Hospitals/ the Bronx, who spoke on the condition of oxygen and other tasks, while still discussing Harlem. anonymity, said staffing levels at her hospital information with patients. sometimes reached 35 patients to 4 nurses. The events kicked See NURSES p13 el Departamento de Empleados Profesionales, AFL-CIO, en los que la menor proporción de "Apoyamos a los pacientes" enfermeros por paciente en los hospitales de California redujo significativamente la organizaron el mitin y una conferencia de prensa probabilidad de muerte de un paciente. “Estaremos con ustedes, no solo de palabra, Enfermeras se en el Centro Schomburg para la Investigación de En un comunicado, NYSNA escribió: sino en hechos”, dijo la directora ejecutiva de la Cultura Negra de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva “Además, después de que se implementaron Community Voices Heard Afua Atta-Mensah. manifiestan por un York, ubicada frente a NYC Health + Hospitals/ las proporciones en California, los ingresos Harlem. hospitalarios aumentaron dramáticamente de financiamiento justo, Los eventos dieron inicio a “Healthcare Justice $12.5 mil millones de dólares a más de $20.6 for All” de NYSNA, mientras comienzan las mil millones, o casi un 65 por ciento. El personal personal nivelado negociaciones contractuales con los hospitales seguro y la financiación justa son beneficiosos Historia y fotos por Gregg McQueen públicos de la Ciudad de Nueva York este mes. para todos los neoyorquinos y ofrecerán justicia En el mitin, las enfermeras se quejaron de sanitaria para todos”. que un aumento en los niveles de pacientes ha Anthony Ciampa, primer vicepresidente uliepre Speranta se queda quieta. de NYSNA, dijo que las proporciones de Speranta es una enfermera dejado relaciones del personal inseguras y está D ejerciendo presión sobre las enfermeras. enfermeras deberían ser obligatorias, al igual registrada en NYC Health + Hospitals/ Una enfermera del Centro Médico Jacobi en que el estado regula la dotación de personal Harlem, el hospital más grande de el Bronx, quien habló bajo anonimato, dijo que para las guarderías. Central Harlem, y está ocupada. los niveles de personal en su hospital a veces “No tiene sentido que en las guarderías llegaban a 4 enfermeras para 35 pacientes. tengan un número mínimo de personas que “La mitad del tiempo necesitas saltarte “Es terrible”, dijo. "He visto llorar a las deban cuidar a un niño, pero si ese niño va a el descanso”, dijo Speranta. “La atención al enfermeras, están tan sobrecargadas de trabajo. la sala de emergencias, ese concepto ya no paciente está sufriendo porque las enfermeras Vi a una enfermera ir dos días seguidos teniendo se aplica”, comentó. “Si tenemos requisitos de están abrumadas. Siempre estás en un apuro”. que trabajar 12 horas sin descanso”. personal para los maestros, deberíamos tener lo Pero ella está comprometida. Dijo que es difícil para el personal mismo para las enfermeras”. “Sigo aquí porque me preocupo por los de enfermería mantenerse al día con la Con el reciente anuncio del programa NYC pacientes”, comentó. “Mis colegas sienten lo administración de medicamentos, cambiar los Care del alcalde Bill de Blasio para garantizar mismo. Apoyamos a los pacientes”. apósitos de las heridas, suministrar oxígeno y una atención médica integral a todos los Sin embargo, ella está pidiendo un cambio. otras tareas, mientras se discute la información residentes de la ciudad, las enfermeras Speranta se unió a otras enfermeras del con los pacientes. expresaron su preocupación de que los niveles hospital en un mitin el 5 de febrero, para exigir “No tenemos tanto tiempo para hablar con los de pacientes pudieran aumentar aún más. niveles de personal seguros y fondos justos en pacientes o explicarles cosas”, dijo la enfermera NYSNA estima que se ofrecerá atención los hospitales públicos de la ciudad. Jacobi. No se trata solo de la satisfacción del médica a otros 600,000 neoyorquinos sin Celebrando el inicio de su campaña por un paciente, se trata de la calidad de la atención”. seguro. nuevo contrato, miembros de la Asociación de Durante años, NYSNA ha luchado por la “Podría empeorar”, dijo Speranta.
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