2017 video shows Georgia officer tried to stun Ahmaud Arbery ABC News
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy NYTimes
Big Pharma
US and UK ‘lead push against global patent pool for Covid-19 drugs’ Guardian
A Drug Company Wagers the U.S. Won’t Dare Charge It With Crimes NYTimes
Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right Daily Beast
Labor
What the Arkansas meat plant workers I met want you to know CNN
These workers feel that their lives are more important than profits and cheap meat, and we should listen to them.
Strikes erupt as US essential workers demand protection amid pandemic Guardian
Wall Street banker blasts employees for not responding to 3 a.m. email NY Post
Poor New York City Neighborhoods Seeing Deaths From Covid at More Than Twice the Rate of Affluent Areas Common Dreams
Coronavirus
Sources say that many nursing homes are purposefully underreporting COVID-19 deaths amNewYork
Florida’s scientist was fired for refusing to ‘manipulate’ COVID-19 data USA Today
Report warns against coronavirus fever-screening devices CBS
Wash hands at least six times a day to reduce risk of catching virus by a third, research finds
China
Virus exposes US double standard on rights Chinadaily
Indigenous Peoples
Marie Pino, Navajo Teacher Who Educated Generations, Dies at 67 NYTimes
A well-known teacher, she was mourning the loss of her son to the virus when she tested positive. Then she died as well, adding to the Navajo Nation’s toll.
Yuri Kochiyama, 1921-2014 FightBack! News
Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues Guardian
How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s deep south ignite rock’n’roll? We unravel the mystery behind Little Richard’s subversive genius
The 1950s queer black performers who inspired Little Richard The Conversation
Climate change
Marx and the Climate Crisis – extract
In the first of two extracts from her new book Marx and the Climate Crisis, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at why individual behaviour has received so much attention and why this is an inadequate approach to the climate crisis
The strongest, most dangerous hurricanes are now far more likely because of climate change, study shows Washington Post
Cyclone Amphan live updates: Cyclonic storm makes landfall between Digha in West Bengal and Hatiya island in Bangladesh Times of India
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