Tag: COVID-19
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Get off Twitter and get into the (online) streets
With the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 set to expire next month, Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey Thill, members of the People’s CDC, write about the role Twitter has played during the pandemic among public health and disability justice activists, and they argue in this piece for moving beyond the platform’s limitations to reclaim the…
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Fatal abstractions
There are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.
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Revenge of the Essential Worker: What’s Next for Labor in 2022?
With the large turnout and organizing energy at the Labor Notes conference last weekend, the Tempest Collective hosts a public discussion to assess the conference and talk about the challenges and opportunities facing the labor movement.
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Where is the Left on pandemic politics?
Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward.
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Striking back! Labor strategy in the pandemic
This is a lightly edited transcript of the panel on labor struggle and strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Tempest Collective. It features Elizabeth Lalasz, Kirstin Roberts, Kim Moody, and Joe Burns, and is chaired by Paul KD.
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This isn’t normal
An upcoming Tempest Collective event on the role of capitalism in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Strike back! Labor strategy in the pandemic
An announcement for a Tempest Collective hosted event, January 30, focused on labor strategy in the pandemic.
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Chicago teachers fight for their safety – and ours
Tempest’s Elizabeth Lalasz interviews rank and file members of the Chicago Teachers Union about their latest showdown with Mayor Lori Lightfoot amidst the Omicron variant.
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Double fault: Novak Djokovic vs. Australia
Dave Kellaway writes about the ongoing situation involving professional tennis player Novak Djokovic’s legal battle with the Australian government over his vaccination status.