At least 20 workers at meat processing plants have died from COVID-19, and around 5,000 have tested positive, but President Trump invoked an executive order to bar local governments from closing meat plants. We hear from meat plant workers and organizers about conditions during the pandemic and speak with Sindy Benavides, CEO of the League of United Latin … Continued
0:08 – May Day: Workers with Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Target are joining in one big strike and asking shoppers to boycott to protest unsafe working conditions and unethical corporate business practices. Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) is a staff writer at Vice, based in Brooklyn. She covers workers and the labor movement for VICE’s … Continued
Today on the Show: Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers talks about the multiple struggles the farmworkers face as the covid19 death tolls breaks 62 thousand with over a million testing positive for the killer virus. Also, immigrants and their allies caravan to Sacramento CA to pressure lawmakers for COVID 19 safety nets. … Continued
0:08 – Trump issues executive order shielding meat plants from COVID protocols, amid chaos in the meat industry with workers and unions terrified of an outbreak. Tom Philpott (@tomphilpott) is a food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones Magazine. His latest piece is titled This May Be the Real Reason Trump Is Throwing a Bone … Continued
President Trump has lashed out at the U.S. Postal Service as the pandemic brings it to the brink of collapse and more people than ever are relying on the mail. Trump claims the agency is only losing money because it is undercharging Amazon and other companies for shipping. “It just isn’t true,” says American Postal … Continued
Today on the Show: Billionaire Bonanza 2020! Wealth windfalls, tumbling taxes, and the pandemic profiteers. Also w’ell get a medical update on the battle against covid19. Where we are now, and what we didn’t know 3 months ago about the Novel Cororna virus. And, are police discriminating against people of color during the pandemic
0:08 – Anti-black racism in China is forcing people from their homes, jobs, and sense of home Roberto Castillo (@castillorocas) is Assistant Professor with the Cultural Studies Department at the Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and contributor to Quartz. 0:34 – Serology testing and community spread: what’s the latest Julia Schaletzky, PhD is Executive Director … Continued
Today on the Show: A former San Francisco Superior-Court Judge speaks out about the upsurge in China bashing in response to covid19. Also, more n the struggle for the rights of the day laboroers in the age of the pandemic. And more outrageous racism from the Secretary of Education.
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We speak with activist Yolian Ogbu from University of North Texas about the plans she and other organizers have for a May Day Corona Strike. We speak with journalist Rasheed Shabazz about the impact Corona Virus is having on East Oakland.
Today on the Show: Did this virus come from a lab? Maybe not, says investigative reporter, Sam Husseini, in a new article in Salon.com, but it exposes the threat of a bio-warfare arms race. Also, dying to vote. We’ll have a special report from Wisconsin, on the growing number of voters who claim they are … Continued
