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Covid-19 network demands Gov. Pritzker Issue Emergency Order to Stop All Pharmacy Closings

People in the Pilsen community in Chicago protest the closing of the local CVS pharmacy. CVS stores are especially sparse in black, brown, and less affluent neighborhoods.

Communities fight for THEIR Covid Relief Dollars

Editor’s Note: Below are voices from the fight going on in cities and states across the country for where the $1.9 trillion Covid Relief...

Chicago Public Schools: Give Us the Best COVID Safety!

Antonio, an 11-year-old Chicago Public School student reports his personal story of what happened inside his school during the COVID pandemic, what it felt like to him and a common-sense call to action that is needed today to save lives.

It’s our money! Demand COVID relief funds are spent where we want

Attention Justice Warriors! The recent COVID-19 relief package (America Rescue Plan 2021) signed into law in March of this year offers opportunities for those on...

Covid-19: Nurse decries lack of inmate care at privatized Florida prison

Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed a nurse who wishes to remain anonymous who worked for the Florida Department of Corrections before the...

Covid relief for workers or handout to corporations?

As Covid-19 continues to ravage the country, with the highest death count ever, overwhelming the healthcare system, destroying jobs and the families dependent on...

Remembering Joliet nurses’ Covid strike

Editor’s note: On July 18, a 34-year-old healthcare worker named Pat Meade interviewed with Radio Free Labor about her ongoing strike as a member...

Covid-19 kills people in prisons

Paris Thomas was a vibrant teenager, but at the age of 14 he started dropping his pencil, comb, and food. He started to struggle in school with his studies. ...

COVID19 Rent Strike for Universal Right to Housing

As U.S. deaths from COVID19 escalate past 107,000 and unemployment climbs above 43 million, people are asking why our government is not doing more to ...

Will Covid vaccine be free? Federal officials won’t commit

During a Senate hearing on coronavirus measures May 12, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put U.S. health officials on the spot about whether a Covid-19 vaccine ...

COVID-19: Essential workers fight for their lives

McDonald's workers went on a one-day strike in 20 cities in May, over inadequate Covid-19 protections. Scores of McDonald's workers have Covid-19 and ...

Navajo Nation: fighting Covid-19 without water

The coronavirus’s impact on the Navajo Nation has pushed the tribe’s public health system to its limits. Decades of negligence and billions of dollars ...

Stop Silencing Doctors: A Covid Clinician Manifesto

I’ve heard about the firing of Dr. Ming Lin in WA state, physician and ER doctor . . . for speaking out about the complete lack of PPE and protection for front line staff…

Covid-19 ‘exposes US racism in a stark new way’

The Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately hitting communities that have historically suffered from racism and unequal treatment, including African Americans, ...

Writer’s grandson among hundreds in Cook County Jail who have Covid-19

This story is about the experience of the author’s 21-year-old grandson, Zachary Thomas, who has been detained since mid-March in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, now ...

Coronavirus: For-profit healthcare threatens lives

Now is the time for Medicare for All. On top of being threatened with illness, people who are sickened by coronavirus Covid-19 and don’t have health insurance or ...