Coronavirus COVID-19

How Postal Workers Saved The Election

November 26, 2020 Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. Organize! 2020 Election, Coronavirus COVID-19, Louis DeJoy, Post Office

The story of mail ballots in 2020 is the story of a union postal workforce willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that every vote got delivered. Postal workers did this despite the deliberate holdups created by new Postmaster General Louis “Delay the Mail” DeJoy, and a workforce hit hard by COVID. More than 65 million people voted by mail this fall—a record. And the Postal Service has been working at reduced numbers for months. As of August 40,000 postal employees had been forced to quarantine. Roscoe Woods, president of the 480–481 Area Local of the Postal Workers (APWU) near Detroit, said the workforce he represents is down 30 percent.

First Person: Sick And Afraid Inside San Quentin

August 6, 2020 Kevin Cooper, ScheerPost.com. Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Death Row, Health Care, Prisoner rights

Death Row San Quentin Prison - We men and women who unfortunately have been sentenced to death and sent to death rows here at San Quentin State Prison (for men) and the Central California Women’s Facility at Chowchilla have often been referred to as the “walking dead” or “Dead Man Walking,” as made famous by the 1995 movie, starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, about a death row inmate. We were called these names long before the COVID-19 pandemic came upon us all, seemingly out of nowhere. After it came on the scene, we death row inmates got a double dose of death.

To Fight Coronavirus, Fight Poverty

March 21, 2020 By Kait Ziegler, Otherwords.org Create! Coronavirus COVID-19, Ideology, Inequality

As Americans do everything they can to stay safe and limit their exposure to COVID-19, we are seeing more clearly the great divides in our society. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we are seeing that its impacts certainly do. In a pandemic, there’s a huge difference between having health care and not having it, between getting paid sick time off work and not, and having access to clean water and housing and lacking it.

Cuba And The Concept Of Community Of Nations

March 21, 2020 Bill Hackwell, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, Solidarity

Some years ago I was talking to a Cuban doctor about what a remarkable achievement it was that Cuba was able to eliminate Malaria in 1973. He took the discussion in stride and said that it didn’t mean much until we eradicate Malaria in the entire world. Today Cuba is proving once again that their view of health and battling diseases is one that is global in scope and despite living under the unilateral 60-year-old US blockade, with additional sanctions coming their way daily...

An Economic Recovery Program—Theirs vs. Mine

March 20, 2020 Jack Rasmus, Zcomm.org Create! Coronavirus COVID-19, Finance and the Economy

The Coronavirus has been wrecking the US and global economies. While focus has been on addressing the biological devastation wrought by the virus, the economic devastation keeps growing. Failure to properly address the deepening economic impact of the coronavirus has been no less shocking to date than the obvious failure of politicians...

Coronavirus And The ‘Shock Doctrine’

March 20, 2020 By Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson, Otherwords.org Strategize! Coronavirus COVID-19, Inequality, Pandemic, Recession

In times of crisis like the current coronavirus pandemic, these sorts of calls for cooperation become the drumbeat of our daily lives. Unfortunately, no drumbeat ever gets everybody marching in sync. In deeply unequal societies like our own, a wealthy few can exploit such catastrophes to make themselves even wealthier. Back in 2007, Naomi Klein explored this phenomenon brilliantly in her landmark book The Shock Doctrine.

Public Health Experts: Single-Payer Systems Coping With Coronavirus More Effectively Than For-Profit Model

March 20, 2020 By Jake Johnson, Nationofchange.org Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Public Health, Single-Payer

As the coronavirus pandemic places extraordinary strain on national healthcare systems around the world, public health experts are making the case that countries with universal single-payer systems have thus far responded more efficiently and effectively to the outbreak than nations like the United States...

Capitalism Is An Incubator For Pandemics. Socialism Is The Solution.

March 20, 2020 Mike Pappas and Tatiana Cozzarelli, Leftvoice.org Create! Capitalism, Coronavirus COVID-19

Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That’s why we need socialism. Anew coronavirus called “SARS-CoV-2” — known colloquially by the name of the disease it causes called “coronavirus disease 2019” or “COVID-19” — is wreaking havoc around the world. In Italy, the death toll has risen to 366 today and the country just extended its quarantine measures nationwide.

Small Farms Also Struggle As Restaurants Shut Down Due To Coronavirus

March 19, 2020 Lisa Held, Civileats.com Create! Coronavirus COVID-19, Farms, Restaurants

At Norwich Meadows Farm in upstate New York, Zaid Kurdieh and his wife Haifa grow varieties of vegetables coveted by New York City chefs. If this were a normal week, diners would be enjoying their produce at restaurants like Blue Hill, ABC Kitchen, and Gramercy Tavern. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, however those restaurants are closed indefinitely—creating a dire situation for them and others like them.

We Won’t Pay For This Crisis: An Emergency Program To Protect Working People

March 19, 2020 Staff, Leftvoice.org Create! Coronavirus COVID-19, Crisis, Epidemic, Working Class

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has caused not only a world health crisis, but may also cause a deep economic depression. The fabric of society is becoming strained to the breaking point, and social, economic, and political catastrophes are already erupting in a variety of forms. We live in a society in which our very existence is constantly dominated and constrained by the dual imperatives of profit and competition.

Radical Solidarity Through Covid-19

March 18, 2020 Staff, Mutualaiddisasterrelief.org Organize! Coronavirus COVID-19, Solidarity

Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread. From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through information suppression, governmental inadequacy and unpreparedness as well as supply shortages in panic-economies with global financial markets plummeting. The global pandemic is a disaster enveloping all of the intersections where climate catastrophes typically surge, storm-batter and strand impacted regions, but when every community is a different version of ground zero, sourcing from within, in as much as possible, becomes a critical component.

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things To Do Instead Of Hoarding Toilet Paper

March 18, 2020 Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch, Wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Activism, Coronavirus COVID-19, Pandemic

We’re facing down a global pandemic. If you find yourself saying “Holy shit! What do I do?!” you’re not alone. A renegade bug is showing how deeply broken our system is. Beyond the absolutely critical tasks of taking care of yourself, harm-reduction, social distancing, hand-washing, and looking out for those around us who are most struggling, we must also make that brokenness plain.

Cuba’s Contribution To Combating COVID-19

March 18, 2020 Helen Yaffe, Blog.yalebooks.com Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, Health Care

COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat the spread and to care for those infected. Among the thirty medicines the Chinese National Health Commission...

On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View

March 18, 2020 By Mike Pappas, Leftvoice.org Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Doctors, Health Care

The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe. There seems to be no way of containing it at this point, and health systems are struggling to keep up. The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health.

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