Covid-19

Covid-19

How Covid-19 shows U.S. dependence on workers

April 24, 2020 Gary Wilson
Health care workers, nurses, farmworkers, transit operators, grocery store clerks, warehouse packers, delivery workers, truck drivers, dockworkers, restaurant order takers, call center workers, service and industrial workers form the backbone of the U.S. economy.  When […]
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Longshore union demands protection for members and community

April 24, 2020 Lallan Schoenstein
Leaders and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Locals 10, 34, 75 and 91 protested outside the office of the Stevedores Services of America (SSA) terminal at the Port of Oakland, Calif., […]
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From AIDS to Covid-19

April 21, 2020 Lizz Toledo
From a presentation at the online press conference, “Fighting Racism During the Coronavirus Crisis,” on April 4, 2020. In 1981, a mysterious illness began to appear in the gay community. One of the first and […]
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Baltimore caravan demands protection for prisoners

April 20, 2020 Lev Koufax
On April 18, progressive working-class activists in Baltimore held a car caravan in solidarity with those currently incarcerated in Maryland jails and prisons. The caravan, organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee and the Peoples Power […]
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Coronavirus central in Queens, N.Y.

April 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
As of April 19, some 8,798 people in five adjoining zip codes in the Queens borough of New York City have the coronavirus. About 350,000 people live there. One out of 40 has the virus. […]
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Profits first, patients last

April 17, 2020 Stephen Millies
Two thousand people a day are dying from the coronavirus in the United States. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has begged retired doctors and nurses to return to work. All hands on deck to fight […]
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How China broke the chain of infection

April 16, 2020 Vijay Prashad, Du Xiaojun, Weiyan Zhu
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread. On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to […]
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Capitalism & racism + Covid-19 = murder

April 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies.As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers […]
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Covid-19: Weapons of mass incompetence

April 10, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
April 6 — As of this writing, 10,000 people [in the U.S.] have died from the impact of the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. Ten thousand! And unless I miss my guess, it ain’t over […]
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Maryland grocery worker who wanted to help seniors dies of Covid-19

April 8, 2020 Sharon Black
Twenty-seven-year-old Leilani Jordan told her mother, Zenobia Shepard, “Mommy, I’m going to work because no one else is going to help the senior citizens get their groceries.” Jordan worked at the Giant Food at the […]