Did You Know? US Gov’t Found Guilty In Conspiracy To Assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1968
Class war
Here’s what Wall Street doesn’t want you to know about its grip on emergency rooms Raw Story
13,000 Carpenters to Strike in Massachusetts PayDay Report
Housing official blocks volunteers from distributing food to public housing residents Baltimore Brew
Coronavirus New York: Ocasio-Cortez Slams Cuomo For Suspending Mortgage Payments, Not Rents IBT
Chipotle Gives Sick Workers the Runaround During Global COVID-19 Pandemic LaborPress
Uproar Among Workers Supplying the World’s Meat Is Spreading Bloomberg
Death Toll From COVID-19 at Oakdale Prison in Louisiana Continues to Climb Reuters
Why GE Workers Walked Out in Lynn The Nation
Trump administration quietly guts COVID-19 paid leave provision that already excluded 75% of workers Salon
The administration also excluded some health workers and first responders from being eligible for paid leave
General Electric Workers Want to Build Medical Equipment to Fight Coronavirus. Management Is Standing in the Way Rolling Stone
Detroit bus driver who complained about a coughing passenger dies of coronavirus days later Washington Post
Amazon’s Plan To Smear And Silence A Fired Worker Failed: “This Country Needs To Wake Up” Gothamist
Historic Injustices Against Native People Put Them at Greater Risk of COVID-19 Truthout
While focus is on the coronavirus, these states are criminalizing fossil fuel protests Independent
Japanese Americans speak out against Andrew Yang’s call for Asian Americans to display patriotism NBC News
American Airlines crammed the only 11 passengers on a flight into 3 rows because they bought basic economy, report says Business Insider
The Coronavirus Meets Authoritarianism in Turkey The New Yorker
Covid-19 coronavirus
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate ProPublica
No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates.
NYPD’s Aggressive Policing Risks Spreading the Coronavirus Intercept
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage Will Oremus
In short, the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets: commercial and consumer. The pandemic has shifted the lion’s share of demand to the latter. People actually do need to buy significantly more toilet paper during the pandemic — not because they’re making more trips to the bathroom, but because they’re making more of them at home.
The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think Vox
Someone’s Screwing You, And It Ain’t China: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Caitlin Johnstone
New York considers loosening requirements for funeral directors as bodies pile up Politico
Coronavirus: ‘More and more’ young people experiencing severe disease, WHO warns Independent
California Valley Miwok Tribe Chairwoman issues statement in response to passage of federal stimulus package Indian Country Today
Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related, coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins PDF – Nature
U.S. war drive
William Barr Greenlit Bush’s Invasion of Panama, Is Venezuela Next? antiwar.com
Capitalist crisis
Hospital Bailouts Begin…for Those Owned by Private Equity Firms Counterpunch
$1.5 Trillion Helicopter Money for Wall Street in 3 Weeks of Fed Bailouts Wolf Street
Services Sector Falls off Cliff: First Data Points from the Eurozone where Lockdowns Started Earlier Wolf Street
Trump Admin Says Millions May Have to Wait 5 Months for $1,200 Relief Check Truthout
Blue-Collar America Braces for Another Devastating Recession Businessweek
When the Invisible Hand Gives You the Finger FAIR
America Is Having an Unemployment Apocalypse. Europe Chose Not to. Foreign Policy
Will coronavirus signal the end of capitalism? aljazeera.com
Global economy in sharpest reversal since Great Depression Financial Times
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