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News & Views | 4/1/20

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Iranians wait to get prescription drugs at the state-run "13 Aban" pharmacy in Tehran on Feb. 19, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Unsatisfied with a global pandemic and an economic collapse, Trump wants to add a major war into the mix."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
While countries in Europe and Asia spent the first several weeks of the year preparing their healthcare systems and populations for the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration spent that same time sending dozens of medical shipments overseas.


Hahnemann Hospital sits abandoned while the medical community struggles to find the beds needed as COVID-19 cases rise in Philadelphia.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"I think he's looking at this as a business transaction rather than providing an imminent and important aid to the city and our residents."


Red sign hanging at the glass door of a shop saying "Closed due to coronavirus." (Photo: Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is absolutely imperative that the millions of Americans who are eligible for unemployment benefits receive every dollar to which they are entitled as quickly as possible."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Trump administration is throwing up an unnecessary barrier that will make it harder for seniors, people with disabilities, and veterans to get the payments they desperately need."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Nurses at 15 hospitals across the country on Wednesday are protesting what they say is their hospital system's dangerous lack of protections for healthcare workers—demanding their employers provide protective equipment to help them safely fight the coronavirus pandemic.


A sign marks the location of a polling place on August 14, 2018 in Janesville, Wisconsin.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"People should not be forced to put their lives on the line to vote."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"How can it be that we spend 18% of our GDP on healthcare but still lack the beds, masks, ventilators, gowns, gloves, and test kits we need to adequately respond to this crisis?" asked Sen. Bernie Sanders.


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

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
In a letter to the Treasury Secretary Wednesday, Flight Attendant Union International President Sara Nelson and other labor leaders demanded the federal government ensure workers in the airline industry be protected.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
New polling out Wednesday shows that most of the country believes the U.S. political system works only for the wealthy and elite rather than for working people.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This isn't just an outrageous decision, but it's also a deadly one."

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as they participate in a Fox News Virtual Town Hall with Anchor Bill Hemmer, in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the United States, with New York's case count doubling every three days according to governor Andrew Cuomo. (Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

by Timothy Karr
"This is a life or death issue."


A health worker takes the temperature of a woman amid concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus at an entrance of the Pyongchon District People's Hospital in Pyongyang on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Kim Won Jin / AFP via Getty Images)

by Christine Ahn, Kevin Martin
The urgency of the situation calls for drastic changes to business as usual. We can turn the COVID-19 crisis into a critical opportunity for international cooperation on the Korean Peninsula by reallocating resources toward protecting human health and reviving the stalled diplomacy between the US...


The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping the world and what comes out on the other side may be something completely new when it comes to the global order. (Photo: CodePink)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
The United States is failing miserably to provide a good example of how to successfully combat COVID-19, but other nations are offering better models of what can be done and should be done.


Nurses at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center hold a vigil in Los Angeles on March 30, 2020, during the novel coronavirus outbreak. - The vigil was held to celebrate the steps that have been taken at UCLA Ronald Regan Medical Center in protecting nurses' health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic and to call for further action from the federal government. (Photo: Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images)

by Amy Silverman
Instead of saying we're heroes, we need people and organizations to stand up and protest the unsafe working conditions in healthcare facilities all across the country.


Fearless Girl Statue by the New York Stock Exchange building is seen at the Financial District in New York City, United States on March 29, 2020. New York is ranked as one of the largest International Financial Centres ("IFC") in the world, now seen so quiet due the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Carl Rhodes
The COVID-19 crisis clearly shows that the neoliberal experiment has failed to prepare the world for crisis. But, it demonstrates that the experiment is not any good for normal times either.


A doctor checks the body temperature of a man returning from Iran at a quarantine zone to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan on February 25, 2020. (Photo: Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mari Margil
A disruption—such as a global pandemic—can provide a window of opportunity to change our habits and make positive change.

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