Seeking Help in a Broken System
Ten million people have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks. Hundreds of thousands …
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. …
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 …
Presentations from Online Townhall • The Coronavirus Pandemic: Their System Can’t Protect Us • March 28, 2020 …
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 …
Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …
The Trump administration’s unprecedented indifference, even willful neglect, forced a catastrophic strategic surprise on to the American people …
How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming youths will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come. …
California has the worst housing crisis in the country—so bad that, when Governor Gavin Newsom took office, in 2019, he used his inaugural address to call for a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing,” …
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …
New York City is the center of the coronavirus crisis right now, and many people …
On March 23rd, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report with daunting new information on the coronavirus …
European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. …
Healthcare workers protested the lack of protective equipment (PPE) outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Oakland, …
Sixers employees were about to take pay cuts … until Joel Embiid stepped in …
Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …
On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …
On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …
For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …
While Fox news was denying coronavirus was a problem, Fox’s owner was acting differently. …
With many people out of work due to coronavirus’ impact on their industry or their health, some Bay Area cities and counties are offering modest relief to renters …
Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households …
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …
Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves. …
David and Denise Morse were sent to the California air force base after 21 people on their Grand Princess cruise were diagnosed with coronavirus …
Fed up with unsanitary working conditions, bus operators in Detroit refused to drive the buses …
At the end of 2019, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, began a massive …
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