Author: Stephen Millies

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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. […]
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Covid-19

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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Covid-19

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

The pandemic isn’t equal: Coronavirus hits the poor at most dangerous rate

April 5, 2020 Stephen Millies
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Forty-five refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 3, 51,810 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison […]
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Venezuela

World’s biggest drug pusher indicts Venezuela

April 2, 2020 Stephen Millies
On March 26, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, said that Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, was “flooding” the United States with cocaine. Three days later, President Trump claimed that health care workers risking their lives […]
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Covid-19

Profits more precious than life

March 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
We hold this truth to be self-evident: that Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about the millions of workers who’ve lost their jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown. So why does Trump want to wind […]
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Covid-19

Trump spurs racist attacks on Asian Americans

March 27, 2020 Stephen Millies
Never forget Vincent Chin “It’s not fair.” Those were the last words of Vincent Chin outside a McDonald’s in Highland Park, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. The 27-year-old was beaten to death by two white […]