Health Care

Philly Nurses Strike: ‘If nurses are out here, something is wrong in there’

In early November, members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) in four Philadelphia area hospitals…

November 30, 2020

COVID-19 in Oregon: Prison laundry workers at greatest risk

Portland, Ore. In November, three Oregon prisons — Two Rivers, Salem, and Snake River — reported the state’s highest rate…

November 30, 2020

Crímenes de lesa humanidad: ¡Acusamos de genocidio!

El viernes 20 de noviembre, se diagnosticaron más de 200.000 casos nuevos de COVID-19 en los EE.UU. ¡En solo ese…

November 30, 2020

Protest demands health care is a right – Treat Tyejaun or free him!

Martinez, Calif.  Family members, friends, social workers, teachers and prisoners’ rights advocates converged on the Martinez Detention Facility in Martinez,…

November 25, 2020

Growing threats to workers’ homes

In March and April, over 22 million workers in the United States lost their jobs. So far, the stumbling economic…

November 25, 2020

Living with addiction and COVID-19

In the countrywide COVID-19 epidemic, it is easy to forget that the most vulnerable among us include those with opioid…

November 25, 2020

Crimes against humanity: We charge genocide!

On Friday, Nov. 20, over 200,000 new cases of the COVID-19 were diagnosed in the U.S. — on that one…

November 24, 2020

La pandemia se eleva y la economía se afloja

Realmente es bastante repugnante. La burguesía calcula las pérdidas y ganancias con insensible desprecio por las masas que sufren tanto…

November 24, 2020

Montana issues COVID death sentence to prisoners

Montana State Prison reported Nov. 6 that Robert Gonzalez, 70, died Oct. 24 of COVID and that “underlying health conditions…

November 23, 2020

Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus

Philadelphia When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with…

November 20, 2020