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Negin Owliaei

Negin Owliaei

Negin Owliaei is a co-editor and researcher at IPS's Inequality.org. Before joining IPS, she worked as a journalist and digital producer at Al Jazeera Media Network, where she covered social movements and the internet for the award-winning program The Stream.

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Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 at three times the rate of white Americans and face higher rates of unemployment. (Photo: Screenshot)

Black Immigrant Domestic Workers Share Notes on the Storm

Between Covid-19, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism, Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging crises.

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Every level of the U.S. government has shown, time and again, that the default setting is to leave the vulnerable behind. But Americans themselves are challenging that approach. (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Reopening the Economy Is a Death Sentence for Workers

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

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As other countries have shown with far more grace, the alternative isn’t shutting down forever — it’s investing in testing and social safety nets. (Photo: Shutterstock)

'Reopening' Means Workers Will Die

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

Negin Owliaei ·

Ensuring access to water as a human right is crucial, especially given the number of localities across the United States grappling with privatized water during a public health emergency. (Photo: uusc4all/flickr/cc)

The Detroit Organizers Long Demanding Water Justice

As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity.

Negin Owliaei ·

Sanctions starve our people of food, medicine, and safety while public figures threaten us with more violence.(Photo: Shutterstock)

Americans Need to Hear More from Iranians. Here’s Where to Start.

Here are a few illuminating and emotionally resonant pieces by real Iranians on life under sanctions, the brutality of war, and the recent crisis.

Negin Owliaei ·

Their enormous wealth offers them an outlandishly oversized role in our democracy. It’s poisoning both our politics and our media. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Time for a Billionaire Ban

The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change.

Negin Owliaei ·

Supporters rally for universal health care in Chicago. (Photo: Shutterstock)

No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care

As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.

Negin Owliaei ·

The worst tragedy is that companies get to make millions attacking indigenous people and burning down vital ecosystems. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Who’s Burning the Amazon?

The fires are no accident. They’re set by people turning a profit in a grocery store near you.

Negin Owliaei ·

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