China
Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from lab Guardian
Australian intelligence knocks back US government’s Wuhan lab virus claim Sydney Morning Herald
The white supremacist colonial mind cannot cognitively process the possibility that the Chinese contained the coronavirus and had a death rate a fraction of the rate in the U.S.
— Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) May 5, 2020
The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration Democracy Now
Labor
Striking Bus Drivers Steer the Way to a Better World In These Times
U.S. Workplace Safety Rules Missing In The Pandemic NPR
NYC Amazon Worker Dies From Coronavirus Gothamist
Coronavirus
3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead. NYTimes
2 Die From the Virus at a Bronx Bus Depot, and Drivers Are Rattled NYTimes
For the Workers of the World the Pandemic is Based on Inequality Internationalist 360°
They blasted “Live and Let Die” while Trump walked around a Honeywell plant today in Arizona without a mask. It’s hard to believe this clip is real. pic.twitter.com/M1dMe8KaMK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 5, 2020
Betsy DeVos sued for seizing student borrowers’ paychecks in violation of the CARES Act: “We don’t care. We don’t have to.” Condemned to DEBT
Climate change
‘Planet of the Humans.’ A (long-form) review of… the reviews. Paul Mobbs, author “Energy Beyond Oil”
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