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Reader Comments: May Day Actions, Celebrations; Toll on Healthcare and All Essential Workers; Trump and Meat Plants; Back-to-Work and Death; Cuomo Power Grab; Cuban Healthcare Workers; Unequal Burden of Covid-19; Earth Day @50; lots of announcements

With a year to live, and confined to bed by injury and illness, the great Mexican artist transformed her bedroom into a sanctuary - and turned her pain into magnificent work.

Coronavirus has created a unique May Day: for the first time in 130 years, workers of the world will not take to the streets. Physical distancing, however, doesn’t mean that we are far away from each other: we should stay together in solidarity.

Cuomo gifted himself “rolling budget adjustment” powers, which allows him to make cuts on a quarterly basis with little to no oversight. Meanwhile, he refuses to raise taxes on his billionaire donors which could fill the budget gap.

States tell workers they'll lose unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to jobs.

‘He had the power to start a fire with his voice’

The native plant movement and backyard habitat projects seek to re-create livable natural spaces for endangered pollinators and other animals.

This book is a new and innovative look at a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history.

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Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus