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“We Need to Change the Way We Live”: An ICU Nurse Speaks Out

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Today we caught up with Sam, a nurse working in a cardiac ICU unit at a medium-sized private hospital in Newark NJ. In Samโ€™s workplace, a nurse was recently suspended for organizing a gofundme page to ...

Tiger King: Quarantine Royalty

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Zhana: Netflixโ€™s Tiger King has become essential quarantine viewing. I was first made aware of the docuseries by my students. Like many schools around the nation, we have transitioned to online learning. For our first zoom ...

“An Incredible Catch-22”: An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis

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HC: Tell us what you do for work. I am an emergency department nurse in Oregon.ย  HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...

My Experience

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Out of fear I took the advice of my lawyer and signed a plea of second-degree murder. Websterโ€™s Dictionary describes murder as โ€œthe unlawful and malicious or premeditated killing of a person.โ€ That is not me. ...

What the virus said

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โ€œIโ€™ve come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldnโ€™t find.โ€ [fromย lundimatin, March 27, 2020, https://lundi.am/What-the-virus-said] Youโ€™d do well, dear humans, to stop your ridiculous calls for war. Lower the vengeful looks youโ€™re aiming ...

โ€œYouโ€™re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ€: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union

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HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย  Iโ€™m a fast food worker. I work mostly the grill at a fast food place at the Portland Airport–a company called Burgerville. I also do a shit ton ...

Coronavirus and Conspiracy

Tanzeem Ajmiri

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It was day three of my self-imposed Rona virus (shout out to Black Twitter) quarantine and it was clear that sitting in my underwear scrolling through Facebook was quickly becoming my life. Between the apocalyptic posts ...

Coronavirus and the Crisis Laid Bare

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Jarrod: Two weeks ago I stood on the corner of Stony Island Ave and 71st Street on Chicagoโ€™s South Side, a major intersection and level crossing for the Metra commuter train. A shrill warning siren, blinking ...

โ€œAmazon is Knowingly Putting Their Customers at Riskโ€: A Florida Amazon worker speaks out

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I work for Amazon out here in Miami. Working conditions are less than optimal. We are constantly breathing in a bunch of dust all day, in the back of trailers for hours on end with no ...

โ€œRight Now Everything is a Mess!โ€: Conversations with an MTA Train Conductor

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The MTA in New York City and the surrounding suburbs employs 74,000 workers. It has disclosed that there are 23 people who have tested positive for the Covid-19. Leo is one of 7,000 workers in his ...
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