2020-04-13: Social Media Postees

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Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections Are Fair and Free
David Daley | zcomm.org | 2020-04-13
Interview on gerrymandering and voting rights that have fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections…
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Sanders joins Biden livestream to give full-throated ENDORSEMENT
rt.com | 2020-04-13
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made a surprising appearance on former Vice President joe Biden's livestream to give the rival for the Democrat presidential nomination an enthusiastic endorsement against President Donald Trump. | Denouncing Trump as a "racist, sexist, homophobe" who "lies all the time," Sanders announced he was now supporting Biden's presidential bid. The self-described democratic socialist had suspended his campaign last week, saying he would stay on the ballot to influence party policy at the convention

Biden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Karyn Strickler | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his run for President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. But not so fast. Sanders' voters are going to support Biden when he earns it. Sanders blazed new trails of climate leadership, making it compulsory to have multi-billion dollar plans to decarbonize. He defined the terms of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/biden-must-become-the-climate-commander-in-chief/

Thank You, Bernie; Screw You, New York Times
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that's just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for the nomination. On that day, in a special editorial, the editors of the very same paper that disparaged…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/thank-you-bernie-screw-you-new-york-times/

Sanders Says Congress Must Stop Trump From Privatizing the Postal Service
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-13
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday urged Congress to act immediately to stop President Donald Trump from using the novel coronavirus outbreak "as an opportunity to bankrupt and privatize…
truthout.org/articles/sanders-says-congress-must-stop-trump-from-privatizing-the-postal-service/

Bernie Sanders Forced Open the Books on the Last Bailout
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-04-13
A Washington Post piece that noted the lack of disclosure requirements in the current round of bailouts referred to efforts to force disclosures in the last bailout. It only noted a suit by Bloomberg to force the Fed to make disclosures: "During the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve refused to turn over to reporters …
cepr.net/bernie-sanders-forced-open-the-books-on-the-last-bailout/

"Reckless and Irresponsible": Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump's Promotion of Hydroxychloroquine
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-13
The coronavirus hot spot Detroit is the site of the first major U.S. study into whether or not the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine could help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This comes after weeks of President Trump promoting the drug despite warnings from medical experts. "There's been a lot of hype from the president, and that is so problematic, because we know that hydroxychloroquine … has some potential side effects that can be really dangerous," responds Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and epidemiologist who is the former head of Detroit's Health Department.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/13/detroit_hydroxychloroquine_study_coronavirus

Wash Your Hands? Despite Pandemic, Thousands Still Have No Water in Detroit, a Coronavirus Hot Spot
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-13
Water shutoffs continue amid the coronavirus pandemic in Detroit, despite a moratorium and a program to help thousands of residents restore service last month. The lack of water access comes as nearly 1,500 people in Michigan have died from COVID-19, and 40% of those who have died are African-American, despite making up just 14% of the state's population. We speak with community pastor and activist Rev. Roslyn Bouier, who has been working with residents to restore their water.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/13/detroit_michigan_water_shut_offs

What Trump Knew & When He Knew It: NYT on How Trump Ignored COVID-19 Warnings Until It Was Too Late
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-13
As the United States surpasses the coronavirus death toll of any country in the world with more than 22,000 dead, we look how President Trump led the country to this point with Eric Lipton, lead author of The New York Times's explosive new exposé, "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/13/trump_coronavirus_response_eric_lipton_nyt

Joe Biden is Your Enemy
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
There's a video of Lawrence O'Donnell, spokesperson for MSNBC, saying in 2020 what he's paid to say, namely that electing a candidate with a platform you approve of is somehow in conflict with electing a candidate who can win. The logic of this is that most people are expected to vote for a candidate with a less…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/joe-biden-is-your-enemy/

Wisconsin's Unconscionable Sham
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Wisconsin might have just decided the November election for Trump at the expense of its own citizens' lives. As of April 7, the state's primary election day, there were 2,511 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state, with the disease continuing to spread. Thanks to Wisconsin Republicans and the U.S. Supreme Court, the people of…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/wisconsins-unconscionable-sham/

Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic, While the US Capitalizes on Disaster
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-13
The virus does not discriminate, attacking oppressed and oppressor alike. Unfortunately, the US government does more than discriminate. Washington has seen the pandemic as an opportunity.
mintpressnews.com/solidarity-during-pandemic-us-capitalizes-covid-19/266557/

How Big Tech Is Preparing for a Biden Presidency
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-13
Washington Monthly See article on original site Three days after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he took press questions standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a figure now vilified by his base: ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Back then, Big Tech didn't need to ask if it had a seat at the table of a Democratic presidential …
cepr.net/how-big-tech-is-preparing-for-a-biden-presidency/

Biden joins the "back-to-work" bandwagon
wsws.org | 2020-04-13
Biden's main concern is "how we get our economy back on track," in other words, how the American capitalist class can resume the process of extracting profit from the labor of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/13/bide-a13.html

New York City Tops US With Over 100,000 Coronavirus Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-13
New York City saw confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass the 100,000 mark to reach 103,208 by midnight Sunday with a death toll of 6,898, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. | RELATED: | The US Seeks to Set New Military Base in Syria Amid Pandemic | Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday that the city would open five new testing centers in hardest-hit communities to address previously-found disparities among different racial groups and between the rich and the poor. | "
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Apocalypse Now: Stop the Madness
Ronnie Cummins | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
"April is the cruelest month." –T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland," 1922 COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods, climate stability, democracy–our very survival as a human species–is under attack. If we're going to survive this pandemic, and avoid the pandemics lying in wait, if we're going…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/121523/

Brazilian Democracy Is Dead
Fernando Horta | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-13
The word is that that General Braga Netto is the new "acting president" of Brazil. Firstly, this position does not legally exist. We live in a presidential system, and the power of the executive is in the hands of the …
globalresearch.ca/brazilian-democracy-dead/5709490

The Use and Abuse of MMT
Michael Hudson, Dirk Bezemer, Steve Kern and T. Sabri àñncàº | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Summary After being attacked by monetarists and others for many decades, MMT and the idea that running government budget deficit is stabilizing instead of destabilizing are suddenly gaining applause from the parts of the political spectrum that long opposed MMT: the banking and financial sector, especially the Republicans. But what is applauded is in many…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/the-use-and-abuse-of-mmt/

Digital Day of Action to #ShutDown850 Bryant St
No New SF Jails | indybay.org | 2020-04-13
Phone, Email, and Social Media…
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Q&A w/ Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Coronavirus Relief that Puts People First
MoveOn, Congressional Progressive Caucus Cntr | indybay.org | 2020-04-13
Online via Zoom…
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WHO sets up Ebola vaccination sites in DR Congo
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-13
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it has set up Ebola vaccination centers in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a day after a second virus-linked death in the country's northeastern region.Pop-up vaccination sites were rapidly set up in Beni to vaccinate contacts linked to recent Ebola deaths in the area, the WHO African Region said on Twitter.It said that the WHO and other partners were working to overcome resistance, and break the chain of transmission within the community.For the last few weeks, no new case had been reported until last Friday when a 26-year-old man died of Ebola in the cit…
yenisafak.com/en/world/who-sets-up-ebola-vaccination-sites-in-dr-congo-3516780

US: Storms in Deep South kill 11, emergency imposed
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-13
At least 11 people died and hundreds of buildings were damaged as storms lashed the southern state of Mississippi in the U.S. on Easter Sunday.The fatalities and multiple injuries were confirmed on the official Twitter page of the state's Emergency Management Agency.Mississippi's Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency on Sunday night "to protect the health and safety of Mississippians in response to the severe tornadoes and storms."National Weather Service officials said powerful winds were sweeping through the state, with multiple tornadoes reported at the Alabama state line and in Louisia…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-storms-in-deep-south-kill-11-emergency-imposed-3516777

US Lacks Enough Coronavirus Tests to Let People Go Back to Work – Pelosi, Schumer
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-13
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Trump Ignored COVID-19 Warnings Until It Was Too Late
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-13
As the United States surpasses the coronavirus death toll of any country in the world with more than 22,000 dead, we look how President Trump led the country to this point with Eric Lipton, lead author of The New York Times's explosive new exposé, "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus." | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I'm Amy Goodman. As the United States surpasses the death toll of any country in the world with mo…
truthout.org/video/trump-ignored-covid-19-warnings-until-it-was-too-late/

Believe all women? New York Times only remembers its journalistic skepticism when it's Biden in the crosshairs
rt.com | 2020-04-12
For anyone running for office in modern America, accusations of sexual assault are par for the course. But when it comes to weighing up these accusations, the US' mainstream paper of record applies some very uneven standards. | Take Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee. If doubts weren't already raised by his fondness for sniffing women, the emergence last month of a sexual assault allegation against the former vice president could have caused a major headache for his campaign. | Yet amid the coronav…
rt.com/usa/485620-biden-new-york-times-kavanaugh/

They murdered him, and gave us Obama & Biden
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-12
Tupac Shakur passionately explains his views on generosity and responsibility, traits he feels some people with extreme wealth like Donald Trump lack, in this MTV News clip from 1992.
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New York: New social distancing fines attack workers, not coronavirus
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-12
New York, NY – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that he has increased the maximum fines for not adhering to social distancing orders. Previously $500, the maximum fines suddenly jumped to $1000. The NYPD has also started arresting people for not social distancing, which New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio claims "is about educating people, helping them understanding the new reality." | While it is of course important that those who are able to work from home keep others safe through social distancing, the increase in fines will primarily affect essential workers, many of whom are still forced to…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/11/new-york-new-social-distancing-fines-attack-workers-not-coronavirus

We Can't Allow Trump to Use the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack the Postal Service
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-12
The financially strapped United States Postal Service wound up with crumbs in the $2.2 trillion stimulus deal, despite playing a vital role in our nation's public health and economic stability at this time of crisis. | Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) accused President Trump of personally intervening to strip a Democratic postal rescue proposal from the final bill. Asked on Tuesday for his response, Trump lashed out at the beleaguered Postal Service with a stream of false accusations. | "They los…
truthout.org/articles/we-cant-allow-trump-to-use-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-attack-the-postal-service/

Amid COVID-19, It's Time to Nationalize Airlines and Other Industries
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-12
The $2 trillion stimulus bill that Congress passed on March 27 gave billions to industries like the airlines, but it did not explicitly give money to the oil and gas industry. Senate Democrats negotiated out the $3 billion to oil and gas (and lost clean energy provisions in the meantime) that Trump wanted to fill oil reserves "to the top." The omission was a tiny win for the climate [m…
truthout.org/articles/amid-covid-19-its-time-to-nationalize-airlines-and-other-industries/

Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
Welcome to Moyers on Democracy. | Bill's guest in this episode is the journalist David Daley. His best-selling first book, Ratf**ked

Biden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Karyn Strickler | commondreams.org | 2020-04-11
Over 150 middle and high school students demonstrated at the U.S. Capitol building urging senators to back the Green New Deal. (Photo: Sunrise Movement) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sunrise_climate.jpg …
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NY's Cuomo pleases crowds with 'Hero Compensation Fund' for healthcare workers… after 9 years of hospital cuts
rt.com | 2020-04-11
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has launched a fund to support sick healthcare workers and their families, but some blame him for the dire working conditions facing the state's caregivers after nine years of hospital budget cuts. | Cuomo announced the state is working on a "Covid-19 Heroes Compensation Fund" to support healthcare workers and their families who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus during his daily briefing on Friday. It was heralded by his growing Democratic fan club as a generous, thoughtful move from a politician who cares about the "frontline workers." | AAbsent from the lovefest was any…
rt.com/usa/485546-cuomo-panders-healthcare-heroes-hospitals/

'They're planning to replace Joe': Bernie's press secretary says Dems will toss Biden before November
rt.com | 2020-04-10
The former press chief for the Bernie Sanders campaign has lashed out at the Democratic Party, arguing that it will hand a political victory to Trump and corporate oligarchs if it doesn't "replace" Joe Biden with a better nominee. | "Bernie was too kind to go after Biden, but it's coming," said Briahna Joy Gray, press secretary for the now suspended presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. | Either Dem leadership cares more about maintaining a corporate status quo than getting rid of Trump, or they're planning to replace Joe

Bernie supporters: Join the Coalition to March on the DNC
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-10
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention. | On April 8, Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 Democratic primary campaign. The Sanders campaign has inspired millions of working class and oppressed people, including an overwhelming majority of young people. The movement-building emphasis of the Sanders campaign is what truly sets it apart from anything seen in the U.S. since perhaps Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition in the 1980s. | What Sanders's candidacy demonstrated again in 2020 is that working and oppressed people in t…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/10/bernie-supporters-join-coalition-march-dnc

A Victory for the Fogeys: Bernie Sanders Drops Out
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-10
Champagne corks will be popping in the Trump Empire for good reason. Whatever happens come November, the exit of Senator Bernie Sanders from the US presidential race will be a relief. The fractured republic can be reassured that the Democrats have not moved on, stuck, as it were, in the glades of vengeful melancholia and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-victory-for-the-fogeys-bernie-sanders-drops-out/

Noam Chomsky on Trump's Disastrous Coronavirus Response, Bernie Sanders & What Gives Him Hope
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-10
How did the United States

Thank you, Bernie. Screw You, New York Times
Laura Flanders | fair.org | 2020-04-10
| It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that's just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for the nomination. On that day, in a special editorial ( 4/9/20), the editors of the very same paper that disparaged his every move opined that America is divided and our democracy corrupt, and launched a series promising to report on just the sort of transformative policies Sanders advocated. The New York Times (
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Covid-19 : The terrifying numbers of a global crisis slowly unravelling before us
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-10
TruePublica Editor: Leaving aside the devastating effects on the lives of people, the rapidly intensifying economic effects of COVID-19 on the world of economies and employment is already proving to be far worse than the 2008-9 financial crisis. And from a democratic point of view, more than two billion people live in countries where parliaments …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/covid-19-the-terrifying-numbers-of-a-global-crisis-slowly-unravelling-before-us/

Joe Biden, Here's How to Earn Our Support
Waleed Shahid | thenation.com | 2020-04-10
Joe Biden, Here's How to Earn Our Support…
thenation.com/article/politics/biden-earn-young-voters/

Emmanuel Barthélemy: A revolutionary who became a tawdry tabloid tale
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-10
Books & music History Phil ShannonIssue 1260 AustraliaApril 10, 2020 | The Murderer Of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary | Marc Mulholland | W F Howes Ltd, 2019 | It is the sad, but not entirely undeserved, fate of Emmanuel Barthélem…
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'This Is a Bad Idea… Really Bad': Bloomberg Data Strategy Firm Makes Bid to Run Biden Campaign
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-10
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Suspending the Campaign, Not the Movement: Sanders Pulls Out of 2020 Race But Will Stay on Ballot
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-09
Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee to face Donald Trump in November. Sanders says he will stay on the ballot in remaining primary races and continue to assemble delegates. We play highlights from Sanders's speech to supporters in a live stream on Wednesday. "Together, we have transformed American consciousness as to what kind of nation we can become, and have taken this country a major step forward in the never-ending struggle for economic justice, social justice, racial justice and envir…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/bernie_sanders_drops_out_of_race

Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders Campaign Didn't Fail. It Energized Millions & Shifted U.S. Politics
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-09
In a new interview, world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky reflects on the significance of the Bernie Sanders campaign, calling it "an extraordinary success" that "completely shifted the arena of debate and discussion" in the United States.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/noam_chomsky_bernie_sanders_campaign

Naomi Klein: Sanders "Broke the Spell" of Neoliberalism as Trump Pushes Coronavirus Capitalism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-09
We talk to journalist and activist Naomi Klein about Bernie Sanders's historic presidential campaign as he suspends his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination, and about coronavirus capitalism

What we all need to learn now that Bernie Sanders's presidential bid is over
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-04-09
Bernie Sanders has withdrawn from the Democratic Party primary. This has prompted a fierce debate about what went wrong. While he clearly faced unfair disadvantages from the start, progressives must also accept that he made some unnecessary mistakes. And if we're going to win victories in the future, we must learn from them. | Unfair fr…
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2020/04/09/what-we-all-need-to-learn-now-that-bernie-sanderss-presidential-bid-is-over/

Bernie Sanders Suspends His Campaign: What Happened and What Now?
Sam Husseini | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-09
Once again, disenfranchised American voters are left without a candidate that represents their values, but instead of staying home or voting against those values, there is another option, writes Sam Husseini.
mintpressnews.com/bernie-sanders-suspends-campaign-what-happened-what-now/266470/

"Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way": COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black Americans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-09
We speak with family physician and epidemiologist Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones about how the coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on black Americans, who are disproportionately dying from the virus across the country as a result of entrenched racial inequality. Black Americans are more likely to have chronic health problems and less likely to have insurance. They also make up significant numbers of frontline workers that are still going to work amid the pandemic. Jones is the former president of the American Public Health Association. Her recent piece for Newsweek magazine is headlined "Coronavirus Disease Discri…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/camara_phyllis_jones_coronavirus_race_disparities

Why You Should Never Vote for Joe Biden
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-09
There's a video of Lawrence O'Donnell, spokesperson for MSNBC, saying in 2020 what he's paid to say, namely that electing a candidate with a platform you approve of is somehow in conflict with electing a candidate who can win. The logic of this is that most people are expected to vote for a candidate with …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/why-you-should-never-vote-for-joe-biden/

Telling the truth about coronavirus is resistance to Trump and authoritarianism
Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-09
Last week, Trump and Mitch McConnell both blamed Democrats and the impeachment trial for distracting the nation and aiding the spread of COVID-19. We know–the shamelessness of this accusation is infuriating. In light of this article, and the entire GOP response to COVID-19, the quote we've been coming back to in recent days is from …
peoplesworld.org/article/telling-the-truth-about-coronavirus-is-resistance-to-trump-and-authoritarianism/

Bernie Sanders ends US presidential bid
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-08
Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his US presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the likely Democratic Party nominee to take on Donald Trump in November. | Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on. t.co/MYc7kt2b16 |

"People Are Dying in the Streets": Ecuador Struggles to Cope with COVID-19 as Cases Skyrocket
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
The coronavirus pandemic is exhausting Ecuador's medical resources, with at least 220 dead and more than 4,000 cases. Ecuador is among the top three countries with the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the entire Latin American region. In recent days, images of dead bodies wrapped in plastic tarp left on the streets of the city of Guayaquil as families desperately try to bury loved ones have shocked the entire country and the world. Guayaquil is Ecuador's most populous city and the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. We speak with Denisse Herrera, the Ecuador correspondent for teleSUR.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/8/ecuador_coronavirus

Journalist on Wisconsin Election: Republicans Are Letting People Die in Order to Hang On to Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
Lines stretching city blocks, hours-long waits and polling officials in hazmat suits. That's the scene voters in Wisconsin encountered as they braved the polls Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite growing outcry about the risks to public health and safety that in-person voting would pose, on Monday the state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Governor Tony Evers's ruling to delay the election until June. At least 92 people in Wisconsin have died from exposure to COVID-19. In Milwaukee

"A Systematic Issue of Disparity": Black People in Louisiana Account for 70% of COVID-19 Deaths
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
Louisiana faces one of the worst outbreaks of the coronavirus in the United States. New data shows black people account for 70% of all the state's coronavirus deaths, though they comprise just 32% of the state's population. Louisiana also has the highest incarceration rate in the country, and more than 65% of the people in its jails and prisons are black. At least 28 people are infected, and 22 corrections staff have tested positive. State corrections officials are sending infected prisoners to the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Albert Woodfox: COVID-19 Offers Public a "Small Window" into What Prisoners Face in Solitary Confinement
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
As millions shelter in place around the world, we speak with Albert Woodfox, who served the longest time in solitary confinement of any prisoner in the United States. Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace, Woodfox was held in isolation for nearly 44 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. He was convicted of killing a guard in jail, but always maintained his innocence. He says he was targeted for co-founding the first Black Panther chapter in Angola. He was released in 2016 and is now 73 years old. His memoir is "Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solit…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/8/albert_woodfox_solitary_confinement

The Media's Loudest #MeToo Champions Are Ignoring Biden Sexual Assault Accuser Tara Reade
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-08
The silence from the media's loudest #MeToo champions has been deafening. There has been exactly zero coverage of sexual allegations against Joe Biden on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC or CBS. Likewise, The New York Times and USA Today and have failed to discuss it.
mintpressnews.com/media-metoo-champions-ignoring-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accuser-tara-reade/266439/

Open Letter to the "Sandernistas": Bernie Caves Again 2020
Bruce Lerro | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
History Repeats Itself, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce I wrote this article almost four years ago right after the Democratic primaries in 2016. I am reposting it because it demonstrates how, while history changes, the machinations of the Democratic Party are the same, or in this case, worse. What is not relevant in this …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/open-letter-to-the-sandernistas-bernie-caves-again-2020/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders & Fight for a Progressive Future
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-07
As millions hope to receive support as soon as possible from the massive coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress without adequate oversight mechanisms, we look at who will benefit from "extraordinary asymmetrical assistance" that went to corporations instead of working people. "Some of the people who need it the most are not getting it," says Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This contributes to a public health crisis in addition to an economic one." She also discusses plans for the 2020 election and a "progressive future" for the United States with a single-payer health system and a living wage.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/7/aoc_coronavirus_stimulus_corporate_slush_fund

Deaths of Inequality: AOC on Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-07
As COVID-19 deaths spike in African-American and immigrant communities, almost a third of New York City's infections are in Queens, one of the most diverse places in the world, and many in the hardest-hit neighborhoods are undocumented and working-class. We speak with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the neighborhoods at the epicenter of the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, about how the Trump administration's response to the pandemic is causing "deaths of incompetence," "deaths of science denial" and "deaths of inequality."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/7/aoc_coronavirus_queens_bronx

Amazon "Profiting from This Pandemic" as Warehouse Workers Walk Off Job to Demand Safer Conditions
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-07
Just a week "after Amazon fired": www.democracynow.org/2020/3/31/headlines/amazon_fires_organizer_of_staten_island_strike_action a worker who led a walkout, workers at the same Staten Island warehouse walked off the job again Monday to protest unsafe working conditions as online orders soar during the pandemic. We get an update from Angeles Solis, lead organizer at Make the Road New York, which helped organize the strike. Solis helps lead the group's Beyond Amazon coalition in New York City. If Amazon doesn't do more to protect workers, "they are not only profiting from this pandemic, but they're helping t…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/7/amazon_state_island_warehouse_workers_walkout

To Stop Bernie Sanders, WaPo Willing to Risk Americans' Lives
Pete Tucker | fair.org | 2020-04-06
There's little the Washington Post won't do to stop Bernie Sanders, including endanger American lives. | That was made clear with the March 17 Democratic primaries, which were held amid a rapidly worsening pandemic, and with enthusiastic support from…
fair.org/home/to-stop-bernie-sanders-wapo-willing-to-risk-americans-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-stop-bernie-sanders-wapo-willing-to-risk-americans-lives

"Leaving Us in Here to Die": Prisoners Plea for Release, Protection Amid Skyrocketing Infections
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-06
U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued an emergency order Friday calling for the release of vulnerable federal prisoners into home confinement amid the coronavirus crisis. This news comes as at least 16 states have also released prisoners. We look at the treatment of incarcerated people in New York state, where Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to grant anyone freedom despite at least 24 confirmed cases among state prisoners. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he'll release about 300 people from Rikers Island and other city jails, but advocates are calling for far more to be freed. We speak to…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/6/covid_19_incarceration

One Mask for Five 12-Hour Shifts: Harlem Hospital Nurses Demand Better Protection Amid Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-06
As New York state's death toll from coronavirus passes 4,000, nurses and medical workers on the frontlines in New York City are protesting for better protections. We go to a demonstration outside Harlem Hospital to speak with Sarah Dowd, a registered nurse who works in its medical/surgical unit and has been treating COVID-19-positive patients. She is a member of the New York State Nurses Association union. "This is not a time for people to be sitting on the sidelines," Dowd says. "We need to make big demands of the system."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/6/harlem_hospital_protest_nurses_new_york

NY Bishop Explains Why St John Divine Cathedral Is Working with Fundamentalist Group During Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-06
As millions of worshipers around the globe enter the month of April preparing to celebrate Holy Week, Passover and Ramadan in the age of coronavirus, Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan is set to open its doors to 400 beds for non-COVID-19 patients to make more space in the hospitals for those suffering from the coronavirus. But there's a catch: The city is partnering with the Christian fundamentalist group Samaritan's Purse, led by Franklin Graham, a virulently Islamophobic, anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ preacher. Last week, the group erected an emergency field hospital in Central Park to treat spillover…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/6/samaritans_purse_central_park_field_hospital

Amazon on strike: what workers need to know about their rights
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-03
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Kevin Gustafson, an organizer with Democracy at Work and host of the Sensible…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/03/amazon-strike-workers-rights/

Protect Immigrant Communities: Fear Mounts of Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. Border Camps, ICE Jails
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-03
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has joined thousands of medical professionals and immigration rights groups to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement release all prisoners from immigration jails as the coronavirus continues to spread. Meanwhile, immigration advocates are working to prepare crowded encampments of asylum seekers across the U.S.-Mexico border for a potentially catastrophic outbreak of COVID-19. Since the implementation of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy, tens of thousands of asylum seekers from regions like Central America and Africa have been stranded in Mexican bord…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/3/covid_us_mexico_border_immigration_jails

As Virus Spreads in Philippines, So Does Authoritarianism: Duterte Threatens Violence Amid Lockdown
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-03
In the Philippines, authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he's ordered soldiers to shoot to kill residents if they resist a strict lockdown on the island of Luzon. His order came after residents of Manila's Quezon City shanty town staged a protest, saying they've gone hungry without food promised when the lockdown began more than two weeks ago. The Philippines death toll is 136 with more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. As those numbers grow, nurses and doctors report a drastic lack of personal protective equipment. While the Philippines has seen a surge in cases, Indonesia is now reporting t…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/3/coronavirus_asia_philippines_rodrigo_duterte

How Taiwan Contained COVID-19: Early Action, Technology & Millions of Face Masks
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-03
Taiwan, despite being just 100 miles from mainland China with regular flights to and from Wuhan, has successfully staved off the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. The country has so far seen five deaths and just under 350 confirmed cases, and most schools and businesses remain open. How did Taiwan do it? "Aggressive action," says Dr. Jason Wang, the former project manager for Taiwan's National Health Insurance Reform Task-force. He is now the director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention and associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University. He speaks with us about Taiwan's strat…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/3/taiwan_coronavirus_response

"Our Bodies Are On the Line": NYC Nurses Demand Protective Gear as COVID-19 Death Toll Skyrockets
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-03
Nurses in California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada and Texas are protesting one of the nation's largest hospital chains for a "lack of preparedness" amid the coronavirus pandemic. They're calling on HCA Healthcare to provide optimal personal protective equipment, or PPE, for nurses and other staff. In New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, nurses and doctors at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx protested Thursday over the lack of PPE. Today another protest is underway in front of Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan calling for more PPE, better staffing and COVID-19 testing for front…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/3/nyc_frontline_medical_workers_ppe_protest

'The universe is collapsing'
Bernie Sanders | zcomm.org | 2020-03-27
Bernie Sanders mocks Republicans over coronavirus aid…
zcomm.org/zvideo/the-universe-is-collapsing/

[Comment] National UK programme of community health workers for COVID-19 response
Andy Haines, Enrique Falceto de Barros, Anita Berlin, David L Heymann, Matthew J Harris | thelancet.com | 2020-03-24
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic threatens to kill large numbers of people in the UK and to place unprecedented demands on the National Health Service (NHS). The case fatality rate is increased in older people and those with pre-existing disease and is reported to be about 20% in people with COVID-19 who are older than 80 years,1 although this does not take into account the under-reporting of mildly affected cases. There are about 8 ∑8 million people aged 70 years or older in the UK and many others with health conditions that increase their vulnerability to COVID-19.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30735-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Peace Action Supports Wyden-Klobuchar Bill to Protect Democracy and Ensure Safe Elections
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-03-20
Statement of Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action, on the introduction of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act (NDEBA) by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). This bill would help ensure that elections can take place in a safe and secure way throughout the pandemic and beyond. March 19, 2020 Peace Action …
peaceaction.org/2020/03/20/peace-action-supports-wyden-klobuchar-bill-to-protect-democracy-and-ensure-safe-elections/

The Dem Primary is Over, and We Need Bernie Sanders to Lead on Health Care From the Senate
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-19
On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Illinois primary, in an elementary school where hushed whispers and fearful glances had replaced the normal din of an election day. There was no one standing just outside the perimeter hustling me to vote for this …
truthdig.com/articles/the-dem-primary-is-over-and-we-need-bernie-sanders-to-lead-on-health-care-from-the-senate/

These Are the 51 GOP Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to Protect Americans
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-19
Republican senators on Wednesday teamed up to kill an amendment introduced by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that would have expanded paid sick leave to millions of U.S. workers left out of a bipartisan coronavirus relief package. Every Republican present for the vote, 51 in total, voted against the amendment while every Senate Democrat voted in favor. …
truthdig.com/articles/these-are-the-51-gop-senators-who-just-voted-against-expanding-paid-sick-leave-to-protect-americans/

Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-03-13
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[Correspondence] COVID-19, ECMO, and lymphopenia: a word of caution
Brandon Michael Henry | thelancet.com | 2020-03-13
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can serve as life-saving rescue therapy for refractory respiratory failure in the setting of acute respiratory distress syndrome, such as that induced by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the study by Yang and colleagues,1 who compared clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with severe COVID-19, five (83%) of six patients receiving ECMO died. Although this sample was small, and specific baseline characteristics and disease courses were almost unknown, it raises concerns about potential harms of ECMO therapy for COVID-19.
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30119-3/fulltext?rss=yes

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