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** Interview: Amazon worker battles billionaire Bezos ([link removed] )
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Chris Smalls is a former Amazon worker who was fired for organizing a March 30 walkout at the JFK8 Amazon facility in Staten Island, N.Y. Bosses refused to close the facility despite confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the workers. In the aftermath of Smalls’ wrongful termination, a leaked memo from . . .
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** Rosemary Neidenberg: a long and valued life ([link removed] )
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Rosemary Neidenberg had reached the age of 99 before she died on March 29. But losing her then was still too soon and too sad for all her comrades, family and friends. Rosie was a treasure, a loving hug, an encyclopedia of past memories. She was beautiful in every way, . . .
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** People die as capitalists profit from pandemic crisis ([link removed] )
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By Lucy Cruz April 3 — One month after initial reports broke on the first confirmed COVID-19 case in New York City, we are in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis. As of today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 239,279 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and . . .
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** Migrants in detention in Texas face COVID-19 ([link removed] )
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Austin, Texas Migrants being held in detention in Texas have been facing abhorrent sanitary conditions in the detention facilities long before the coronavirus pandemic began. Now that the virus is here, and threatens to infect such a vulnerable and captive population at higher rates than the general population, many migrants . . .
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** Prisoners resist execution by virus ([link removed] )
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On a good day, most of the 5,000 prisons and jails in the U.S. are filthy hellholes. Medical care is seriously lacking and can be costly. Racism is ingrained in these institutions, and violence is often the order of the day. Right now, prisoners are terrified that as the COVID-19 . . .
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** Texas ban seeks to overturn legal abortion ([link removed] )
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April 7 — The overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. are doing everything in their power to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, which is both a public health crisis and an economic disaster of worldwide proportions. But women of childbearing age, 15 to 44, in six conservative states led by . . .
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