Coronavirus
What Happened When Health Officials Wanted to Close a Meatpacking Plant, but the Governor Said No ProPublica
70% of inmates test positive for coronavirus at Lompoc federal prison LATimes
The Class Divide: Remote Learning at 2 Schools, Private and Public NYTimes
Doctor Fired for Refusing to House Elderly With Possible COVID-19 Patient, Suit Alleges Mississippi Free Press
China
The Plot to Blame China for COVID-19 Counterpunch
Labor
The Ride Gets Rougher: Gig Workers Organize Through a Pandemic Common Dreams
NYC Chipotle Employees Protest Unsafe Working Conditions MSN
Truck Drivers Petition Ports of LA for COVID-19 Items, Benefits My News LA
Kroger plans to eliminate ‘Hero Pay’ for grocery workers, UFCW Unions respond KDVR
In-Store Instacart Shoppers in Chicago Get OK for Union Vote Bloomberg
Indigenous Peoples
How the Algonquin have faced nearly 200 years of disease outbreaks and survived
Capitalist crisis
Women have been hit hardest by job losses in the pandemic. And it may only get worse. Washington Post
The debt dilemma Michael Roberts
Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America Climate & Capitalism
Climate change
Planet of the Humans backlash Yves Engler
The backlash may be more revealing than the film itself, but both inform us where we are at in the fight against climate change and ecological collapse. The environmental establishment’s frenzied attacks against Planet of the Humans says a lot about their commitment to big-money and technological solutions. …
Despite the hullabaloo, the central points in the film aren’t particularly controversial. Corporate-industrial society is driving human civilization/humanity towards the ecological abyss and environmental groups have largely made peace with capitalism. As such, they tout (profitable) techno fixes that are sometimes more ecologically damaging than fossil fuels (such as biomass or ethanol) or require incredible amounts of resources/space if pursued on a mass scale (such as solar and wind). It also notes the number of human beings on the planet has grown more than sevenfold over the past 200 years.
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