From an Oakland Healthcare Worker Over one hundred nurses demonstrated in front of Kaiser Oakland today. A few weeks ago, nurses protested management’s retaliation against them for bringing their own personal protective equipment (PPE) from home. Now, between the...
From an Oakland Kaiser Worker You have me as an essential worker You have me ‘til death do us part from work “Essential” – you call me Dispensable – you make me feel BUT I know deep in my veins You are nothing without me OR anything...
From a Mental Health Call Line Worker I am a program coordinator for the California Warm Line (CAWL), which is a call line for people living in California who are having mental health challenges and are looking for emotional support through empathy and validation. In...
From a Frontline Health Care Worker in North Jersey In early March 2020, workers of a rehabilitation center in Northern Jersey were told that their facility was being repurposed by the federal government to house the excess COVID-19 patients overrunning the local...
The news media and many politicians have acted shocked that African American people are getting COVID-19 and dying from it at much higher rates than white people. As the numbers keep coming out, it has become impossible even for racist-in-chief, Trump, to ignore. He...
