Saturday, April 25, 2020
Shameful
Racial injustice in the agricultural industry is accentuated by the public health emergency, which is not surprising given that 99% of farm workers are Latino. Shameful as this state-sponsored, guest worker slavery is in terms of human rights in Washington, the fact this bigotry is allowed to threaten food security is insane.
United Farm Workers have filed suit against Washington State Department of Health and the Department of Labor and Industries.
United Farm Workers have filed suit against Washington State Department of Health and the Department of Labor and Industries.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Privatizing the Pandemic
President Trump has taken a page from former President Bush in how to turn public misfortune into private profit; Trump from the COVID pandemic, Bush from the war in Iraq. Diverting urgent testing kits (intended for hospitals) from FEMA to commercial middlemen--in order to resell them to hospitals--illustrates the rationalization of theft that underpins the Republican party.
Sunday, April 05, 2020
Pathetic
Ten years ago, Wall Street investment bank CEOs gave themselves ten million dollar bonuses from the taxpayer-funded bailout. Today, facing financial ruin from the pandemic, these taxpayers are offered a meager $1200 by Congress.
