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Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Addressing how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice.
![Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/2020_0428-covid-1200x675.jpg)
![Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, center, applauds with other guests as President Trump addresses the crowd during the Opportunity Now summit at Central Piedmont Community College on February 7, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0602-trump-ben-carson-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Anti-Blackness Is Overt in Protest Response and Covert in Policymaking
Trump's calls for violence against protesters reflect the anti-Black economic policies he has pursued since 2016.
![Woman wearing facemask, concerned behind shadows of blinds](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0602-covid-abuse--400x300.jpg)
To Become Safer Amid Pandemic We Must Explore Our Responses to Abuse More Deeply
Safety planning in close quarters with those who cause harm requires thinking about how to be, if not safe, then safer.
![Protesters demonstrate over the death of George Floyd, by a Minneapolis police officer, at a rally on May 30, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0601-washington-dc-march-400x300.jpg)
This Is What a Revolution Looks Like
We are at a fulcrum moment as a society. We must back the movement for justice and resist authoritarian pushback.
![After making three passes by the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in their cars, some of the protesters walk back toward the hospital to speak to the media in Boston on May 17, 2020. People associated with Massachusetts Acting for Change Together (MassACT) staged a car caravan demonstration to protest the treatment of those in psychiatric hospitals and other group settings.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0601-covid-psychiatric-hospitals-400x300.jpg)
Amid COVID, People Involuntarily Confined in Psych Hospitals Must Be Released
COVID-19 is highlighting the dangerous conditions inside psychiatric hospitals.
![Demonstrators with #Asians4BlackLives take part in a Martin Luther King Day march on January 16, 2017, in Seattle, Washington.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0529-asians4blacklives-400x300.jpg)
The Asian American Reply to Pandemic-Era Racism Must Be Cross-Racial Solidarity
Let’s organize toward a new future dedicated to dismantling systemic oppression and striving for collective liberation.
![Activists break into the house of Kaotar Dee, to get her and her possessions back into her home of 21 years and for her to make a barricaded stand after being locked out by landlords during the coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. The city has recently passed the right for tenants to sue landlords who violate restrictions that Los Angeles has placed on evicting renters during the coronavirus crisis.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1216202456-400x300.jpg)
Without Relief, Millions of Tenants Are Ready for a Rent Strike Revolution
Decades of growing inequality, coupled with a pandemic, have left millions of tenants no choice but to rent strike.
![A sheriff with a COVID-19 badge stands in front of prison bars](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0529-sheriff-covid--400x300.jpg)
California Sheriff Refuses to Release People From Jail as COVID Outbreak Rages
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said he would not enforce public health orders meant to prevent spread of COVID-19.
![Woman leans through dark doorway with shadow behind her](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0528-domestic-abuse-s-400x300.jpg)
Ending the Stay-at-Home Order Won’t End Violence Against Women and Girls
Even before the pandemic, gender-based violence was one of the most widespread and persistent human rights abuses.
![Donald Trump at Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0527-donald-trump2-400x300.jpg)
As US Death Count Nears 100,000, Trump Indulges His Ego and Deflects Blame
Trump’s Tuesday gibberish eruption is a feature, not a bug, of his entire presidency.
![White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett speaks to members of the press in front of the West Wing of the White House, May 22, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0526-kevin-hassett--400x300.jpg)
Trump Adviser Says “Human Capital Stock” Should Get Back to Work
To them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.