Month: April 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions are expected to drop by nearly 8 percent this year, due to COVID-19 lock downs. This is the largest drop ever recorded …

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

Rent is a new concept in human history and one of our modern era’s biggest crimes. Let’s end rent! …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been slow to reach most of Africa compared to Europe and the United States. But that is changing. …

How is it that being poorer means I pay more for health coverage instead of less? …

On April 13th, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. …

Sanders was right to say we need a movement, but channeling it into the Democratic Party is a dead end. …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …

In the midst of widespread panic, fear and economic instability, most of the world’s rich and powerful have been forced to flee to their multi-million dollar mansions and vacation homes. …

The United Nations food agency estimates that over seven million people, mostly young children, die of hunger every year. That’s in normal times without a pandemic! …

May Day 2020 • International Workers Day An Online Celebration link to videos of presentations …

On April 23, during a White House briefing, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the DHS reported on data …

The virus has spread across the world and has impacted people in different ways …

On March 25, the EPA announced it is rolling back environmental protections in response to the coronavirus. …

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers. …

this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of …

Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility: we were already navigating a health care crisis …

Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior. …

Poetry from an Oakland Kaiser Worker …

To the wealthy, we are things to exploit, not people who deserve respect. Nothing could make this more clear than the sick fact that landlords are using the current economic crisis to demand sexual favors. …

To all previously requesting to work at home, management’s actions are like a slap in the face …

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, millionaires in the U.S. stand to receive a lot more than $1,200. They’re getting $1.6 million in deductions, EACH. …

The Smithfield pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a huge eight-story meat processing plant that employs 3,700 workers. …

Here we are, in the middle of a global pandemic and what does the Trump administration do? Cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). …

Trump has formed a committee he calls the “Opening Our Country Council,” supposedly a committee of experts to figure out how to relax social distancing measures …

3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Over 10,000 people have died in New York City from the coronavirus. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if governments had taken the pandemic seriously …

Videos from COVID-19 townhall …

The main reason it’s so hard to access social programs is that governments intentionally want to pay out as little as possible …

From a Mental Health Hotline Worker: No one is in this alone. …

For several weeks now, President Trump has been pushing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a …

From a Biotech Student: This pandemic begs the question; what kind of world are we graduating into? …

Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high. …

At a press conference in March, President Trump said that “nobody knew” there’d be a pandemic of this proportion. He’s lying. …

The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. In response, the federal government has done nothing for renters or mortgage holders. …

Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires. …

The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, opens with a quote from Fredrick Douglass: “My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators.” …

From a Contract Worker: This crisis is demonstrating the precariousness of my situation. …

Frontline Health Care Worker in North Jersey: Our frontline workers are in a chokehold. …

The deep social inequality in Ecuador is a key reason the country has been vulnerable to this pandemic …

Montana Governor Steve Bullock is allowing construction to begin on the infamous Keystone XL oil pipeline in Montana. …

Saturday • April 18 • 10:30am (PDT) …

Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …

An Introduction to the American & Global Oil Economy Its Ever-Increasing Expansion, and Why a …

From an Oakland Bus Driver: We can’t afford to wait for someone else to make sure we’re okay. …

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …