The three protesters stood outside Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn on an autumn Wednesday, holding signs denouncing the hospital’s rock-bottom ranking for cleanliness and calling for the ouster of its chief executive, Kenneth Gibbs. They had been there nearly every day since the middle of summer, their presence a continual irritant to hospital leadership.
One of the protesters, Derrick Taylor, explained that he had found the job on Craigslist and that he was earning $600 per week to protest and collect petitions. But he added that he also believed in the cause. “We are here to restore, not just to be a black eye,” he said. “And we have high-profile people behind us.”
