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The Earth Needs Us to Organize: The EPA Protects Polluters, Citing Coronavirus
On March 25, the EPA announced it is rolling back environmental protections in response to the coronavirus. …
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 …
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 …
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