In Brief
Shifting CDC Guidelines Expose an Unequal System
It’s easy to understand why people are hesitant to believe official information …
COVID-19
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Big Pharma: Cutting Corners, Risking Lives
Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective …
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Will Public Transportation Survive the Pandemic?
Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …
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Worst Year Ever? It’s not 2020 – It’s Capitalism
2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …
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Herd Immunity: A Game of Chance
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …
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New York City has big problems – and Wall Street and the Politicians Make Them Worse!
New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …
In Brief
“Lucky To Have A Job”
Is it really “lucky” to have to work in the midst of a pandemic? Meanwhile, the super-rich are still getting richer. …
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CDC: Ignoring Science, Appeasing the Trump Administration
As numbers of new U.S. infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain high, as U.S schools reopen and workers are called back into work, and as second waves of infection have begun to show up internationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly changed its COVID-19 guidelines and is recommending less testing in the U.S. …
In Brief
Breaking Deadly Records: The U.S. Healthcare System
During the Spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. …
In Brief
Coronavirus Cures Brought to You by…the MyPillow Guy?
The latest coronavirus “cure”? The highly toxic compound oleandrin, found in the poisonous plant, oleander. …
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Convalescent Blood Plasma: FDA approves of another treatment for COVID
This week the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another treatment for patients with COVID-19. This treatment relies on blood transfusions from patients who’ve recovered from the virus, and thus are would have antibodies present in their blood. …
In Brief
Postal Workers Resist Attacks
Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …
Online Town Hall Videos
Videos of Townhall: Economist Jack Rasmus Speaking About “What Lies Ahead”
Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …
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Schools Forced to Choose: Learn Remotely or Risk Lives
As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. …
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Tech Companies Are in It for Themselves
As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …
Frontlines
Safety Net with Huge Holes – Alameda Health System Attacks Healthcare Workers
For months healthcare workers have been called “heroes.” But what we have also seen is an attack on the working conditions of these very same workers. …
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Fire! Climate Catastrophe at Home
A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …
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Kodak and Trump Playing with Taxpayers’ Dollars
Recently, the Trump administration announced a new development in U.S. pharmaceuticals. The Kodak Film Company is expected to be given a $765 million loan to help launch a new wing of the company producing generic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. …
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Fear and Mistrust: Vaccine Production in the U.S.
A Gallup poll recently found that 35% of Americans wouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available right now, at no cost to them …
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The United States: An Awakening Decades in the Making
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
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Arizona School Teachers and Staff Fight Back against COVID
Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough …
In Brief
New Jersey Public Transit: It Should be Free!
As August began in New Jersey, we were once again forced to pay for transit. …
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As Millions Lose Their Jobs, Politicians Disagree on the Crumbs to Give Workers
For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …
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U.S. Shows Workers Can Return to Work Safely – If they are NBA Players!
The National Basketball Association, along with the millionaires and billionaires who own the teams, and the mega corporations that invest in …
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Pro-Big Business CDC Facilitates a More Swift Return to Work
The CDC now recommends looking at symptoms instead of test results to decide when employees can return to work …
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Rising Evictions Show the Priorities of This System
Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …
Frontlines
Healthcare Workers are Not Giving Up
There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …
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Public Transit in Crisis
Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …
Online Town Hall Videos
Videos of Townhall: COVID-19: A Natural Event But a Human Made Catastrophe, with Epidemiologist Rob Wallace
While viruses do occur naturally, there is very little that is natural about the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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Highland Workers Walk Out
Workers at Highland Hospital are walking out for the safety of their patients and themselves …
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Who to Blame for California’s New Lockdown?
On Monday, July 13, with coronavirus cases in California rising steeply, Governor Gavin Newsom reintroduced some restrictions on the reopening …
In Brief
COVID-19 Is Not a Hoax!
At Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a 30-year-old man who attended a so-called “COVID party” died after being infected with the virus …
Articles
Maquilas and Coronavirus: Mexican Workers Fight U.S. Corporations and Government for the Right to Live
The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …
In Brief
Millions Deprived of Health Coverage When We Need It Most
5.4 million people lost health insurance coverage in the U.S. during the pandemic between February and May …
In Brief
Trump Administration on the Pandemic: “People Will Get Over It”
The administration is “of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it…the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day” …
In Brief
Brazil’s President Tests Positive for COVID
Jair Bolsonaro, has just tested positive for COVID-19. …
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Nurses Fight to Stop Workplace Violence
Nurses at St. Rose Hospital fight back! …
Editorials
U.S. Politicians are Guilty of Murder!
The U.S. is currently number one in all coronavirus statistics and far ahead of all …
In Brief
Nursing Homes Evict Non-profitable Patients
The epicenter for the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been nursing homes, where over 40% of the total number of deaths in the country have occurred. …
In Brief
Phoenix Trump Rally: Spreading Misinformation is State-Sanctioned, but Protesting Lies is Unlawful
On Tuesday, Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona at the Dream City megachurch …
In Brief
COVID-19 Reality is Scary. So is Trump’s Denial.
At his political rally in Tulsa last Saturday, Trump said he wants to reduce testing for COVID-19 …
In Brief
Second Wave? No, We’re Still in the First
Due to all 50 states in the U.S. reopening after months of shelter-in-place, some are talking about a “second wave” of COVID-19 infections …
In Brief
Who Would Have Thought?
Who would have thought in January 2020 that …
Articles
First Covid-19, and Now Hunger Too
Recent drone footage of New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas has shown long lines of people waiting to get a bit of food …
Education Newsletter
June 2020 Education Newsletter
After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland. …
Frontlines
Profits Over People in Primary Care
COVID-19 is not the only virus that needs to be stopped, but also for profit healthcare …
Articles
The Price is Wrong: Vaccine for Profit
In the past several weeks, vaccine development in the U.S has gotten a lot of attention …
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Navajo Nation Tragedy: Not All Communities Suffer COVID-19 Equally
The Navajo Nation has suffered more COVID-19 cases than eight U.S. states combined …
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India: Capitalism and the Coronavirus Killing People
In late March, India implemented one of the world’s most severe lockdowns …
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California Budget Crisis: We Should Not Pay for the Crisis They Created!
As a result of the crippled economy and the costs ofresponding to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments across the country face massive budget crises …
