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How Amazon Workers Are Organizing for the Long Haul

Amazonians United Labor Notes
As the dust now settles and the company seeks to revoke temporary gains such as a $2 wage increase and unlimited unpaid time off, it is important to work out a long-term strategy for building power.

Cancel the Rent

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker
Evictions and foreclosures in the U.S. could trigger a new wave of infection and illness—but it’s not too late to act.

This Empire Has No Clothes: In the Classroom That Zoom Built

Belle Chesler Tom Dispatch
Today, all we’re left with is a deafening silence that muffles the sound of so much suffering. The unfolding public health, mental health, and economic crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the fragility of what was.

After Wrecking the Gulf, Big Oil Is Worsening the COVID-19 Crisis

Sue Sturgis Facing South
"controlled burn" of oil spill
But oil industry pollution doesn't hurt human health in times of disaster only. It turns out that a common type of pollution emitted by the oil industry during normal operations may be making exposed people more vulnerable to the COVID-19.