Tag: pandemic
Tribes mount organized responses to COVID-19, in contrast to state and...
The story of inequity is imbued with dispossession of lands and is met with organizing from the inside: two crucial points for untangling and responding to COVID-19.
Meet the volunteer organizing team helping non-union workers during the pandemic
EWOC is an experiment in running a labor organizing project through a large network of volunteers outside of formal unions or worker centers.
“It’s going to be a billionaire Thanksgiving.” Wealth of US richest...
“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”
As hunger soars across nation, US trade & foreign policy is...
Hunger was already at alarming levels in the U.S. before the pandemic, and it’s only gotten worse.
Pandemic lockdowns caused ‘just a tiny blip’ in climate-polluting emissions, WMO...
The news comes as it's more critical than ever to seriously tackle rising global emissions.
Senate proposes almost $700 billion for the Pentagon while millions of...
With the current unemployment rate reaching roughly 6.8 million and nearly 8 million Americans facing eviction, the government should be focusing on its citizens and not a defense budget.
Over 130 Secret Service officers in isolation due to COVID outbreak
One government official stated that the agency is backtracing to determine whether most of the infections took place during Trump’s campaign rallies or at the White House.
President-elect Biden’s new COVID-19 task force gives the US a fresh...
Will there be a cohesive message from the top?
In rural America, resentment over COVID-19 shutdowns is colliding with rising...
The early compassionate and cohesive community responses to COVID-19 quickly gave way to growing anger and compliance fatigue.
Tesla delivers record number vehicles amid pandemic doubling third-quarter profits
Third quarter net profit was at $331 million making Tesla on course to turn an annual profit for the first time ever.
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Trump backs Senate GOP’s pay freeze for federal workers while giving the rich a...
“In the context of budgetary constraints and the recent, pandemic-related impacts on non-Federal labor markets, the Administration supports the policy in the bill to maintain for 2021 the current level of Federal civilian employee pay.”
‘Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won’t be missed,’ says Sanders as billionaire education secretary attacks...
“What do you call a billionaire who registered a $40 million, 164-foot yacht in the Cayman Islands to avoid $2.4 million in U.S. taxes, while undermining public schools? The worst Education Secretary in the history of America.”
Former police officers sentenced to prison for framing innocent man
“These officers shattered the victims’ lives and dishonored the Honolulu Police Department. This community deserved so much better from these officers.”
Critics smell ‘economic sabotage’ as McConnell unveils COVID plan with $0 for unemployment boost,...
"As the Covid crisis only grows more deadly, this disgraceful proposal puts the lives of everyday Americans at even greater risk."
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.