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Amid Pandemic, Homeless New Yorkers Demand Refuge in Vacant Apartments, Hotels
Tens of thousands of homeless people in New York City have been left with no way to shelter in place.
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How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague
Kelly Hayes talks with Shane Burley about organizing for survival and the analysis of state power we need right now.
![U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr speaks during the Department of Justice National Opioid Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1205433437-400x300.jpg)
DOJ Is Using COVID-19 Crisis to Push for Expansive Emergency Powers
The Department of Justice is asking Congress for sweeping emergency powers including the suspension of habeas corpus.
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Punitive Measures Worsen the Homelessness Crisis. We Must Guarantee Housing.
Fortunately, many cities are adopting strategies that are geared toward helping people over judging them.
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Our Responses to COVID-19 Must Center Disability Justice
Here’s how we can turn these unprecedented and slapdash coronavirus measures into actual disability justice.
![Customers line up to shop at a Costco store in Brooklyn as the COVID-19 outbreak continues on March 19, 2020, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0320-covid-19-costco--400x300.jpg)
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis of Capitalism
COVID-19 is another blow to the house of cards that is the existence of the marginalized.
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US Economic Sanctions Exacerbate Toll of Coronavirus in Iran
Sanctions are preventing Iranians from importing necessary medicine and medical equipment.
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Racist Attacks and Border Militarization Intensify as Coronavirus Spreads
We are in the grip of a social panic where people are channeling their fears into racist and anti-immigrant attacks.
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Mexican Women Plan Historic Strike Against Femicides
Millions of people are being called to join the country’s first all-women labor strike.
![Rabbi Brant Rosen and interfaith colleagues participate in a civil disobedience action at the San Diego - Tijuana border, December 10, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0228-brant-rosen-400x300.jpg)
Fighting Anti-Semitism: From Terror to Solidarity and Action
Kelly Hayes talks with Brant Rosen in Truthout's podcast “Movement Memos.”