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Front Line Appreciation Group is Keeping Restaurants in Business & Feeding Hospital Workers
But how long can relief efforts last?
But how long can relief efforts last?
Remembering Donald Paneth, Maverick Journalist
Donald Paneth’s long, winding odyssey in journalism began in 1944 when he went to work as a clerk on…
NYC Nurse: We’re Fighting COVID, Budget Cuts & ‘Murderous Racial Inequalities’
Sean Petty is a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx and the southern regional…
Open Letter Calls for Bold Steps to Address Climate Change & COVID Devastation
Given the dire threat global warming presents to our city and its communities, in addition to the threat posed by coronavirus, we are publishing this letter to New York’s leaders, signed by 132 organizations, in full here.
Good Riddance to Samaritan’s Purse, the Hateful Virus that Infected Central Park
On April 5, I took part in a peaceful protest. The New York police tackled me and forced my…
Day Laborers Are Being Left Behind
Undocumented day laborers in Princeton, NJ are organizing relief efforts and pressuring Gov. Phil Murphy to take action. Across…
Com’on People, Pick Up Your PPE Trash
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the United States. and everyone now being encouraged (if not ordered) to cover…
In Pandemic-Hit Service Industry, Union Staff at Ellen’s Stardust Diner Show a Way Forward
As the pandemic spread and New York City became the global epicenter of the coronavirus, the restaurant industry was…
As Virus Spreads in Nursing Homes, Gov. Cuomo’s Big Donors Are Immune from Liability
Corpses left in the hallway of a nursing home in East New York. A whopping 55 deaths at another…
COVID-19 Hits NYC’s Black and Brown Working Class the Hardest
In the month since Gov. Andrew Cuomo instituted a stay-at-home order, New York City has taken on a different…
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