Stephen Millies – Page 35 – Struggle

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hospital closings = death

March 23, 2020 Stephen Millies

Will hospitals be able to cope with all the expected patients during the Covid-19 pandemic? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t think so. He told NBC’s Today Show on March 19 that “the health care […]

‘Neutron Jack’ the job killer

March 17, 2020 Stephen Millies

Few tears were shed in Schenectady, N.Y., when former General Electric CEO Jack Welch croaked on March 1. Why should there have been? Welch destroyed 22,000 jobs in GE’s hometown in the 1980s. Welch got […]

Don’t starve, fight!

March 11, 2020 Stephen Millies

Ninety years ago, on March 6, 1930, over a million people demonstrated across the United States for unemployment relief. The Great Depression had broken out a few months before, punctuated by the stock market crash […]

Robert Seth Hayes, ¡Presente!

March 5, 2020 Stephen Millies

Robert Seth Hayes was a freedom fighter who fought for all Black and oppressed people. The Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army member passed away last year on Dec. 21. Hayes was a […]

Bail is ransom for the poor

February 27, 2020 Stephen Millies

An average of 462,000 people were kept in U.S. jails every night last year because they couldn’t afford bail. Their crime was being poor. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill […]

Harlem event: ‘Lift illegal sanctions off Zimbabwe!’

February 25, 2020 Stephen Millies

Fifty-five years after Malcolm X was assassinated, people came to the National Black Theatre in Harlem on Feb. 21 to demand the lifting of illegal sanctions off Zimbabwe. The December 12th Movement organized this important […]