coronavirus
Jewish Labor Committee remembers coronavirus dead on traditional mourning day
July 29, 2020A vow, in the words of famed union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones: “Mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
Read moreNEA chief: Trump’s back-to-school command endangers kids, parents, teachers
July 29, 2020“We are carefully working with the school boards, the health inspectors, the parents and the kids” to determine what’s best to do when schools are supposed to start again in late August.
Read more150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have?
July 28, 2020We have a collective grief to deal with in our land, yet from our highest tribunes all we hear is, “This will be over sooner than you know it, get back to work."
Read moreSan Quentin vigil says incarceration has become a death sentence
July 27, 2020The coronavirus infection spread rapidly through San Quentin. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR], as of the date of the vigil, there were 928 active cases and eleven prisoners had died.
Read moreDr. Fauci: U.S. closed only half the country to battle the coronavirus
July 27, 2020WASHINGTON—The U.S. “shut down about 50% of the country” and is now paying the price in a rebound of daily coronavirus cases, the nation’s top expert on such diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says. And in that...
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