Accidents and diseases resulting from killing animals, birds, fishes...
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:50AM
A worker describes pre- and post-pandemic conditions at a California hospital....
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:29AM
Today, 7.2 million children live in households that owe back rent, with 11.5 million children in.households that can't pay next month’s rent; 41% of renters with.children doubt they can pay rent next month. HR6515 - The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act makes millions of families facing eviction and foreclosure safe in their homes the instant it becomes law....
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 6:16PM
Privilege versus equality.
"The central issue in the conflict between the government and doctors in Saskatchewan is not health insurance, but democracy," noted the Toronto-based newspaper The Globe and Mail after the strike began. "The experts, no matter what their specialty, must always ultimately be subordinate to the laity, or democracy can't work."...
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:47AM
A "new normality" has taken root in our society. A climate of fear and severe, permanent encroachments on fundamental rights are shaping politics and social life. From the beginning of the pandemic, the media and politics have created a reality that almost treats the principles of democracy with contempt. These three articles are translated from the German in nachdenkseiten.de and Graswurzel Revolution....
Posted: Fri Dec 4, 2020 8:07AM
Evictions resulted in more than 10,000 covid-19 deaths!...
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 11:51PM
Person In Wheelchair...
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:24PM
A recent study by the Institute for Policy Studies determined that the 647 billionaires in the USA have been able to increase their assets by $960 billion since the beginning of the corona crisis in mid-March by the cut-off date of November 17. A few hundred super-rich Americans* have thus increased their private wealth in eight months by the same amount as 93 countries together generate in a whole year....
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:58PM
Opioid Drug-Overdose Victim...
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:44AM
Dr. Scott Atlas, a top White House coronavirus adviser, said that Americans should flout public health guidance and gather as normal for the holidays as this may be "the final Thanksgiving" for many.
Photo of Hoover Tower under Creative Commons via flicker. Scott Atlas is on leave from Stanford University's Hoover Institute while he serves under Trump....
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:12AM
Diverse democracy immunizes against authoritarian impositions.
Whether the experiences of the lockdown will result in lasting damage in the sense of a democratically consumptive "new normality" depends not least on whether it is possible to take up and strengthen the very existing democracy-building impulses and initiatives - from "Black Lives Matter" to "Fridays for Future"....
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:04AM
Academic Article on Disability Discrimination and Stephen Hawking, with verified soures. Joy Division reference included....
Posted: Sat Nov 7, 2020 7:57PM
The politically triggered lockdown to combat the pandemic caused 22 million people to lose their jobs abruptly in spring. The subsequent easing of restrictions during the summer months brought back a large part of these jobs, but by no means all of them. The recovery in the USA is clearly losing momentum. Employment growth is slowing down....
Posted: Mon Nov 2, 2020 10:29AM
Change's To Coronavirus Covid-19 CDC Eviction Moratorium:...
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:44PM
Why theology needs to be political again.
Defunding the post office and threatening critics with jail time are perverse, signs of the security state or the authoritarian state....
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:05AM
Kim Cordova, president of UFCW 7 talks about the deaths of eight JBS meat plant workers in Greeley, Colorado from Covid-19. She discusses the failure of OSHA to protect the workers and why her union, the workers and community are protesting at the Denver OSHA office....
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:16AM
Recorded conversations between Donald Trump and reporter Bob Woodward make clear that the White House made a calculated decision to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Why are these recordings being released only now after almost 200,000 people in the United States have died?...
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:17AM
IMF Announces Access to Global "SDRs" Reserve...
Posted: Tue Sep 8, 2020 5:07PM
The consequences of our fossil fuel economy and a global pandemic fall heaviest on America's most vulnerable communities. Elected Officials are saying enough....
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:08AM
Protesting Tenants Demanding That The Rent Must Be Cancelled:...
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:45PM