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April 15, 2020 Confluence

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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April 14, 2020 Confluence

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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April 8, 2020 Confluence

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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March 5, 2020 Confluence

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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February 28, 2020 Confluence

SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL SERIES. Second-Class Citizen (Part One: Speaking Up—From Abigail Adams to Alice Paul)

Reading Time: 7 minutes By: Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. For thousands of years of patriarchal

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February 27, 2020 Confluence

103 trailblazing women

Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy birthday Chelsea Clinton! Here’s what she and Hillary hope readers take away from their new book profiling 103 trailblazing women.

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February 18, 2020 Confluence

This is the moment. It’s here. We’re in the catastrophe.

Reading Time: 8 minutes It is always darkest before the dawn, and there is more darkness to come. This post is not intended to spread fear. It is intended to spread awareness.

We are better able to face risk when we understand what’s out there. There are some very, very deep vulnerabilities in the US. Recognizing that they exist will help us to navigate the shock when the unbelievable hits. And it will.

The way out is together.

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February 13, 2020 Confluence

WaPo: Trump’s words, bullied kids, scarred schools

Reading Time: 11 minutes Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.

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February 12, 2020 Confluence

Huffpo: White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says

Reading Time: 3 minutes Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.

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February 11, 2020 Confluence

WaPo: Trump’s latest rally stunts are designed to get you to surrender

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the end, many of President Trump’s ugliest degradations — the nonstop lying, the constant efforts to undermine faith in our political system, the relentless delegitimization of the opposition — often seem to converge in some sense on a single, overarching goal:

To get you to give up.