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COVID-Meals Supports Restaurants, Healthcare Workers in Santa Cruz County 
COVID-Meals was created to provide an easy way for anyone to help support our local restaurants while saying thank you to local healthcare workers....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 12:47pm PDT
Stop The Murder! Workers, Covid-19, The Attack On Labor, Our Unions & The Fightback 
WorkWeek hosts a national panel on transit, health and shipping and they talk about the failure of the agencies and companies to protect their health and safety. They also discuss the failure of their union officials in many cases to fight management to educate and protect their members from the virus and pandemic...
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 10:54am PDT
Farmworker Appreciation Caravan in Watsonville 
Check out the Campesino Appreciation Caravan that happened this morning, April 11, in Watsonville!
Share far and wide, and get mobilized in your community!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 7:01pm PDT
History of an eventful myth: the 8-hour day Since industrialization, it has been the norm for wage-earners of all ages, including children, to work 15 to 16 hours a day. There was no time for rest. An impoverishment of the working class was the result....
Posted: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 4:14am PDT
McDonald’s Employees in Bay Area Disrupt Business at Three Locations 
On April 9, McDonald’s employees demonstrated by driving their cars in a manner to disrupt the fast food company’s business at three San Francisco Bay Area locations. They are demanding that the fast food chain give workers masks, gloves and a $3 an hour pay increase....
Posted: Fri, Apr 10, 2020 4:04am PDT
COVID-19 SF DPH Healthcare Workers Under Attack, Health & Safety, Racism & Retaliation 
The COVID pandemic is being used to violate union contracts and retaliate against whistleblowers. This pandemic is also hitting Black workers and their families even more heavily. There is also no enforcement by Governor Newsom's Cal-OSHA which has fewer than 200 inspectors for 18 million workers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 9, 2020 10:26pm PDT
Evacuate the Grand Princess Crew Now! Protest in SF to Free the Seafarers on a Petri Dish 
A solidarity protest was held at Pier 35 in San Francisco demanding that the more than 600 crew members of the Grand Princess be fully tested and be allowed to evacuate the contaminated ship. Instead the Princess Lines, Coast Guard and California governor Gavin Newsom refused to allow them to evacuate the contaminated ship....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 9:51pm PDT
ILWU Seattle Workers & Boss Worked on Contaminated SSA Seattle Terminal 
Seattle ILWU longshore workers were forced to work with a sick SSA manager who might have been infected with Covid-19 and were not informed of the health and safety dangers....
Posted: Mon, Apr 6, 2020 11:54pm PDT
"We do not live in capitalism" After the transition to Atlantic turbo-capitgalism, almost nothing can be recognized from the earlier times of the initiatives of the social market economy. In this situation, the counter-factual and fact-immune creed of all conservatives is enmeshed in a deep unconsciousness about the world. We live in a plutocracy where the richest 62 have as much wealth as the poorer half....
Posted: Sun, Apr 5, 2020 3:23pm PDT
The Struggle Of The Grand Princess Crew & All Crew Members For Healthcare & Justice 
Terry Valen, the president of the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) talks about the conditions of the Grand Princess crew which is docked off Hunters Point shipyard. He also talks about the conditions of repatriated seafarers from the Grand Princess who are now in the Philippines...
Posted: Thu, Apr 2, 2020 5:51pm PDT
On the Power of Money - Three by Eugen Drewermann Only faith (as in a religion), the "invisible hand," the "law" of the "free" market can judge everything. State interventions can only be annoying. The market itself is allegedly "social". Everyone acts acording to his advantage. The system is not social but lives from the creation of permanent and growing injustice. "Needs" can be produced completely irrationally....
Posted: Thu, Apr 2, 2020 6:56am PDT
The economy in the times of the coronavirus Most people’s thinking is determined by the development of the Covid-19 crisis, the return of “the hour of executive power” (Gerhard A. Ritter), i.e. state of exception legislation, and the fears which it evokes as well as the economic measures which appear to be in response to the health crisis....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2020 2:21pm PDT
Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses to Hold Shift Change Actions To Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19 
To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and preparedness for frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital will hold a silent vigil and solidarity stand on Monday, March 30, 2020. Registered nurses are calling on Watsonville Community Hospital to reverse its decision to weaken personal protective equipment standards and cancel staff rather than preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 2:48pm PDT
Grad Students Continue Withholding Grades During Covid-19 Pandemic 
Email from graduate student to UCSC Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor on the day Winter quarter grades are due....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 2:08pm PDT
No More "One Mask Per Shift"! SF NNU Nurses Demand Real Protection At St. Mary's Hospital 
San Francisco NNU CNA nurses rallied on 3/26/20 outside St. Mary's hospital to protest the management's order use the same mask all day which threatens the health and safety of nurses and patients. They collected donated masks and also were angry against the CDC regulations which have been downgraded threatening their health....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2020 6:13pm PDT
Starbucks Let Critical Time Slip Away Before Taking Action During COVID-19 Pandemic 
A March 26 Buzzfeed News article says of Starbucks, “the decisions of a company that employs 220,000 people in the US have had far-reaching consequences in the midst of a virus accelerating faster than most public health systems can keep up with.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2020 5:33pm PDT
California Nurses Association protest in Oakland against lack of protective gear Last Friday, I watched around 4 first responders from a fire truck in Oakland respond to the needs of someone that was hauled off to the hospital. I was shocked that the first responders were not wearing any protective gear or N95 respirators. Barely three days later, nurses from the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United held a protest Monday evening March 23, in front of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. They protested against the lack of protective gear and weakening of stand...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 3:00am PDT
Modolva, COVID-19 & Lessons With Former Federal OSHA Investigator Darrell Whitman 
Former Federal OSHA WPP investigator and lawyer who is now in Moldova reports on how this poor Eastern European country is grappling with the coronavirus unlike the panic in the US....
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 1:17pm PDT
Five Demands for Emergency COVID-19 Survival 
With the Bay Area and now all of California on coronavirus lockdown, millions going without paychecks and health insurance, prisoners and unsheltered folks at great risk of contracting the virus, wheatpaste posters have gone up in Oakland making five reasonable demands to increase our collective chance at survival....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 2:30pm PDT
Alternatives to Profit Maximization and The Fragility of Power We must look for the "signs of the times" that point to the coming of the Kingdom of God or, as John Holloway puts it, the signs "of the presence of the material power of the cry." The world of struggle against the instrumental power that oppresses and exploits people often seems invisible...New struggles are constantly breaking out....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 1:43pm PDT
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