If you’re old, poor, and African American or Hispanic-Latinx, your chances of infection are especially high and odds of survival significantly lower. The economic downturn could drive the number of homeless to 800,000, an increase of 40% to 45%.
Despite the outpouring of praise for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, their own interests continue to come second to the broader public’s need for cheap and reliable labor.
If the work of abolition is not only about stopping prisons, but also about imagining a future in which we win, then people cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry factory.
Do we want to provide care for the most vulnerable members of our society, or do we want this to just be a business where real estate owners are making money, and we don’t really care...
Notes From Leaders, Activists, Scholars and Journalists
Drawing a line between front-line workers and the military misses the point.
As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.
John Deranamie is a 50-year-old Liberian man whose dream led him to a meatpacking plant in South Dakota. He contracted COVID-19 as part of his job.
After working together on the Sanders campaign, the United Electrical Workers union and the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, channeling insurgent energy into new fights for social justice.
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