We are “reopening” because in these United States, the people have always come a distant second to profit.
Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 hit the United States, it’s been at the top of every news outlet’s headlines. However, the disparate impact and deep injustices that the crisis has wrought often go unmentioned. So do the underlying oppressive systems that allowed the pandemic to reach the magnitude that it has. Truthout is taking on these injustices with a broad-ranging series, “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19,” which addresses how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice. Through investigative reporting and dynamic analysis, we’ll paint a real picture of this pandemic’s implications — and sketch a bold new image of what a post-pandemic world could look like. In this series, journalists, activists, organizers and thinkers, many of whom have been brutally impacted by the crisis themselves, will share stories and insights that point the way toward a transformed future.
The pandemic has provided a convenient excuse for governments pandering to domestic bigotry and isolationist tendencies.
Calls for a general strike are growing as millions of people consider going back to work after months of quarantine.
The U.S. is using the pandemic as a pretext to further shut down asylum, while spreading the virus through deportations.
Congress could declare treatment development is a response to a national emergency and can’t be subject to patents.
We must not let this become another body count like all the others this nation has grown far too accustomed to ignoring.
Given their greed, ineptitude and callousness, we should reconsider how essential CEOs and our “leaders” really are.
There have been over 100 cases of deported migrants testing positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in their countries.
Trump’s team has decided to lock down the country in a way that even the most nativist policies of the 1920s never did.
Cuba serves as a point of reference for what is possible — critical even — for our collective survival.