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'Poison Pill' in Stimulus Package Could Cost Millions of Airline Jobs, Labor Leaders Say

Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, told Common Dreams Wednesday that the airline industry is being watched as it tries to manage keeping employees out of the unemployment rolls.

'Seize It': Progressives Urge Philadelphia City Govt. to Take Hahnemann Hospital After Owner Demands $1 Million a Month in Rent

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Hahnemann Hospital sits abandoned while Philadelphia's medical community struggles to find the beds needed as the coronavirus outbreak spreads in the city.

"The city should reopen Hahnemann hospital immediately," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Cell Phone Tracking Analysis Shows Where Florida Springbreakers and New Yorkers Fleeing Coronavirus Went to Next

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Data from location accuracy company X-Mode tracking cell phones from spring breakers shows how the coronavirus could have spread from just one beach.

"First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second...

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Top CDC Official: Staggering Spike in New York 'Just a Preview' of What's Coming Elsewhere

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

During the COVID-19 coronavirus emergency, tourists on the quay of the port of Naples in Italy are checked with a thermo scanner by Civil Protection personnel, dressed in overalls and masks to protect themselves

"I think what we're seeing in New York City and New York state right now is a...

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Minister for Health Simon Harris at a news conference at Government Buildings in Dublin on March 24 where he announced Ireland will nationalize its healthcare system for the duration of the coronvirus outbreak.

'For Common Benefit of All,' Ireland Nationalizes Hospitals for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis, Sparking Demand for US to Follow Suit

The number of unemployed Americans could be in the tens of millions by April, economists warn.

'Tip of the Iceberg': Economists Warn Record 3.28 Million Jobless Claims Could Signal Coming Depression

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y) speaks in Durham, New Hampshire on February 10.

'Completely Dangerous and Unacceptable,' Ocasio-Cortez Says of Impending Senate Recess in Midst of Coronavirus Crisis

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr, and White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx at the White House on March 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

House Democrats Back Doctors and Nurses' Nationwide #StayHome Demand as Trump Continues Push for Lifted Restrictions

An image of Holocaust victim Anne Frank was projected onto the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston Sunday night.

Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants

An intensive care nurse treats a patient at an intensive care unit at the Klinikum Bad Hersfeld hospital on March 20, 2020 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

'A Patriotic and Moral Requirement': Healthcare Workers, on Frontlines of Coronavirus Pandemic, Demand Protective Equipment

U.S. Customs officers stand beside a sign saying that the U.S. border is closed at the U.S./Canada border in Lansdowne, Ontario, on March 22, 2020.

Because of the Threat of Coronavirus Turning ICE Detention Into 'Death Camps,' Groups Rallying to Free Families Held Around Country

Nancy Pelosi speaking at the Ireland Funds 28th National Gala dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. on March 11, 2020.

Refusal by Pelosi to Consider Universal Cash Payments in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic 'Maddening,' Say Progressives

Canadian climate activists participated in Powershift: Young and Rising—a massive youth climate convergence in Ottawa in February 2019.

Global Green New Deal Supporters Urge World Leaders to Learn From Coronavirus to Tackle Climate Crisis

Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Ramaioli with templates they used to 3-D print life-saving valves for ventilators to help those stricken with severe coronavirus complications.

Italians Found Way to 3-D Print Key Ventilator Piece for $1 to Help Battle Coronavirus—So the Company With the Patent Is Threatening to Sue

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks about his plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on March 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Screengrab/BernieSanders.com)

Sanders Coronavirus Response Plan Includes $2,000 Direct Monthly Payments to Every American

Earth Day Image

Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Global Digital Mobilization to Mark 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

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A Very Good Job (At Mass Negligent Homicide)

Nigh on speechless: After months of criminal denial, delay, ineptitude, Trump has said the country could see up to 240,000 COVID-19 deaths, an obscenely preventable number that dwarfs the 3,500 deaths in China, with over four times our population. Critics are now speaking the ugly truth of "a fiasco of incredible proportions... We are witnessing one of the greatest failures of governance and basic leadership in modern times." A furious new hashtag: #TrumpGenocide.

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UltraViolet

Women’s Group Says Senate Stimulus Package is Insufficient for Women Who Are Bearing the Brunt of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Greenlining Institute

Senate Bill Puts Corporations Ahead of People, Greenlining Institute Says

Public Citizen

How Medicare for All Would Have Improved U.S. Response to Pandemic

Free Press Action

Free Press Action Plan 'Keeping Connected Amid Crisis' Proposes Policies to Meet COVID-19 Pandemic Communications Needs...

Stand Up America

Sens. Klobuchar, Wyden, and Coons Join Advocates In Urging Congress to Expand Vote-By-Mail

National Nurses United

National Nurses United Urges Administration, Congress to Protect Health Care Workers and Fully Fund Coronavirus Response

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