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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 Sam’s workplace, a nurse was recently suspended for organizing a gofundme page to ...

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Tiger King: Quarantine Royalty

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Zhana: Netflix’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.  HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...

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What the virus said

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“I’ve come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldn’t find.” [from lundimatin, March 27, 2020, https://lundi.am/What-the-virus-said] You’d do well, dear humans, to stop your ridiculous calls for war. Lower the vengeful looks you’re aiming ...

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“You’re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Over”: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union

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HC: Tell us what you do for work.  I’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 ...

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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 Chicago’s South Side, a major intersection and level crossing for the Metra commuter train. A shrill warning siren, blinking ...

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“Right Now Everything is a Mess!”: 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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Remembering Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan

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In the next few weeks we will share with our readers some reflections on Noel’s political legacy that have been originally published posthumously by close friends, political collaborators, former students and also by different media outlets. ...

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We want to thank our readers for being so patient with us while we grieve the passing of our dear friend and editor-in-chief Noel Ignatiev. After taking many things into consideration, we have collectively decided to ...

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Rest in Power Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019)

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Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our editor-in-chief, friend, and comrade Noel Ignatiev. Noel died on Saturday, November 9th at the age of 78. His passing is a tremendous loss to those fighting for ...