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On Organizing the Grunts: COVID-19, the Sailors and Some Other World History
I donโt mean to sound old school here.ย When General Giap, a commander of the Vietnam Peoplesโ Army, wrote in his memoir about the conditions that allowed a victory over the almighty US armed forces in ...
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Teaching in the Time of COVID
Like thousands of professors around the country and the globe, I suddenly find myself conducting all my personal and professional affairs through my computer screen. Stationed on my couch as my classroom, office, and Kanopy โn ...
“We Need to Change the Way We Live”: An ICU Nurse Speaks Out
Today we caught up with Sam, a nurse working in a cardiac ICU unit at a medium-sized private hospital in Newark NJ. In Samโs workplace, a nurse was recently suspended for organizing a gofundme page to ...
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“An Incredible Catch-22”: An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis
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 ...
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What the virus said
โIโve come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldnโt find.โ [fromย lundimatin, March 27, 2020, https://lundi.am/What-the-virus-said] Youโd do well, dear humans, to stop your ridiculous calls for war. Lower the vengeful looks youโre aiming ...
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โYouโre Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union
HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย Iโm 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 Conspiracy
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 ...
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Coronavirus and the Crisis Laid Bare
Jarrod: Two weeks ago I stood on the corner of Stony Island Ave and 71st Street on Chicagoโs South Side, a major intersection and level crossing for the Metra commuter train. A shrill warning siren, blinking ...
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โAmazon 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 ...
โRight Now Everything is a Mess!โ: Conversations with an MTA Train Conductor
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 ...