Exclusion from vaccine eligibility is emblematic of how farmworkers, many of them migrants, are treated in general.
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.
Data shows that 54 percent of those who received their vaccines at a community health center were people of color.
Rhetoric about children “falling behind” shows a desire to maintain a broken status quo, not a desire for true equity.
We must push back against our state leaders as they abandon life-saving protections against COVID-19.
At the heart of today’s housing crisis is a capitalist economy built on shadowy finances and esoteric debt.
The demand for oxygen in Mexico has grown by 700 percent over the past month, and desperate people are being exploited.
We must reimagine health and healing in a way that doesn’t label our oppressors “humanitarians.”
Shipments of vaccine are spoiling because Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” distribution process was smoke and mirrors.
Despite the introduction of mass testing, people in Illinois prisons and jails are still contracting COVID-19.
Tenants are organizing to hold widescale coordinated direct actions like rent strikes to avert the looming crisis.