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It’s No Accident that Getting Government Help “is Like Trying to Break into a Bank”
The main reason it’s so hard to access social programs is that governments intentionally want to pay out as little as possible …
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. …
Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …
From an Oakland Bus Driver: We can’t afford to wait for someone else to make sure we’re okay. …
The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …
From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade. …
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus. …
By now, COVID-19 has spread around the world, to every continent where human beings live. …
As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents. …
From a Bay Area Worker: This crisis has turned our lives upside down. …
Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such. …
Ten million people have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks. Hundreds of thousands …
Le Monde (the world), a French newspaper, reported on two recent polls of the French …
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, …
With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks …
Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …
Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely. …
Oakland Education Worker:
In the midst of a global pandemic, families face illness, unemployment, eviction, and hunger. …
Bay Area, California Resident:
I haven’t had to get out of bed this early for years. I do because I am not going out like this. …
To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in? …
Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access …
Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic …
The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus …
The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …
As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes …
Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …
Regardless of their offense, many people now in prison are sentenced to death by Covid-19. …
The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does. …
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …
On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …
You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …
Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …
Childhelp, a national anonymous hotline to report child abuse, has reported a 23 percent increase in calls and a 263 percent increase in texts for March 2020 compared to March 2019. …
“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …
Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …
Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday …
California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits …
As wealthy countries rush to protect capital, people around the world continue to suffer. …
Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …
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