All Views Articles for 2020-03-26

Thursday, March 26, 2020
What we need now more than ever is social movements to advocate for solutions that will protect all of us, not just the business sector. (Photo: La Via Campesina) Tarah Walsh
Organizing in the Time of Social Distancing
Now more than ever, we need to make our digital campaigns meaningful.
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People wearing face masks sit on seats with signs telling travellers where they may sit, in order to observe social distancing rules amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on March 25, 2020. (Photo: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty Images) Chema Vera
Never in Our Lifetimes Has There Been a Call for Compassion Like This
The time is now for the G20 to help save millions of lives and kick-start the future that humanity needs to hope again. Only a compassionate and collective global response will do.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks to supporters at an Immigration Town Hall in San Ysidro, California on December 20, 2019. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images) Tom Gallagher
Bernie Sanders in the Age of Coronavirus: We Need Him Now More Than Ever
Does anyone here seriously believe we’d be hearing a loud call for party unity if it were Bernie Sanders leading in the delegate count?
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters during her weekly press conference at the US Capitol March 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. - The US Senate unanimously passed the nation's largest-ever rescue package late March 25, 2020, a $2 trillion lifeline to suffering Americans, critically depleted hospitals and an economy ravaged by a rapidly spreading coronavirus crisis. The measure now heads to the House of Representatives, where a Democratic leader said he expected it to pass by voice vote March 27 Debra Gore-Mann, Adam Briones
Senate COVID-19 Relief Bill Put Corporations First – Now, Let’s Take Care of People
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated glaring structural and racial inequities in American society. What the Senate has put forth is not nearly good enough.
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A passenger wears a face mask on an almost empty Swiss Air flight from Hamburg, Germany to Zurich, Switzerland, on March 22, 2020, in Hamburg, Germany. Airlines worldwide have had to cut back flights as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Sven Creutzmann/Mambo photo/Getty Images) Mike Lofgren
Are Mass Plane Travel and Mass Tourism Unsustainable?
The coronavirus pandemic is just a symptom of systemic problems the industries cannot resolve.
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We should act now to ensure that incarceration does not turn into a death sentence for them. (Photo: Shutterstock) Jesse Jackson
Release Prisoners Now to Slow Coronavirus' Spread
This peril is immediate and pressing. There are 2.2 million Americans locked up at any one time, but over 11 million go through prison or jail gates in any one year.
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The market has been organized to serve the wealthy. (Photo: peoplesworld/flickr/cc) Robert Reich
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
The real divide is between democracy and oligarchy.
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Unsurprisingly, a government simulation exercise just last year found we were not prepared for a pandemic. (Photo: Shutterstock) Jill Richardson
Stay in Your Home—And Stay Angry
The economy's turned upside down, people are dying, and we're all cooped up because the people who are supposed to keep us safe didn’t.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers in New York City are among those who have been on the frontlines nationwide. While the nation's ruling elite continue to treat workers and the most vulnerable as expendable and disposable, writes Stancil, "the wounds that the investor class have inflected on the U.S. are making it even more difficult to contend with the coronavirus crisis." (Photo: Andrew Cashin / MTA New York City Transit / flickr / cc) Kenny Stancil
The Coronavirus Effect: Pandemic Exposes Structural Violence of US Ruling Class
The inadequate preparation for and callous response to the unfolding health and economic crises puts brutal inequalities and distorted priorities on full display.
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Even now, palms can grasp palms, at least in spirit, across the borders that we can see, at last, are not real. (Photo: jotily/Getty Images) Robert C. Koehler
The Virus Is Our Teacher
Self-protection means doing what we can to protect—and understand—everyone.
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Presidents now routinely request and Congress routinely appropriates more than a trillion dollars annually to satisfy the national security state’s supposed needs. (Photo: sleuthjournal) Andrew Bacevich
Judgment Day for the National Security State
The coronavirus and the real threats to American safety and freedom.
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A worker at Mother Hubbards Cupboard, a food pantry in partnership with the Hoosier Hills Foodbank, distributes food to people experiencing food insecurity, during the Covid-19-Coronavirus national emergency in Bloomington. .Amanda Nickey, President and CEO at Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, said she'd already seen more people arriving for emergency food after the mass layoffs of local workers during the COVID-19/Coronavirus emergency in Indiana. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Heidi Shierholz
Never Seen Anything Like This: Unemployment Claims Jumped Nearly 1500% in Two Weeks
I have been a labor economist for a very long time and this is simply unprecedented.
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