News from LDH: April 2022

Sunday, April 10, 2022

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Well, it has been almost exactly a month since my last blog update. Here is another update of this blog.

This time it is 89 pages of links to the news covering the last month. They appear in the categories listed below, including Veterans, Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination, Economics and Coronavirus, Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education, Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change, Politics and Coronavirus, Politics, Terrorism, Military, and General and Miscellaneous. Don’t forget to click on the items in the column on the right to open the pages for those categories.

Regarding the coronavirus pandemic, in the past month there have been 44.7 million new cases in the world, 149 thousand new deaths in the world, 947 thousand new cases in the U.S.A., 20.6 thousand new deaths in the U.S.A., 21.3 thousand new cases in Pennsylvania, 634 new deaths in Pennsylvania, 3.6 thousand new cases in Philadelphia, and 65 new deaths in Philadelphia. During this past month, almost all the deaths were among the unvaccinated; there were almost no deaths among people who were vaccinated. The cumulative totals for each of these categories since the beginning of the pandemic are now as follows: 499,188,710; 6,203,372; 82,062,989; 1,012,151; 2,789,262; 44,424; 309,301; and 5,081.

During the next few months, we will be contending with the new BA.2 Omicron sub-variant of the coronavirus. This variant appears to be more contagious, but less lethal. However, until the deaths are down to, and remain at, zero for several days, we should not become too relaxed about wearing face masks and being fully vaccinated and boosted. By the way, the second booster shot is now available to all those who received the first booster more than four months ago and are over age 50 or are immunocompromised or have underlying conditions that make them more vulnerable. I strongly recommend that all eligible people be fully vaccinated and fully boosted.

The war in Ukraine has continued to rage on during the past month. Ukraine military have been providing severe resistance and inflicting heavy casualties on the Russian military. The Russians have been forced to retreat from the western part of Ukraine. The Russian military is being accused of having committed war crimes and killing many Ukrainian civilians. Putin has threatened to retaliate with nuclear weapons if any NATO forces attempt to intervene in defense of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the U.S.A. and other NATO nations have continued to provide weapons and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine. More than 4.5 million refugees, about half of whom are children, have evacuated from Ukraine to neighboring nations such as Poland and Hungary.

The world is in a great struggle to determine if the dominant form of government will be authoritarianism or democracy. Even here in the United States, long known as the world’s beacon of democracy, there is a question about whether democracy can survive without another civil war.

We must continue to resist tyranny, fascism, authoritarianism, racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc. The three impurities of life are avarice, anger, and ignorance. What others need from us is respect, kindness, and love. The more respect, kindness, and love that we give to others, the more respect, kindness, and love we get in our lives and the better we feel about ourselves.

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Veterans related links 041122

VA would close 3 medical centers, restructure 100s of outpatient clinics in new plan

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2022/03/09/va-would-close-3-medical-centers-restructure-100s-of-outpatient-clinics-in-new-plan/

VA Plan Would Close 3 Major Medical Centers, Restructure Outpatient Clinics

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/va-plan-would-close-3-major-medical-centers,-restructure-outpatient-clinics/

The House today passed H.R. 2471, an omnibus spending bill consisting of all 12 fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills and supplemental funding to support Ukraine.

https://appropriations.house.gov/news

H.J.Res.75 - Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2022

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-joint-resolution/75

Steps for Completing the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/exposures/Registry-Steps.pdf

VISN 4 Announces New Medical Center Director: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sharon Coyle as the new executive director of the Butler VA Health Care System in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Note: VISN 4 Announced on March 11th, New Deputy Medical Center Director, Ms. Prachi V. Asher, for VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.)

https://www.va.gov/butler-health-care/news-releases/visn-4-announces-new-medical-center-director/

H.R. 6543, the Restore Veterans’ Compensation Act, would eliminate the recoupment of separation pay, special separation benefits, and voluntary separation incentive payments from members of the Armed Forces who subsequently receive VA disability compensation.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6543

S.3017 - Veterans Dental Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3017?s=1&r=2

S.2189 - HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) Access Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2189/all-info

S.1313 - Honoring All Veterans Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1313

S.3548 - Veterans Hearing Benefits Act of 2022

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3548

S.3397 - VA Zero Suicide Demonstration Project Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3397

S.3304 - Patient Advocate Tracker Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3304

Major Steven Schofield, United States Army, Retired - Feb 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ZijIeeNvM

Lawmakers Balk at VA Plans to Roll Out Electronic Medical Records System

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/07/lawmakers-balk-va-plans-roll-out-electronic-medical-records-system.html

VA Wants to Shutter More than 100 Medical Facilities But Build Hundreds More

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/10/va-wants-shutter-more-100-medical-facilities-build-hundreds-more.html

VA's big restructuring plans to close Philly and Coatesville centers

https://www.inquirer.com/business/health/va-hospital-philadelphia-coatesville-close-20220316.html

Veterans Affairs recommends closing Philadelphia and Coatesville hospitals

https://whyy.org/articles/veteran-affairs-philly-coatesville-hospitals-closing/

DEBES, WALTER K., Died October 3, 2021, age 89, of Rhawnhurst, PA. Beloved husband of 50 years to the late Adele F. Debes (Holmes). Devoted father of Walter J. (Patricia) and John A. (Lucy). Walt was a Navy veteran of the Korean War and a retired letter carrier for the United States Postal Service. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 20. He was also a devoted volunteer at the VA Hospital.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/walter-debes-obituary?id=24723162

USS PUEBLO (AGER-2)

http://www.usspueblo.org/

These 17 Medical Centers Would Close and More Than 30 Built or Replaced Under VA Plan

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/14/these-17-medical-centers-would-close-and-more-30-built-or-replaced-under-va-plan.html

VA Recommendations to the AIR Commission

https://www.va.gov/aircommissionreport/

VA releases Asset and Infrastructure Review report

https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5774

VA Recommendations to the ASSET AND INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW COMMISSION. Volume I: Introduction, Approach and Methodology, and Outcomes

https://www.va.gov/AIRCOMMISSIONREPORT/docs/VA-Report-to-AIR-Commission-Volume-I.pdf

VA Recommendations to the ASSET AND INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW COMMISSION. Volume II: Market Recommendations

https://www.va.gov/AIRCOMMISSIONREPORT/Volume_II.asp

VA Recommendations to the AIR Commission. Appendices

https://www.va.gov/AIRCOMMISSIONREPORT/Appendices.asp

H.R.1972 - Fair Care for Vietnam Veterans Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1972/all-info

H.R.3967 - Honoring our PACT Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967

Senate starts negotiations on measure to provide health care, benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-03-29/burn-pits-toxic-exposure-veterans-affairs-legislation-5519881.html

H.R.5666 - Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5666

H.R.2281 - Dust Off Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2281

H.R.4732 - Protecting Benefits for Disabled Veterans Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4732/

S.2533 - Making Advances in Mammography and Medical Options for Veterans Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2533

H.R.4794 - Making Advances in Mammography and Medical Options for Veterans Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4794

H.R.3492 - Gold Star Families Benefits Protection Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3492

H.R.1948 - VA Employee Fairness Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1948

S.1965 - Planning for Aging Veterans Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1965

H.R.3367 - Gold Star Children Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3367

S.1944 - Vet Center Improvement Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1944

S.1488 - Military Hunger Prevention Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1488

S.1863 - Guaranteeing Healthcare Access to Personnel Who Served Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1863

H.R.4624 - Guaranteeing Healthcare Access to Personnel Who Served Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4624

S.1520 - Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1520

H.R.3 - Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3

Honor Flight Network Philadelphia

http://honorflightphiladelphia.org/

Honor Flight Application Forms

http://honorflightphiladelphia.org/application-forms/

Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021

https://www.veterans.senate.gov/hearings/honoring-our-promise-to-address-comprehensive-toxics-act-of-2021-3-29-22

National Vietnam War Veterans Day is on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. This is a day to recognize and remember the more than 8.7 million men and women who served during the Vietnam era, the 3.4 million who served in theater, the 58,000 who paid the ultimate price, and the 1,584 who remain missing and unaccounted-for. In our nation where less than one percent of the population currently wears the uniform and less than seven percent has ever worn the uniform, this day is a great opportunity to say, “Thank you for your service.”

https://www.vfw.org/actioncorpsweekly

The Center for Women Veterans’ (CWV) mission is to monitor and coordinate VA’s administration of health care, benefits, services, and programs for women Veterans. We serve as an advocate for cultural transformation and to raise awareness of the responsibility to treat women Veterans with dignity and respect to #BringWomenVeteransHome2VA.

https://www.va.gov/womenvet/

S.2102 - Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas Supporting Expanded Review for Veterans In Combat Environments (SERVICE) Act of 2021. This bill would require VA to provide mammography screenings to veterans who served in known toxic exposure locations. 06/17/2021 – Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 03/24/2022 – Passed in Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. 03/28/2022 - Received in the House. This is a VFW-supported bill.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2102

S. 2533 - Making Advances in Mammography and Medical Options (MAMMO) for Veterans Act. The MAMMO Act would require VA to carry out a mammography telescreening pilot program, upgrade VA mammography suites to 3-D digital screening, and develop a breast imaging strategic plan for veterans. 07/29/2021 – Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 03/23/2022 – Passed in Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. 3/24/2022 - Received in the House. This is a VFW-supported bill.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2533

H.R. 7144 - Military Housing Transparency and Accountability Act. This legislation will direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a centralized Military Housing Feedback Tool for members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families to identify, rate, and compare housing. 03/17/2022 - Introduced in House and Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7144

VA, VFW open ATLAS telehealth access in rural Pennsylvania. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Erie VA Medical Center Director John Gennaro visited the ATLAS site at VFW Post 7842 in Linesville, Pennsylvania . This location offers the convenience of telehealth appointments and eliminates the need to drive to the Erie VA Medical Center for appointments, providing relief from travel in treacherous winter weather conditions. VFW Post 2487 in Los Banos, California, is featured in a VA video to demonstrate the functionality of the ALTAS site, and includes many of the local veterans who use it.

https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/85109/va-vfw-open-atlas-telehealth-access-rural-pennsylvania/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Navy Fireman 2nd Class Hal J. Allison, 21, of Paducah, Kentucky, who was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Allison. He will be buried in his hometown on April 8, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2815305/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-allison-h/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Navy Coxswain Paul L. Boemer, 21, of St. Louis, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Boemer. He will be buried in his hometown on May 3, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2396791/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-boemer-p/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Cpl. Donald L. Menken, 21, of Whitesburg, Kentucky, was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion,15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action after being wounded on June 10, 1953, while his unit was guarding Outpost Harry on the main road to Seoul. Following the battle, Menken could not be located and no remains were recovered. He will be buried in Ermine, Kentucky, on May 14, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2923468/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-menken-d/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Eugene P. Shauvin, 25, of Spokane, Washington, was assigned to the 95th Troop Carrier Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier Group. On Sep. 17, 1944, the C-47 Skytrain aircraft he was piloting was shot down over Belgium. The four-person crew, including Shauvin, and five paratroopers died in the crash. Following the war, his remains could not be identified. He will be buried in his hometown in July 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2953304/pilot-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-shauvin-e/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Navy Water Tender 1st Class Milo E. Phillips, 26, of Pierce, Colorado, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Phillips. He will be buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl) in Honolulu, on Aug. 4, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2554715/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-phillips-m/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pvt. Pearl F. Barrow, 36, of Wichita, Kansas, was assigned to Company F, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action on Nov. 20, 1944, when his unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered. Barrow will be buried in his hometown on a date yet to be determined.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2058577/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-barrow-p/

H.R.5819 - Autonomy for Disabled Veterans Act. This bill increases the maximum amount authorized under the Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) grant program to $10,000 for veterans with a service-connected disability and $5,000 for those with disabilities that are not service-connected. The HISA grant program provides medically necessary improvements and structural alterations to veterans' (or service members') primary residence for specified purposes (e.g., allowing for entrance to their home). The bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to increase the dollar amount of the grant in accordance with inflation as determined by the Consumer Price Index.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5819

7th FRC, Charles Davis, Jr., Delivered

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2013/08/20/7th-frc-charles-davis-jr-delivered/

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Legislative Hearing - Started streaming Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjTx-4oPloI

Philadelphia Psychiatrist to Pay $3 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Workers’ Compensation Claims

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/philadelphia-psychiatrist-pay-3-million-resolve-allegations-false-workers-compensation

Ten Texas Doctors and a Healthcare Executive Agree to Pay over $1.68 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/ten-texas-doctors-and-healthcare-executive-agree-pay-over-168-million-settle-kickback

Newaygo Woman Sentenced For Defrauding Social Security And Veterans Programs Of Over $650,000

https://www.justice.gov/Usao-wdmi/pr/2022_0322_Christian

Defendant Who Stole Money from Veterans and Social Security Beneficiaries Headed to Federal Prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/defendant-who-stole-money-veterans-and-social-security-beneficiaries-headed-federal

Rhode Island Woman Charged with Falsifying Military Service; Fraudulently Collecting Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Charitable Contributions Earmarked for Wounded and Other Veterans

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ri/pr/rhode-island-woman-charged-falsifying-military-service-fraudulently-collecting-hundreds

Flying Through Life: From Fighter Pilot to Peace Activist

https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/flying-through-life-from-fighter-pilot-to-peace-activist/

Vietnam War mass grave found thanks to US veteran tip-off

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-war-mass-grave-found-thanks-to-us-veteran-tip-off-4443326.html

VA Asks for 22% Increase in Spending on Medical Care as Part of Record $301 Billion Budget

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/28/va-asks-22-increase-spending-medical-care-part-of-record-301-billion-budget.html

Veterans unemployment drops to lowest level in three years

https://www.militarytimes.com/education-transition/2022/04/01/veterans-unemployment-drops-to-lowest-level-in-three-years/

Veterans groups, community leaders need to play a key role in countering extremism, experts warn

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2022/03/31/veterans-groups-community-leaders-need-to-play-a-key-role-in-countering-extremism-experts-warn/

Defense's Dark Waters Town Hall with Mark Ruffalo, Rob Bilott & Vietnam Veterans of America - May 19, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRgnoORskc

Is Your Medical Facility Closing? DoD Restarts ‘Modified’ Realignment Plans

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/advocacy/is-your-medical-facility-closing-dod-restarts-modified-realignment-plans/

Tipping Point for Bill Helping Combat-Injured Veterans: Make Your Voice Heard

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/advocacy/tipping-point-for-bill-helping-combat-injured-veterans-make-your-voice-heard/

H.R.1282 - Major Richard Star Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1282

S.344 - Major Richard Star Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/344

How VA’s Budget Matches Up With MOAA’s Priority List

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/advocacy/how-vas-budget-matches-up-with-moaas-priority-list/

Obituary for Samuel C Cottrell, member of Seabee Team 0511 in Vietnam in 1967-1968

https://www.maharandsonfuneralhome.net/memorials/samuel-cottrell/4895123/index.php

Watch Live: 2022 Blessing of the Fleet

https://navymemorial.swoogo.com/2022-botf

2021 Blessing of the Fleet - Apr 13, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaz9i9_4ANE

Mental Health Visits Up, Suicidal Behavior Down for Vets Given iPads During Pandemic, Study Finds

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/06/mental-health-visits-suicidal-behavior-down-vets-given-ipads-during-pandemic-study-finds.html

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 041122

JCPA convened over 500 Jewish professionals and civic lay leaders virtually April 25th and 26th for the JCPA2021 National Conference

https://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/jcpa2021-roundup/

A Jewish Call to Action: Ending Mass Incarceration and Criminalization

https://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Jewish-Values-Framework-COMPLETE-2.pdf

The Meaning of a Stolen Diaper: The black market for baby products is part of a larger debate about how New York City handles low-level crime.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-meaning-of-a-stolen-diaper

San Jose Unified adds more police, outraged community demands ‘Care, not Cops’: The board’s decision to use police officers on campus makes the district – the largest in San Jose – an outlier among other Bay Area districts, many of which have opted to decrease the

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/12/9025520/

Probe finds ‘credible evidence’ Marin athletes used racial slurs toward opposing Bay Area teams

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/12/probe-finds-credible-evidence-san-marin-athletes-used-racial-slurs/

Israeli official: Turkey agrees to return ancient Hebrew inscription to Jerusalem

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-turkey-agrees-to-return-ancient-hebrew-inscription-to-jerusalem

The Hypocrisy of Support for Ukraine Must Not Harden Black America's Hearts

https://www.newsweek.com/hypocrisy-support-ukraine-must-not-harden-black-americas-hearts-1687360

Levits was born in Riga, into the family of Latvian Jewish engineer Jonass Levits and his wife, Latvian-Baltic German poet Ingeborga Levite (née Barga, pen name Aija Zemzare).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egils_Levits

In Ukraine: Where Is Black Human Interest?

https://www.laprogressive.com/black-human-interest/

B'NAI B'RITH IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND AROUND THE GLOBE

https://www.bnaibrith.org/bnai-brith-impact-spring-2022.html

Feminism as a Tool for Peace: As nuclear disarmament becomes a growing priority for many countries, a Corporation-supported report considers feminism as a tool for shaping better policymaking

https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/nuclear-threats/feminism-tool-peace/

“Grooming” Is Republicans’ Cruel New Buzzword for Targeting Trans Kids: On the right, “grooming” is being teed up as the next CRT.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165761/republican-governors-grooming-crt-trans-rights

E-Book: Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice & Authentic Community, from Amanda Kemp

https://amandakemp.bandcamp.com/merch/e-book-say-the-wrong-thing-stories-and-strategies-for-racial-justice-authentic-community

How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations About Race | Amanda Kemp | TEDxWilmington - Oct 5, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF--2vGj7Tg&t=72s

What white people can do to move race conversations forward | Caprice Hollins | TEDxSeattle - Dec 18, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iknxhxEn1o

She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared: In a new exhibition, Wally de Lang, a Dutch historian, has tracked what happened to each of the men rounded up in the first Nazi raids on Dutch Jews, whose fates have largely been a mystery for decades. Over the course of two days in February 1941, some 400 Jewish men were rounded up by Nazi police in raids in Amsterdam. Only a few survived the war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/design/nazis-dutch-jews-disappearance.html

Earlier this year, Officer Allen suffered a heart attack that led to a serious brain injury after he was stung by a bee. Doctors say he will not recover.

https://6abc.com/society/officer-incapacitated-by-bee-sting-moved-into-hospice-care/11659739/

‘What Led Him to This Assumption?’: Black Attorneys Compare Being Mistaken for Defendants In Courtroom to the Systemic Biases Their Clients Face

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/03/17/what-led-him-to-this-assumption-black-attorneys-compare-being-mistaken-for-defendants-in-courtroom-to-the-systemic-biases-their-clients-face/

Black teen was top student until she was dragged out of class and strip-searched by police at school

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/17/2086472/-Mom-of-Black-girl-15-strip-searched-while-at-school-says-her-daughter-is-a-changed-person

Federal jury awards $85 million to California family in wrongful death lawsuit after arrest

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/19/us/san-diego-lucky-phounsy-wrongful-death-lawsuit/index.html

We Must Protect Historically Black Colleges and Universities: It’s no wonder HBCUs are under attack given how hostile our society remains to Black success.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hbcu-bomb-threats-education/

Stanley Nelson’s Lifetime of Documenting Black Experience: The filmmaker discusses the film he co-directed about the Attica prison uprising, how he got his start, and what it takes to nurture the careers of younger artists.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/stanley-nelsons-lifetime-of-documenting-black-experience

Yes, Black Voters Feel Let Down by Biden: From police reform to voting rights, Black voters are still waiting for action from the administration they helped put in power.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-voting-police-reform/

My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours: Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/norman-mailer-white-negro/

Truth, Light, and the Origins of the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses: How a cohort of young feminists organized, agitated, and turned to Title IX to stop rape and sexual harassment on colleges 45 years ago.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/college-title-ix-history/

Study and Struggle: The pragmatism of police abolition.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists/

Plastic Surgery Has a Troubled History Inside Prisons. Some Advocates Want It to Make a Comeback.

Should cosmetic procedures be part of how society prepares prisoners to reenter it?

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/02/plastic-surgery-prisons-lookism-appearance-bias/

Why Put Skinny Actors in Fat Suits? In The Thing About Pam, Renee Zellweger wears a fat suit to play Pamela Hupp, who is a plus-sized woman. Why?

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/fat-suits

Racial Cleansing in the United States - Rick Shenkman: The white community would issue an ultimatum to blacks that they would have to leave within a certain amount of time – usually measured in hours – or they would be killed.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racial-cleansing-in-the-united-states

The Conservative and the Murderer: Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165580/scoundrel-book-review-buckley-edgar-smith-conservative-murderer

Letters to the Editor: Judging Slave Owners in the 21st Century; Wisdom Doesn’t Stop with Judeo-Christian Teachings; United World Needed; Sinkhole or Swim.

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Letters.html

I’m a Christian Mom and I Love My Trans Daughter: I’m a lot like you — except my state wants to investigate me as a child abuser simply for supporting my kid.

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Shappley.html

The Meaning Behind Brian Flores’s New Job: Brian Flores has a new gig in the league, but it won’t deter him from pressing forward on his racial discrimination suit.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/brian-flores-steelers/

Meet the High School Students Who Organized Thousands to Walk Out for Amir Locke: Twin Cities teens demand a true ban on deadly “no-knock” warrants, a broken promise from Mayor Frey.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/students-walkout-amir-locke-blm-defund-minneapolis-police-minnesota

St. Louis’s Movement-Backed Mayor Promised to Close an Infamous Jail. What’s the Hold Up?

Mayor Tishaura Jones, who took office in April 2021, promised to empty the jail known as “the Workhouse” within the first 100 days of her tenure.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-lives-matter-st-louis-workhouse-public-safety-bail-campaign

WHISTLEBLOWER: Have Trump-supporting MAGA followers infiltrated the CIA?

https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/03/29/whistleblower-have-trump-supporting-maga-followers-infiltrated-the-cia/

America's Black upper class - Rich, successful and empowered | DW Documentary - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0NsJ6RgJ0

A Mirror on Every Wall—and a Microphone Behind Every Mirror. The work of belonging is never done.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jargon-authenticity-belonging-dei/

The Secret Black History of LSD: Research on psychedelics, then and now, has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion. But that hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through such drugs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lsd-acid-black-history/

In the Balance: American women at work.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/claudia-goldin-career-family/

Abolitionists Win Big-ish in Sleepy College Town

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/abolitionists-win-big/

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act Will Protect All of Us: Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165930/emmett-till-anti-lynching-act-arbery-hate-crimes

Native, Inc.: Fifty years ago, Indigenous Alaskans created their own corporations to manage their land and affairs. Their success holds lessons in the lower 48, where tribal rights are under renewed attack.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/native-inc/

On the Basis of Sex: The amazing success and frustrating challenges of Title IX.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/on-the-basis-of-sex/

Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.

https://janeelliott.com/

Ms. Elliott invites you to make immediate use of the materials below. The task of combating prejudice and racism requires education, introspection, and commitment. We hope you find these materials enlightening and useful.

https://janeelliott.com/learning-materials

Building inclusive organizations: An interview with Raquel Saraswati, AFSC’s senior director of diversity, equity, and inclusion

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/building-inclusive-organizations

1983 arson conviction vacated due to antisemitism at trial

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-arson-c01d02aa8b1475730dba2057c8858c09

Racist flyers circulating in Houston neighborhoods, city leaders respond

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/city-leaders-address-series-of-racist-flyers-circulating-houston-neighborhoods

'Hate and violence:' Noose found at Fremont high school

https://www.ktvu.com/news/hate-and-violence-noose-found-at-fremont-high-school

‘Shocked at the viciousness’: Six assailants beat Jewish man on New York City street. Police investigating assault in Brooklyn as a hate crime, make one arrest; ADL offers $10,000 reward for information; governor ‘outraged,’ as antisemitic attacks surge

https://www.timesofisrael.com/shocked-at-the-viciousness-six-assailants-beat-jewish-man-on-new-york-city-street/

Security guard at Columbus Jewish school arrested for making online anti-Semitic threats: According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”

https://www.jns.org/security-guard-at-columbus-jewish-school-arrested-for-making-online-anti-semitic-threats/

No charges will be filed in fatal police shooting of Amir Locke, killed during no-knock warrant service

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/us/amir-locke-shooting-police-no-charges/index.html

Some women shared the messages they get on Instagram. It’s not pretty. A study that looked at over 8,700 direct messages to five high-profile women on Instagram finds the platform failed to act on 90 percent of the abuse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/06/instagram-women-harassment/

Dad who lived in dorm convicted of abusing daughter’s pals

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-education-6bc73ea0314cef6b21d72e592cd04456

We look at “the Putin wing” of the Republican Party.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2

SPLC Releases Annual Year in Hate & Extremism Report: When Hate Goes Mainstream

https://yubanet.com/usa/splc-releases-annual-year-in-hate-extremism-report-when-hate-goes-mainstream/

The Year in Hate & Extremism Report 2021

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021

The Year in Hate & Extremism Report 2021

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#hate-group-numbers

The Extreme Right’s Pivot to (Live) Video

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#pivot-live-video

A White Nationalist’s Journey Through Alt-Tech

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#nick-fuentes

The Year in Unity and Resilience

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#community-resilience

What We Do Now: Policy Recommendations

https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#policy-change

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The Vicious Cycle of Covid-19 and Economic Inequality: The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

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Year Three of the Covid Pandemic: Two years ago this week, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Here’s what we’ve learned – and refused to learn – as the virus rages on.

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The “Solidarity” Trap: Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165694/ukraine-covid-solidarity

The Pandemic Sparked a Golden Age of Crypto Scams: Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

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This Is How Covid Started. And Here’s How We Stop the Next One. The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165667/covid-started-heres-stop-next-one

The Pandemic Gave America a Painfully Brief Glimpse of a Better Health Care System: The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165640/pandemic-broken-health-care-system

The Atlantic Daily: Feminism Has Never Been Enough. Two writers challenge common ideas about feminism and gender.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/womens-history-month-feminism-sexism/627047/

CDC's new COVID metrics can leave individuals struggling to understand their risk

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/10/1085797307/cdcs-new-covid-metrics-can-leave-individuals-struggling-to-understand-their-risk

COVID-19 Metrics for United States Congressional Districts

https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/coviduscongress

Public policy and health in the Trump era

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext

COVID-19 STATS FOR March 13, 2022

https://pdamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/COVID-stats-3-13-2022.pdf

21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

https://berniesanders.com/21st-century-economic-bill-of-rights/

PDA Calls Upon Progressive Candidates to Endorse a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

https://pdamerica.org/pda-calls-upon-progressive-candidates-to-endorse-a-21st-century-economic-bill-of-rights/

Amazon Misses Trump, Badly: The Biden administration’s growing antitrust activity surprised the corporate behemoth, which had expected kid gloves from Democrats.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165722/amazon-biden-antitrust-monopoly-bezos

CDC: Omicron variant BA.2 spreading rapidly across New York and New Jersey

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/omicron-variant-ba2-ny-nj/

Too Fast or Too Furious? More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165661/rise-traffic-deaths-car-crashes-pandemic-stress

The Hypocrisy of Biden's New "Blame the Unvaccinated" Strategy: As long as we’re blaming individuals, we are not talking about how the Biden administration’s policies are failing the world.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-blame-unvaccinated-patent-waiver-global-south-public-health

“Queremos Vivir”: The Workers Who Wouldn’t Die for the Pentagon. Maquiladora workers in the border city of Mexicali strike against working conditions.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/workerstrike-bordercity-pandemic-mexicali-manquiladoras-how-workers-fought-against-weapons-companies-workers-rights-covid19

‘I Still Just Worry’: 3 Teachers on Covid’s Long Shadow Over American Schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/sunday-review/pandemic-school-education.html

Why Does the CDC Keep Screwing Up? Two years into the Covid pandemic, the agency is still confusing the public with contradictory, erratic messaging.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165827/cdc-communication-face-masks-walensky-risk

California Cautiously Charts Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.populist.com/28.06.Sandronsky.html

How covid brain fog may overlap with ‘chemo brain’ and Alzheimer’s: Researchers say the brain inflammation in long covid is similar to that in cancer patients

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/27/covid-brain-fog-chemo-brain-alzheimers-disease/

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True Colors

https://www.laprogressive.com/true-colors/

Post-Pandemic Recovery Will Be Green and Feminist, or It Won’t Be

https://www.laprogressive.com/post-pandemic-recovery/

Oil Companies Are Making a Fortune From Soaring Prices. Democrats Want to Take Some of It Back.

ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and other Democrats in Congress propose a windfall tax to change that.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165658/windfall-tax-whitehouse-khanna-common-wealth

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: When Technology Becomes A Business… - Premiered Mar 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoAEvZPaNSA

Streaming Platforms, Stealing Profits - Anti-Capitalist Chronicles with David Harvey - Mar 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdNG28j4A

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Corporations Donate To Charities - Mar 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJNVXn6ipY

Economic Update: What Marx & Marxism Offer Us Today – Mar 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp06rcwYNdg

Feudalism to Slavery to Capitalism -Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REOxUvKIUH4

Capitalism Will End. What Is A Better System? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOI9TlZ8_U

Ask Prof Wolff: Critical Theory & Critical Race Theory - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-du0NnkD0

Richard Wolff | Inflation CRIPPLES Societies - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9GpFl3KZ4

Richard Wolff on a New Era of Financial Warfare - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrfY9kgswKA

Inflation: A Slap in the Face of the Working Class - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Mar 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeItBzhlxTs

Economic Update: Ukraine, Race and Class - Premiered Mar 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBTKAYcHGQw

The New World Order - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBPD8uCa_U

Ask Prof Wolff: Socialism & Personal Savings - Mar 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW-NbV8nT-8

How Do We Deal With Hunger? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) - Mar 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-l9GQjh_Y

Ukraine Attack Sparks Worldwide Economic Fallout. Professor Wolff Joins - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2PMgivziQ

Ask Prof Wolff: Can Market Socialism and Marxism Coexist? - Mar 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpR41pRdMA

Inflation Scapegoats - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Mar 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXqybsFgeU

Economic Update: Christian Socialism - Premiered Mar 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2YtQGRw0E

Christianity in the Image of Capitalism - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Tk7vNSTp8

When Companies Tax the People - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ka8ssyCuU

How Putin’s Demand for Ruble Payments for Gas Will Play Out (w/ Richard Wolff) - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afI0GDyIHnY

Ask Prof Wolff: Can Public Enterprises Compete With Private? - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HdQte1y4WA

Prof. Richard Wolff on Revolution, Imagination, and the Written Word - Premiered Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0BQOBSTBTg

Chris Hedges | Richard Wolff: The Future Of The American Economy - Premiered Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXa4TR23L2A

Ask Prof Wolff: US Dollar vs. China's Yuan - Apr 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkMBbswxwFI

Solutions for Inflation? Capitalism Faces a Dead End - Richard Wolff - Apr 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddi849PJ7Jw

Economic Update: Amazon Workers Organize a Union - Premiered Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJPaAslOkg

Richard Wolff | NO WAY OUT - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRzRyzNW0M

What Will Happen to the US Dollar after The Russia & Ukraine Conflict? - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYI3xJ9cOA

Ask Prof Wolff: Elections and Canada's New Democratic Party - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB8D3tiuJVc

Ask Prof Wolff: What Ray Dalio Misses in His Analysis of Empire - Apr 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9jlq_7taI4

The Great Resignation Shows That Managers Need Unions as Much as Workers Do: Growing evidence suggests that businesses lack the ability to address worker dissatisfaction. Time to restore an old model.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165700/great-resignation-quits-rate-managers-need-unions

Liberal Redneck - Gas Prices and Joe Biden - Mar 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuVLpMm60I

A 21st-Century Economic Bill of Rights (w/ Prof. Harvey Kaye & Alan Minsky) - Premiered Mar 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQDPDw4c-s

Widening Inequalities of Place: Wealth & Poverty Class 4

https://www.laprogressive.com/widening-inequalities/

Monopoly, Organized Labor, and Antitrust: Wealth & Poverty Class 5

https://www.laprogressive.com/monopoly-2/

Battling Amazon in Alabama: Amazon Union Appeals for Support as It Fights Arrests of Organizers; Pro-union Rallies Held in Bessemer, Alabama

https://www.laprogressive.com/battling-amazon-in-alabama/

CITIZEN by CNN: How America Works - Mar 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBZlHrRL6w

Democrats Are Wondering How to Run on Inflation. They Can’t Run Away From It. High prices are likely to linger, but the worst thing Democrats up for reelection can do is to pretend the problem doesn’t exist.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165750/democrats-inflation-2022-midterm-election-message

Capitalism Hits Home: The Origins of Racism - An Untold History – Premiered Mar 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbctxXo7yEo

Bacon's Rebellion - Capitalism Hits Home - Mar 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sigWqC6qOpA

How Big Pharma Took Over Medicine: A conversation with Alexander Zaitchik, author of “Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine From Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines”

https://newrepublic.com/article/165737/monopoly-medicine-big-pharma-alexander-zaitchik

What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers: Amid historic protests, walkouts, and union votes, the pandemic put the impacts of income inequality on stark display—and galvanized a movement.

https://civileats.com/2022/03/17/what-a-surge-in-union-organizing-means-for-food-and-farm-workers/

Paul Farmer, 1959–2022: Farewell to a friend.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paul-farmer-obituary/

How Congress Made Sure the Rich Retire in Luxury—at Taxpayer Expense: Savings plans pitched as helping the middle class have turned out to be a gold mine for the wealthy.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/retirement-savings-plans-favor-rich-wealth-gap-tax-incentives-portman-cardin-congress-secure-act/

Smart Ass Cripple: Flying the Unfriendly Skies

https://progressive.org/magazine/flying-the-unfriendly-skies-ervin/

‘That Was What Hurt the Most’

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Hemming and Hawing: More Important than Convenience

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“Don’t Work” and Other Lessons From the Marxist Feminism of Meridel Le Sueur: The radical fiction of this Depression-era writer is painfully relevant to the present.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/depression-era-marxist-feminist-writer-activist-working-class-labor-movement

Chevron pulls union workers from California refinery ahead of strike

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/union-workers-chevron-refinery-prepare-strike-monday-2022-03-20/

Finland tops U.N. World Happiness Report for 5th year in a row, U.S. comes in 16th

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Gas Prices, Propaganda, Politics, and War: Until they run into trouble, corporations love to tout, and practice, free market capitalism, preferably completely unregulated.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/gas-prices

Combat Homelessness by Expanding State-Funded Housing Opportunities: Homekey provides local public entities with large, capital grants that can be used to purchase existing buildings and convert them into housing for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/combat-homelessness

With Midterms Looming, Why Don't Dems Have a Clue? With inflation soaring and gas prices spiking, the Democrats could soon find themselves in the basement.

https://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/midterms-looming

It is time to take on corporate greed. - Mar 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o57d5aR7oj8

The same companies who sold out American workers are in line to get $53 billion in corporate welfare - Mar 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2KcJfiKa7Y

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: War - Who Benefits From It? - Premiered Mar 24, 2022

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Washington Has Pushed Children to the Edge of the Cliff: A fiscal crisis is looming for the childcare industry, and the Democrats don’t have the votes to do anything about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165856/childcare-crisis-fiscal-cliff

Amazon Warehouses Are Relentless, Dangerous Workplaces—but It’s Hard to Punish Them for It, Thanks to Bill Clinton: Washington state fined the company this week for its hazardous work pace, but there’s no federal regulation governing ergonomic injuries because of bad decisions made in the other Washington, ages ago.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165842/amazon-warehouse-washington-ergonomics-regulation-osha-clinton

Medical fundraising for the expenses insurance doesn't cover

https://helphopelive.org/

Fighting Back Scholarship Program

https://www.fightingbacksp.org

Sometimes Even the Pushers Have to Pay

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Rollins.html

FROMA HARROP: The old normal gets new appreciation

https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/froma-harrop-the-old-normal-gets-new-appreciation/article_8615f3ec-9a82-11ec-86b8-8316f7ac4fda.html

Global Food Chains Face More Uncertainty, More Instability

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Guebert.html

Biden’s Economic Plans Are Solid, But We Need Action: The president’s SOTU address tasked Congress with an ambitious agenda, but Biden needs to do much more on his own.

https://www.populist.com/28.06.S.Anderson.html

Is the State of Our Union Strong Enough to Extract More Domestic Sacrifice?

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Polman.html

The Inflation Conundrum: There is a lot that can be done to restrain prices that doesn’t sandbag the recovery with higher interest rates.

https://prospect.org/economy/the-inflation-conundrum/

Cross-Border Solidarity Will Forge Economic Justice

https://www.usw.org/blog/2022/cross-border-solidarity-will-forge-economic-justice

There’s No Sugarcoating Hershey’s Abuse of Workers and Union-Busting Tactics

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/01/theres-no-sugarcoating-hersheys-abuse-of-workers-and-union-busting-tactics/

Has US capitalism reached the end of the road? Are the options plutocracy or fascism?

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Wolff.html

The Poor: Attention Must be Paid

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Retsinas.html

AIDS is Back

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Uretsky.html

Dollars and Sense

https://www.populist.com/28.06.OLeary.html

Anhedonia, or Things I Used to Like

https://www.populist.com/28.06.Friedman.html

California consumer advocates counterattack at corporate crime and control

https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/ralph-nader-california-advocates-counterattack-corporate-crime-and-control/article_e5a77786-911d-11ec-bde3-c3a57a917a75.html

It’s the Inflation, Stupid

https://rall.com/2022/02/24/its-the-inflation-stupid

How I 'Zoom' through deadlines every week with friends

https://www.semissourian.com/story/2937715.html

Is The Threat of Poverty Keeping You Awake? - Mar 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAon5MOQtkM

Biden Throws Labor a Bone, When We Need Steak: The White House’s Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment suggests stronger laws are needed for fundamental change in labor movement. So where are they?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-administration-falls-short-in-organized-labor

Starbucks Workers Are Facing Down One of the Most Intense Union-Busting Campaigns in Decades

Workers at more than 100 Starbucks stores in 27 states have filed union petitions for elections. In response, the company has launched a relentless anti-union effort.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-organizing-union-labor-coffee-historic-campaign

Like a Moth to To a Flame, Workers Unite: The Triangle shirtwaist factory fire continues to inspire and motivate current labor movements 111 years later.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-live-through-modern-day-organizing

FDA Must Promptly Punish Researchers at Minnesota Hospital Who Conducted Unethical High-Risk Experiments, Require Patients Be Informed Their Rights Were Violated: Doctors Violated FDA Regulations When They Performed Risky Sedation Experiments on Unwitting Patients

https://www.citizen.org/news/fda-must-promptly-punish-researchers-at-minnesota-hospital-who-conducted-unethical-high-risk-experiments-require-patients-be-informed-their-rights-were-violated/

Biden Wants to Raid the Billionaires’ Club: His budget proposal to tax the wealth of America’s top plutocrats may face an uphill battle in Congress, but it signals a new midterm message.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165872/budget-plan-billionaires-tax-2022

Lower U.S. Fertility Presents an Opportunity for Advancing Equality

https://populationconnection.org/learn/population-economy/

America Must Choose Between Great Wealth or Democracy: Biden is now promoting a tax on the top 0.01% and billionaires are already fuming. It’s a start to what’ll be necessary to bring back a functioning democracy & middle class

https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-must-choose-between-great

Biden’s Real Challenge: Ending the Epidemic of Insecurity. It’s not just the pandemic, inflation, or the war—it’s how they blend together to disrupt the foundations of our lives.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165884/bidens-end-epidemic-insecurity

Biden Has Been Touting the Middle Class for Two Years, but the Middle Class May Not Be Listening

A new poll has some pretty grim economic news for Democrats: Respondents associate the phrase “middle class” more with Republicans.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165901/biden-middle-class-2022-midterms

Biden’s Billionaires’ Tax Is Mainly a Way to Avoid Taxing the Rich: Joe Manchin already shot it down, so it’s moot, but there are far easier ways to tax the rich if the Democrats really want to.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165898/biden-billionaires-tax-democrats-avoid-taxing-rich

How the Drug War Dies: Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/drug-war-consensus/

The Brave New World of Legalized Psychedelics Is Already Here: And so are the profiteers. Get ready for Psychedelics Inc.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/legal-drugs-psychedelics-corporate/

Making Mushrooms Legal: After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/legalized-mushrooms/

Breaking Off My Chemical Romance: We deserve a fuller picture of both the benefits and dangers of antidepressants.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ssri-antidepressant-side-effects/

The War on Weed Decimated My Community—Will There Be Restitution? Legalization offers a chance to restore a fragment of what was lost by Black and Afro-Latinx communities pummeled by prohibition, but so far, white business are claiming the spoils.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marijuana-legalization-equity/

From Opium to Saffron, the Ancients Knew a Thing or Two About Drugs: Scholars of antiquity are finding ever more evidence that psychoactive substances played a central role in ancient life.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ancient-world-drugs/

How the Netherlands Became a Global Cocaine Hub: The surge in trafficking through the Port of Rotterdam has coincided with spectacular violence.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cocaine-trafficking-netherlands/

Lessons from Eviction Court

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/lessons-from-eviction-court/

Give Us Shelter!

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/give-us-shelter-kaiser/

Why Universal Programs Are a Good Thing, Actually

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/why-universal-programs-are-a-good-thing-actually/

Biden Authorizes Release Of One Million Barrels Of Oil From Strategic Reserve Per Day - Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dqNXPXZsvc

Anybody who thinks we do not have an oligarchy right here in America is sorely mistaken - Mar 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Mw1Bspb2M

David Weil’s Defeat on the Senate Floor Is an Outrage: What’s the point of a Democratic Party if it isn’t going to protect the interests of working people?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165934/david-weil-labor-biden-nominee-defeat-senate-floor

Capitalism Hits Home: Why The Women’s Liberation Movement Fractured - Premiered Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6CPVFzR_U

Here’s What It’s Like Having $100 Billion vs. $1 Billion | Robert Reich - Mar 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBWwynxgRU

Don’t Privatize Water: The case for keeping public goods under democratic control

https://newrepublic.com/article/165928/water-public-good-review-privatization-everything

Jim Hightower: Who's in Control?

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-whos-in-control/article_a9c1c309-16c9-5dd8-b51b-2458f6321b80.html

A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/a-rube-goldberg-inflationary-spiral/

It’s Not Just Inflation — It’s Price Gouging: Corporations are using “inflation” as a cover to hike prices and record record profits. We’ve got the proof.

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Owens.html

Foster Care: Picking Up the Slack

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Rollins.html

Supply Chain Problems Continue as Inflation Jumps In February

https://cepr.net/prices-2022-03/

Ease the Oil Pain by Suspending Gasoline Taxes

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Joseph.html

The End of Globalism: The world economic and financial system will never be the same.

https://prospect.org/world/end-of-globalism/

How to stop big oil from profiteering off Putin? Hit them with a windfall profits tax

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/windfall-profits?s=r

Misogyny Redux

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Retsinas.html

Addressing Racial Inequality in Paid Leave Policy: Among care advocates, equitable paid leave policy needs to meet the triple A standard: Accessible, affordable and adequate.

https://www.populist.com/28.07.Entralgo.html

Ralph Nader: Going For Tax Reform Big Time – OpEd

https://www.eurasiareview.com/14032022-ralph-nader-going-for-tax-reform-big-time-oped/

‘A song for Cesar’ tells the story of the labor movement in the 1960s

https://progressive.org/latest/song-for-cesar-rampell-220311/

Baseball is back

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/baseball-lockout-mlb/

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Prior authorization is part of what's wrong with our health care system

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/bonnie-jean-feldkamp-prior-authorization-is-part-of-whats-wrong-with-our-health-care-system/article_df7d9fd5-3194-54b6-869a-c15528f1e203.html

Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Op-Docs - Oct 12, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk&t=390s

China May Help Central Asian Countries Amid Global Grain Supply Disruption

https://www.voanews.com/a/china-may-help-central-asian-countries-amid-global-grain-supply-disruption-/6511683.html

As Ukraine war hikes prices, Global South farmers struggle to find fertilizer

https://news.trust.org/item/20220401051553-syx9h/

Penn Researchers Discover New Cell Type in Human Lung with Regenerative Properties: Findings shine light on underpinnings of COPD, pave new direction for future research on treatments

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2022/april/penn-researchers-discover-new-cell-type-in-human-lung-with-regenerative-properties

Oligarchs vs. All of Us: The Fight for Power and Money: Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni5Dj0ZYLsA

Meet The Billionaire Mercenaries of the 21st Century - Apr 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nueUHACjTAc

Your House Makes More Money Than You Do: Why labor can’t compete with real estate

https://newrepublic.com/article/165980/labor-real-estate-economic-inequality

Workers are standing together and fighting back all over the country. - Apr 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkD_YT3C6fM

The Art of the Pump: Prediction markets are filled with predators and fake news. But they’re the one place in politics where nothing is more valuable than the truth.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-art-of-the-pump/

Laboratories of Anti-Monopoly: States are on the front line of the fight against corporate consolidation.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/laboratories-of-anti-monopoly/

The Strike Zone: Little-known labor heroes provide a path forward for today.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-strike-zone/

Near the Mexican Border, Texas University Uses Value and Smarts to Help Students Stay Enrolled: By keeping tuition low and offering generous aid to its Hispanic student body, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley has lessons for the rest of the country.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/near-the-mexican-border-texas-university-uses-value-and-smarts-to-help-students-stay-enrolled/

Prevent Your Utilities from Being Shut Off in Philadelphia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJvTMatE448

Twitter’s Elon Musk Trap: The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166001/twitters-elon-musk-trap

Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.

https://basicincometoday.com/congress-found-an-easy-way-to-fix-child-poverty-then-it-walked-away/

What recent union victories tell me is that working people are sick and tired of being exploited. - Apr 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7S22UhguHk

It is not acceptable for corporate America to make huge profits ripping off working families. - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIp158_kO8

Will the Billionaires Be Able to Quell the Growing Union Movement? - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qapax-xtsKQ

100 years of working for economic justice in West Virginia

https://www.afsc.org/story/100-years-working-economic-justice-west-virginia

Biden again extends pause in federal student loan payments - Apr 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8CwOHyhtLc

Within the Capitol, Senate Restaurant Workers Struggle: Eighty-one Senate restaurant workers had their jobs saved … for now.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166029/within-capitol-senate-restaurant-workers-struggle

A Call for All Progressive Candidates and Officeholders to Embrace a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights: We must guarantee all people residing in the United States the right to the essentials of a good life regardless of their income, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or country of origin.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/23/call-all-progressive-candidates-and-officeholders-embrace-21st-century-economic

See Mitch McConnell Shredded: 'Sold His Soul For A Tax Cut' - Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8frDL9WvE

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Capitalist Growth and Finite Resources - Premiered Apr 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJ6BCYJ998

Team Biden Strikes a Major Blow for Labor: The NLRB’s Jennifer Abruzzo argues boldly that management “captive audience” meetings are illegal.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166059/jennifer-abruzzo-nlrb-amazon-biden-strikes-blow-labor

The Invention of “Accidents”: Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166004/invention-accidents-car-crash-deaths-jessie-singer-book-review

Bidding Adieu to SEIU: Lessons for Young Labor Organizers?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bidding-adieu-to-seiu-les_b_2258963

Jane McAlevey: Worker Power in 2021 and Beyond - Jan 24, 2021