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READ MORELeaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?
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READ MOREOnly 7 percent of black men would be deemed low-risk enough to get out using the federal prison system’s risk assessment tool, according to an analysis.
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READ MOREMike Davis Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:23 PM 1. from Suzie WeissmanWorkers protested at GE’s Lynn, Massachusetts aviation facility held a silent protest, standing six feet apart. Union members at the company’s Boston headquarters also marched six feet apart, calling on the company to use its factories to help the country close its ventilator […]
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READ MOREPosted by Mike Davis Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 7:20 PM New England Journal of MedicineMarch 27, 2020DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2005953 Kathleen R. Page, M.D., Maya Venkataramani, M.D., Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., and Sarah Polk, M.D., M.H.S. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp2005953 Perspective In 2019, as the “public charge” rule made its way through the U.S. court system, many low-income immigrant parents of American […]
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READ MOREApplause for Portugal, a country currently governed by a coalition of the left parties, led by the Socialists. What a difference a Left can make. (Mike Davis comment) Submitted by Roisin Davis Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 4:36 PM https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-portugal/portugal-to-treat-migrants-as-residents-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUKKBN21F0MC LISBON (Reuters) – All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents […]
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READ MOREForwarded article from Boston Globe | Mar. 27, 2020 Submitted by JoAnn Wypijewski, Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:31 PM Please send to your networks! Massachusetts disaster: The people who run jails, prisons and other locked facilities have been warned for weeks to take action. Now a coronavirus disaster is happening in Bridgewater, MA inside the […]
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READ MOREBy Anthony Cristofani, originally appeared in magazine “Turning the Tide” https://antiracist.org/ Anthony Cristofani, Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:06 AM I moved to Italy two months ago because I thought it would be a more reasonable government under which to live and work for change. After the COVID-19 outbreak friends and family started writing and calling […]
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READ MOREMike Davis Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:11 PM Yesterday two Democratic House committee chairs, Carolyn Maloney (NY) and Gerry Connolly (VA) warned: ‘Based on a number of briefings and warnings this week about a critical fall-off in mail across the country, it has become clear that the Postal Service will not survive the summer […]
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READ MOREScientists are still determining how long the virus can survive on various types of substances and under different environmental conditions. There is some, not-yet-peer-reviewed data that the COVID-19 virus can survive in the air, but … In other words, it has not been proven that individuals become infected by way of airborne viral transmission. Link posted by […]
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READ MOREAirborne transmission not yet confirmed to be sole route of COVID-19 infection Mark Kleiman, Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:30 PM Mike,Thank you for the close attention you are paying to all of this. I agree completely that oral-fecal transmission may turn out to be a huge danger for billions. Mi companera worked in Haiti […]
