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All God’s Chillun Got Shoes
“If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.” ...
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An Analysis of the System is Protective: An Interview with Scott Nappalos
Scott Nappalos is a health care worker in California. We asked him for an interview because we thought that he would be able to provide some insights into the realities and challenges of health and health ...
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Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is leading the nation in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, an estimated total of 1,393. Trousdale is a private prison for men in Hartsville, Tennessee, about an hour drive from Nashville. ...
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ON THE TB WARD: A few stories of lungs
When I was being treated for TB in the old St Mary’s Hospital on Harrow Road in London – this was in 1972, a long time ago – the nurses used to give the patients a ...
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“When Your Home Turns into a Prison”: Former Prisoner Reflects on Life Under Coronavirus Lockdown
Ronald Owens, aka “Cornbread,” lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. He spent 13 years in a Massachusetts maximum security prison, where he and Noel Ignatiev met in 1996 as pen pals. They remained close friends ever since. What ...
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An NYC Doctor’s Life During COVID-19
“I’m not heroic. I was never planning to be.” A 30-something year old New York City doctor gives an account of how COVID-19 has affected her life at work and home. The edited interview took place ...
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Angola Prisoners Say: “This is a war – and we’re in it”
CJ LeBlanc is a journalist who writes primarily about issues related to criminal justice in the Deep South and seeks opportunities to amplify marginalized voices. In this short piece, CJ LeBlanc shares with us the communiques ...
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“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 Sam’s 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. HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...
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caring: a labor of stolen time
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Pages from a CNA’s Notebook [1] JOMO wrote this about her job and her organizing at a nursing home in Washington State in 2010. Given the COVID19 crisis, we are reposting the piece with an intro ...
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