New Nurse Limbo
Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers.
Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell
this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell. As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In […]
A Healthcare Crisis Made Worse
Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility: we were already navigating a health care crisis
No Excuses
Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior.
An Ode to Capitalism
Poetry from an Oakland Kaiser Worker
Landlords Use COVID-19 Crisis to Exploit Tenants for Sex
To the wealthy, we are things to exploit, not people who deserve respect. Nothing could make this more clear than the sick fact that landlords are using the current economic crisis to demand sexual favors.
Coronavirus: Demonstrating the Possible
To all previously requesting to work at home, management’s actions are like a slap in the face
More Free Money for Millionaires? You’ve Got to be Kidding!
Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, millionaires in the U.S. stand to receive a lot more than $1,200. They’re getting $1.6 million in deductions, EACH.
Smithfield Foods: Profits over People’s Health
The Smithfield pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a huge eight-story meat processing plant that employs 3,700 workers.
Trump Shamefully Cuts World Health Organization Funding
Here we are, in the middle of a global pandemic and what does the Trump administration do? Cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump’s “Opening Our Country Council” – Unqualified, Untrustworthy, Unacceptable
Trump has formed a committee he calls the “Opening Our Country Council,” supposedly a committee of experts to figure out how to relax social distancing measures
Destroying Food While People Starve
3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blood Money at New York’s MTA
Over 10,000 people have died in New York City from the coronavirus. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if governments had taken the pandemic seriously
It’s No Accident that Getting Government Help “is Like Trying to Break into a Bank”
The main reason it’s so hard to access social programs is that governments intentionally want to pay out as little as possible
We’re All in This Together
From a Mental Health Hotline Worker: No one is in this alone.
Hydroxychloroquine: Another Dangerous Lie, Brought to You by Trump
For several weeks now, President Trump has been pushing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure for COVID-19. One minute, he insists the drug will help, then the next minute he admits he doesn’t know, but says you should take it anyway because, according to him, it can’t kill you, and you have nothing […]
Scientists – Take Action!
From a Biotech Student: This pandemic begs the question; what kind of world are we graduating into?
Around the World: People Behind Bars Revolt Just to Live
Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high.
Trump: Saving Face Before Saving Lives
At a press conference in March, President Trump said that “nobody knew” there’d be a pandemic of this proportion. He’s lying.
The COVID-19 Housing Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. In response, the federal government has done nothing for renters or mortgage holders.
Prisoners in Kansas Revolt Against the Virus
Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires.
Book Review: The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, opens with a quote from Fredrick Douglass: “My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators.”
The American Nightmare
From a Contract Worker: This crisis is demonstrating the precariousness of my situation.
The COVID-19 Chokehold
Frontline Health Care Worker in North Jersey: Our frontline workers are in a chokehold.
Why is Ecuador the Hardest-Hit Country in South America by COVID-19?
The deep social inequality in Ecuador is a key reason the country has been vulnerable to this pandemic
“Essential” Workers: Building the Keystone XL Pipeline!?
Montana Governor Steve Bullock is allowing construction to begin on the infamous Keystone XL oil pipeline in Montana.
COVID-19 Isn’t Racist, but the System Is!
Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people?
We Have to Protect Our Interests
From an Oakland Bus Driver: We can’t afford to wait for someone else to make sure we’re okay.
Lying About a Pandemic – a U.S. Government Tradition
The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic.
A Game of Pretend
From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade.
Coronavirus claims an unexpected victim: Florida vegetables
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus.
The Arabian Peninsula: Imperialism Prepared the Way for the Coming COVID-19 Crisis
By now, COVID-19 has spread around the world, to every continent where human beings live. Daily life has been upended, and tens of thousands have died, with millions more at risk. This is in addition to the horrific problems that poor and working class people are being made to suffer globally due to an unstable […]
Hawai’i Residents Fight to Protect Their Communities in the Midst of COVID-19
As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents.
Know Your Rights
From a Bay Area Worker: This crisis has turned our lives upside down.
Hazard Work – But No Hazard Pay?
Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such.
Seeking Help in a Broken System
Ten million people have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks. Hundreds of thousands more were unable to do so, due to flooded call centers and jammed websites. New York State normally processes 50,000 claims weekly, but in the last week of March received over 8.2 million. In New Mexico, a state with a […]
France: Little Confidence in the Government
Le Monde (the world), a French newspaper, reported on two recent polls of the French population. The polls showed that nearly two in three French people think that the government is lying to them about the management of the epidemic: 63% believe that the government is “hiding things”, 70% think that the government “does not […]
The International Coronavirus
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, March 29 According to an AFP count, by Friday, March 27th at 11 am (Paris time), the coronavirus had already killed more than 25,000 people worldwide, two-thirds of them in Europe. Hundreds of thousands have been diagnosed, yet the figures […]
The COVID-19 Housing Crisis – Eviction Moratoriums are Not Enough
With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks
Brazil – The Most Inefficient President in the World Risks Workers’ Lives
Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need.
An Impossible Choice
Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely.
Taking it Online — Oakland Teachers and Parents Oppose Privatization
Oakland Education Worker:
In the midst of a global pandemic, families face illness, unemployment, eviction, and hunger.
Rona19 – A Personal Account
Bay Area, California Resident:
I haven’t had to get out of bed this early for years. I do because I am not going out like this.
Homeless in the Time of COVID-19
To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in?
The Digital Divide
Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access
Food Deserts in a Pandemic
Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19: A Capitalist Pandemic
The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic has created a healthcare disaster. Early on, when information was coming from China, Trump said that the virus was not a threat and it would soon go away. For weeks, he and other politicians stood by while the virus […]
Pandemic Stimulus: The Priorities of Their System Laid Bare
The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations
Education Under COVID-19 – Exposing a World of Inequalities
As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes
France: Die first, demand later?
Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it.