Author: Stephen Millies

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Fight racism

Rudy Giuliani’s 1992 police riot

June 9, 2020 Stephen Millies
The demonstrations sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are not riots. They are uprisings of millions against racist police violence.     It’s the cops who are rioting with their […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to retire

June 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
Seventy-year-old Enock Benjamin never got to retire. The United Food and Commercial Workers union steward died of COVID-19 on April 3. Born in Haiti, Benjamin was one of many workers from other lands employed in […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to use a bathroom

May 24, 2020 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to a funeral

May 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
No millionaire has ever been executed in the United States. Hardly any rich people have been buried in New York City’s Potter’s Field. Over a million poor people are interred there on Hart Island off […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: Seniors are not roadkill

May 16, 2020 Stephen Millies
Why are so many people in nursing homes dying from the coronavirus? Over 28,000 people across the United States have died in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.  Nearly 35 percent of the COVID-19 […]
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In the U.S.

Tom Cotton needs an education

May 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
Sen. Tom Cotton wants to stop Chinese college students from studying science in the United States. The Arkansas statesman told Fox News on April 26 that “if Chinese students want to come here and study […]
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Covid-19

Workers’ lives before meatpacker profits

May 6, 2020 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump celebrated Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by ordering dangerously unsafe meatpacking and poultry plants to remain open. Twenty workers in the industry have already died and nearly 5,000 have tested positive for […]
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Labor and strikes

Hands off the post office!

May 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
The post office is needed now more than ever. Postal workers are delivering prescription medicines and plenty of other mail and packages to people’s homes during this health crisis. They’re doing so at the risk […]
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Covid-19

Blaming the victims

April 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
Have any union members been seen at the recent Tea Party rallies at the state capitols? Working and poor people need jobs and income. But they’re not too keen on rolling back the absolutely necessary […]
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Covid-19

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. […]