Vox: Why white men in America are refusing to wear masks
Reading Time: 9 minutes Since the pandemic began, the issue of wearing masks has further exposed America’s racial and gender prejudices.
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Guest Editorial: This is not how you create a stronger country
Reading Time: 3 minutes By: Vanessa Burnett – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. 🐄🐖 One of 1,000 angles on Trump’s
Read MoreJanitors Fight for Justice During the COVID-19 Pandemic | NowThis
Reading Time: < 1 minute These women are among the 2.4 million janitors working on the front lines of COVID-19 in the U.S. — and they say cleaners like them are underpaid, undervalued, and lack proper protection. In partnership with Times Up.
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Vox: “I did not sign up for the military. I signed up for Walmart.”
Reading Time: 6 minutes As the virus has spread and workers have begun speaking out, grocery companies have been taking some steps to protect employees. Walmart announced on April 3 that, beginning the following day, it would limit store occupancy to five customers per 1,000 feet, or about 20 percent of normal. When a Walmart employee tests positive for Covid, “we have processes in place to inform associates within the impacted store,” Rebecca Thomason, senior manager of corporate communications at the company, told Vox.
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Trae Crowder: A dispatch from isolation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Yeah, we know it’s a month old, but
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SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN (Part Two: Reversals & Revelations)
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. The feminist professor and author Mary
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RACE FORWARD’S STATEMENT ON DISPROPORTIONATE COVID-19 CASES AND DEATHS IN BLACK AND LATINX COMMUNITIES: IT’S TIME TO LEAD WITH RACIAL EQUITY
Reading Time: 2 minutes People of color are more likely to be working in “essential” jobs, and therefore are at much greater risk of exposure to COVID-19. Health inequities, seen in preexisting conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, asthma, lack of access to quality health care, and underemployment are all factors that increase COVID-19 complications in patients of color. Coronavirus kills, and structural racism is its accomplice.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Inequality in Coronavirus Pandemic | NowThis
Reading Time: < 1 minute In US news and current events today, Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez discussed with Ady Barkan how global pandemics and the current COVID-19 virus is highlighting all of the inequalities that the poor communities and vulnerable are subjected to. Here’s why AOC is fighting for radical change against systematic racism and inequality amongst the working class.
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Huffpo: It’s Time For A Revolution In At-Home Abortion
Reading Time: 5 minutes The callers wanted to know how to end their pregnancies without going outside. Many were afraid to travel for fear of contracting the coronavirus, which spreads through contact with others. Some didn’t have the financial resources to make an arduous, often multi-day trip to an abortion clinic. Others were stuck in states where abortions were temporarily halted by Republican leaders exploiting the crisis to erode access.
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Editorial: I am profoundly bored and painfully tired of conversations about fighting the patriarchy
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am profoundly bored and painfully tired of conversations about fighting the patriarchy when we can’t get behind other women who want to lead and are qualified to do so. Lip service isn’t going to break anything and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
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