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Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers & the Fight Against Covid

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Date:
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Haymarket Books
Location Details:
Online

Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers and the Fight Against Covid

Join this panel event where front line health care workers discuss waging an intersectional, anti-racist fight against Covid-19.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 @ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-from-the-front-line-health-care-workers-and-the-fight-against-covid-tickets-114698514344?aff=erelexpmlt

With states reopening around the country despite record levels of Covi-19 cases and a growing death toll as well as a national debate about whether public schools are safe to resume in-person classes this fall, it is clear that government officials don’t care about the human cost of this pandemic. Health care workers on the front lines of the crisis have been in the trenches, seen the devastation first hand and continue to organize against the inactions and callousness of the policy-makers.

Hear from front line nurses and health care workers about their battles in the hospitals and the nursing homes against Covid-19 and why the fight against this pandemic is intricately linked to the struggle for Black lives and for dignity and respect in the workplace.

What is the current shape of the Covid-19 crisis? How is it impacting ordinary people and health care systems and what can we be doing to fight back?

Speakers:

Elizabeth Lalasz is a registered nurse at Stroger Hospital in Chicago, a steward with
National Nurses United, and delegate to the upcoming 2020 California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Convention. She contracted COVID-19 and then returned to work on a COVID-only unit that primarily served people incarcerated in Cook County Jail.

Sarah Jaffe is the author of "Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt" and a Type Media Center reporting fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive and New Labor Forum.

Additional speakers TBA
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jul 26, 2020 12:02PM
§RECORDED LIVESTREAM LINK HERE
by Haymarket Books
Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers and the Fight Against Covid

This panel discussion event was recorded and is now available for viewing anytime.

Recording of livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_74zCgTge9Q
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