Roberta Wood
LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood
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Opinion
It’s time to listen to Donald Trump
October 1, 2020Trump told us plainly what he’s going to do. Unlike the TV debate, this election will not be a spectator sport.
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U.S.
Latino groups, AFL-CIO hail Supreme Court’s pro-DACA decision
June 19, 2020“Trump’s 2017 decision to end DACA was cruel and wrong, and that injustice now has been undone—but only temporarily."
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U.S.
Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families
May 20, 2020If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the CDC, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez still be alive today?
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Opinion
The reason Smithfield decided to slaughter workers along with the hogs
May 8, 2020Coronavirus is riding the waves of the capitalist economy. It’s a cruel, cold-blooded system that hurls human bodies into the maw of a ravenous virus.
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Labor
Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
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U.S.
They’re putting our lives at risk to build stadiums and condos?
April 3, 2020While the CEOs shelter safe and sound in their homes, piling up their profits, the workers are on the construction sites risking sickness and death at the hands of the coronavirus.
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Opinion
For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything
March 25, 2020
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U.S.
Labor-backed candidate Tony Pecinovsky scores 48 percent in St. Louis race
March 15, 2019One voter remarked, "He's Communist, but who cares? He represents us! That’s the kind of person we need for alderman!”
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