Memorial Day is supposedly a solemn occasion to remember Americans who died fighting in wars, a serious subject if ever there was one. So why is it typically celebrated with beach parties and consumer product sales …
Anybody in the Bay Area knows that housing is a nightmare, but COVID-19 has made it a horror …
Billionaire techies like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google have been using the COVID crisis to meet U.S. military and other federal officials …
On April 9, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York, he died as a result of COVID-19. …
22 million Americans have lost their jobs and are scrambling to figure out what to do, but the billionaires in the U.S. have increased their wealth by 10%. …
Trump released a statement saying that “governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend.” What an irresponsible statement! …
California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …
36.5 million workers had filed for unemployment, but most are waiting to see the funds appear. The viral hashtag #PendingPurgatory explains what it’s been like for working people …
Almost half of workers are making more on unemployment than they do in their regular jobs …
Environmental activists around the world are calling for a “Green Recovery” after the coronavirus pandemic ends, to address the even larger crisis looming over us: climate change. …
For the last few years the NYC subway system has cut back the number of unionized cleaning crews, and it shows. …
We stand with the family of Sean Reed, another young black man who has been needlessly and brutally killed by cops in Indianapolis. …
Then comes COVID-19 and our delicately balanced lives as gig workers come tumbling down …
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth – 138 billion dollars right now – is more than the GDP of over 130 countries across the globe. And it’s only getting bigger. …
While visiting a medical supply distributor in Pennsylvania last week, Trump announced he is planning for future pandemics. …
For several weeks, Trump has been playing on the distress of millions of us who have lost our jobs to rev up support for re-opening businesses …
As of April 24, the State of Georgia began the process of reopening at the direction of Republican Governor Brian Kemp. …
In the U.S. there are 470,000 dwellings with inadequate plumbing. Nearly a million homes lack complete and functioning kitchens. More than 4 million …
In April and May, renters scraped money together to make rent payments, even though millions have lost work due to the COVID-19 crisis. While 36 million people in the U.S. have filed for unemployment in the last two months, rent …
Joe Biden made a statement recently that flew under the radar in the U.S. press, but made big waves in the Middle East. …
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk went ahead and opened its Fremont, CA plant this Monday, in spite of the Public Health Department order for Alameda County …
Amidst a global pandemic, with the climate crisis still looming in the background, the Trump administration has dismantled a number of environmental protections. …
While there have been some efforts at collaboration, it has become apparent that the search for a viable vaccine is ultimately driven by wasteful competition among governments and profiteering corporations. …
Blame is the name of the game, and with the coronavirus spreading rapidly through meat processing facilities, politicians are playing hard at blaming workers. …
Over two million dollars has been donated by people around the world to help Navajo and Hopi Native American communities get necessary supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. …
Dozens of sanitation workers in New Orleans went on strike for COVID safety equipment last Wednesday, May 6. …
Four years ago, Trump campaigned on the slogan, “Build the wall!” He was fueling the economic fears of U.S. workers whose real income had gone …
We are living through one of the greatest health crises in world history. So why are so many U.S. health care workers out of work? …
Politicians are rushing to reopen the economy and they don’t care how many coffins they fill. …
Although Covid-19 sparked the current economic crisis, it is not the root cause. In late March and early April, experts projected a recession similar to the 2008 “great recession” was coming. …
Agribusinesses are destroying massive amounts of food while people across the United States are standing in lines at food banks …
In late April, President Trump ordered that meatpacking plants reopen after they were shut down because of COVID-19. He is more concerned about the companies’ profits than workers’ lives. …
As New Jersey – like other states – sees billions in tax dollars disappear during the COVID-19 pandemic, we already hear talk of massive budget shortfalls! What does this mean? You guessed it …
On Wednesday, after saying that he was planning to dismantle the White House coronavirus task force, Trump reversed course and said that he would keep …
The deep racism of this society has shown itself again. Ahmaud Arbery, a young African American man in Georgia, was hunted down by two men …
A recent study finds that global warming will impact humanity even more intensely, and sooner than previously thought. According to the research, for every 1ºC increase in global temperature, one billion people will be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat. …
According to a new paper by the University of California, Berkeley, high carbon-emitting industries have much lower import taxes than cleaner industries. …
Report From a Childcare Worker: I had to turn them down to keep my family safe, a difficult decision …
Most working-class families in the United States didn’t have access to professional childcare before COVID-19 hit, and they don’t now. …
Starting May 6, New York City’s subway system is shuttered every night between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. for cleaning and disinfecting during the pandemic. …
On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. …
Dr. Fauci, the head of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, has been forced to contradict and make up for these stupid statements. …
With cases just beginning to surge in many states, testing still lagging, and no contact tracing, the U.S. disaster is only just beginning. …
BART is operating as if it is business as usual, endangering the lives of workers and riders. …
Although comfort and economic security are great things, they shouldn’t cost time to live …
On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt took action …
The federal government just gave the fossil fuel industry at least $50 million dollars of taxpayer money, which probably won’t have to be paid back. …
Senator Mitch McConnell announced a week ago that Congress wouldn’t provide any money to support state government employee pension funds. …
Across the United States, as of last week there were over 50,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 10,000 deaths in nursing homes and other senior living facilities. …
Count to ten. Guess what? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made $30,182 while you were counting. …
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