Voting Rights Cannot Be Separated From Economic Justice, Says William Barber
Image Credit: Steve Pavey/Kairos Center/Poor People’s Campaign Senate Democratic leadership insists they will debate two critical voting rights bills even though Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have publicly denounced their party’s plan to make changes to Senate filibuster rules that would give Democrats the votes needed to pass the landmark legislation. On Monday, […]
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Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites Are Scamming Vulnerable Communities Across the US
This story was first published at Prism. Paul Middendorf, a Houston resident, was congested when he woke up this month. He decided to have COVID-19 tested. He was pleased to discover that a COVID-testing pop-up siteThe test was conducted in Houston’s East Montrose neighbourhood. A worker went down the line sharing a QR code for […]
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Nursing Unions Say For-Profit Health Care Is Driving Omicron Staffing Crisis
As the Omicron wave crests in the northeast, burned-out nurses across the country are again turning to collective action, including rotating walkouts and demonstrations, at dozens of hospitals across more than 11 states and the nation’s capital. As some hospitals teeter dangerously close buckling under the strain of a record high number of COVID-19 patients, […]
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Hospitals Struggle With Sheer Volume of COVID Cases Amid Staff Shortages
The Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida, on Jan. 11 was treating 80 COVID-19 patients — a tenfold increase since late December. Nearly half of those admitted were for other medical reasons. The extremely infectious omicron variant drove the hospital to increase its capacity from 206 beds to 250 patients. The hospital was experiencing severe staff […]
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MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign Isn’t Over. We’re Planning a Mass Protest for June.
On January 15, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was leaving a planning meeting for the Poor People’s Campaign when he was called back into the room. It was his birthday — his last, it would turn out. The staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would normally give King a new suit. But this year, […]
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Progressives Rail Against Sinema For Choosing Filibuster Over Voting Rights
On what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday, voting rights advocates and progressive lawmakers rallied in Arizona on Saturday to target the first-term Democratic senator blocking legislation aimed at strengthening ballot access amid growingGOP-led suppression measures In attendance at Saturday’s demonstrations in Phoenix were members of the King family, which is planning […]
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Youngkin’s Cabinet Has More Fossil Fuel Ties Beyond Trump’s EPA Chief
Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s nomination last week of Andrew WheelerTo be his secretary for natural resources drew backlash from Democratic state lawmakers and climate activists, who expressed concern about the onetime lobbyist’s ties to the coal industry and his environmental record under former President Donald Trump. As secretary of natural resources, Wheeler would occupy the […]
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Washington Examiner’s Restoring America Counters the Left’s Assault, Offers Hope for Future
Only 30% of Americans believe that their country is heading the right way. President Joe Biden was elected with the promise of being a uniter and offering better solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he has resorted instead to divisive rhetoric as well as a socialist agenda. It’s no wonder many Americans are pessimistic about […]
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Corporate Media Largely Ignore Labor Issues. Let’s Make Them Visible.
A year ago VICE’s Motherboard published an account of the underhanded tactics used by IRI Consultants, the “union avoidance” firm Google hired to prevent its employees from unionizing. The report used leaked files to show how IRI gathered private information on the personalities, work ethics, and motivations of its clients’ employees and then used that […]
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The Time Is Now for the “Radical Revolution of Values” That MLK Called For
Arundhati Ray, novelist-activist, excelled in the early days of the pandemic. laid out the stakes of one of the coronavirus’s reverberating impacts. According to Roy, COVID-19 profoundly disrupted everyone’s modes of living under global capitalism. “It has mocked immigration controls, biometrics, digital surveillance and every other kind of data analytics, and struck hardest — thus […]
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