Tag: pandemic
Amazon Workers Hold Nationwide Strikes As COVID-19 Sweeps Warehouses
Fired Amazon employee Chris Smalls says workers will protest until they feel protected, while Amazon-owned Whole Foods is ranking stores where employees are most likely to unionize. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery…
Apple And Google Are Going To Track You (Even More) To Monitor COVID-19 Spread
Big tech volunteers to create platforms that facilitate digital contact tracing, but how will they protect private health data? Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
A Just Reopening Prioritizes People Over Profits
As Trump’s “reopening” endangers lives, Democrats must advance policy that gives working people something to fight for, argues In These Times’ Sarah Lazare. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Chase Producer: Genevieve Montinar…
Largest Public Utility To Outsource Hundreds Of Jobs Amid Covid-19
Despite Trump’s ‘America First’ policy, the Tennessee Valley Authority is outsourcing hundreds of federal jobs overseas. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Amazon VP Quits In Support Of Fired Whistleblowers
Senior Amazon engineer Tim Bray said the firings were evidence of “a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.” We get a response from Chris Smalls, one of those fired workers. Shortly after recording,…
Third Parties Sue For Ballot Access During COVID-19 Pandemic
Third parties are fighting for survival during the coronavirus pandemic. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational…
Police Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply
Professor Lester Spence argues America is facing two pandemics: COVID-19 and political policing. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes…
The Black Man Lab In Atlanta Is Providing A Reprieve For Men
Atlanta’s Black Man Lab is a forum where Black men can speak frankly and honestly address their concerns, even in the middle of a pandemic. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
What’s Behind Brazil’s COVID-19 Disaster?
Indigenous, poor, and working-class communities in Brazil are all under threat from COVID-19. One man is largely to blame for the country’s pandemic disaster: President Jair Bolsonaro, who has just tested positive for the virus….
Majority Black Prison Populations In Maryland See Disproportionate COVID-19 Spikes
Racial disparities in Maryland prisons are affecting COVID-19’s spread, with majority white populations receiving protective equipment even as Jessup institutions with majority Black populations struggle to get supplies. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional…
COVID-19 surges in Florida after data whistleblower fired
“Somebody needs to put a muzzle on [Trump] before he gets another 100,000 people killed. The United States does not have this under control.” Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Chronic school absences on the rise in 40 states, study finds
Chronic absences in U.S. schools have nearly doubled compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to a recent Stanford University study. Professor Thomas Dee, who authored the study, joins CBS News to discuss possible causes behind the…
So, now what?: TRNN’s Post-Inauguration Livestream
Donald Trump is leaving office as the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose control of the House, Senate, and White House in a single term. But the damage Trump and his administration have done…
We are all we’ve got: Why mutual aid is more critical than ever
We already knew Congress’s priorities are bailing out corporations and serving the rich, but this latest COVID-19 relief package is beyond laughable. It is abundantly clear: The calvary is not coming; we are on our…
The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix
The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights deep racial inequities in wages, health, and vaccination rates—but it’s a century of racist public policy that laid the foundation for these disparities. Dr. Lawrence Brown, author…
The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” we get an inside and outside view of the ongoing, slow-moving disaster happening in Maryland prisons, which have failed to adequately protect inmates, guards, and the surrounding communities…
Worker ownership can save businesses and protect employees
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for workers and small businesses alike. As reopening plans pit employee safety against economic viability for struggling businesses, can the worker co-op model provide a pathway for a just…
Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers
Amazon is intensifying the anti-union campaign at its Bessemer, Alabama, plant, where workers are currently voting to unionize. On Feb. 20, Amazon workers and their allies rallied in cities across the country to demand Amazon…
Black mass incarceration in the so-called Free State
Until recently, the horrifyingly unjust reality of America’s mass incarceration system has not been a central concern in popular political discourse. In the past few years, however, more people have learned about the brutality and…
Is freedom possible in the digital era?
A livestream panel discussion and Q & A co-produced by TRNN and Project Censored, which we will host from 8-9:30 pm EST on Wednesday, April 28. The utopian dream that digital technologies would make us…
Can democracy exist in the digital era?
From viral police brutality videos shot by citizen journalists to whisper networks and remote organizing during the pandemic, digital technologies have empowered people around the world to advance their struggles for justice, accountability, democracy, and…
