Month: April 2020

Voces de la Frontera Join the virtual celebration of May 1 of Voices of the Frontera! * This Friday, 6-7:30 pm CDT * On Facebook live on the page of the Voices of the Frontera RSVP aquí:https://bit.ly/santuario2020 — Join the Voices of the Virtual Border May Day celebration! *This Friday from 6-7:30 pm CDT *On […]

https://tinyurl.com/ycezodtz by Eoin Higgins, staff writer President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action as soon as Tuesday to declare meat packing plants in the U.S. essential businesses, keeping the processing facilities open despite concerns over worker and food safety in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. The movegenerated criticism from labor unions, animal […]

https://tinyurl.com/ydbb2c87 Each point contains a link to each of the more with more information on the strike. So far, we’ve identified over 140 wildcat strikes that happened since the beginning of March. (Several larger strikes like at Instacart and Whole Foods happened in multiple cities). We suspect many strikes aren’t reporting at all for a […]

https://www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/ Efforts are needed on all fronts if we are to overcome these times of crisis. Since the beginning of March, PPT has joined a number of national alliances to call on our federal legislators to expand resources for public transit, worker protections, affordable housing, healthcare and more. Read some of these letters below and […]

https://tinyurl.com/y9w48cxv Doctors and nurses of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade take part in a farewell ceremony before traveling to Andorra to help in the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 28, 2020. © AFP / YAMIL LAGE By Pablo Vivanco, a journalist and analyst […]

https://tinyurl.com/y7g46fsk Dear friends – We ask you to endorse this statement by the newly formed AEMAC (Allow Emergency Medical Aid from Cuba) to bring Cuban doctors and medicine to Detroit in order to Fight COVID-19: We are all stunned by the enormous death and destruction in Detroit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This plague is […]