Poverty

Protesters Charged With Terrorism in Atlanta

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Police Brutality, Political Corruption, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

News by People’s Dispatch, March 18, 2023 At least 23 protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism amid a week of action against the construction of “Cop City” in Atlanta, a proposed $90 million police training complex. Atlanta police detained 35 people and arrested 23 on the night of March 5, they claim, for vandalism against the Cop City construction[…]

Report from New Orleans: Government does nothing for the poor

September 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, September 2, 2021 Sept. 1 — Gavrielle Gemma, union and political organizer since the 1970s and now working with the New Orleans-based Workers Voice Socialist Movement, called Workers World to report on the situation there, post-Hurricane Ida. Gemma is now living in a modest single-family home in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans,[…]

Biden Breaks His Promises

May 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, US Politics, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 27, 2021 Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office. “If the Republicans are seen as the only enemy then we have already lost.” Joe Biden has yet to make good on any campaign promise he made to voters.[…]

Life After COVID, As the U.S. Competes with China

April 18, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Poverty, The War at Home

By Eve Ottenberg, published on CounterPunch, April 16, 2021 Who can doubt that if Trump had won reelection, the numbers of people vaccinated against covid would be in the thousands, instead of Biden’s nearly 100 million? Who can doubt that the daily death rate would stand above 3000, as MAGA morons went about their business maskless and as it was[…]

On the Shore Facing a Tidal Wave: Reflections of a Physician

March 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Poverty, Public Health, The War at Home

By George Duncan, MD, published on ML Today, March 24, 2020 This week I joined the first multi-specialty team in our hospital specifically dedicated to patients with COVID-19 infection. The “tidal wave” analogy has now many echoes in the mainstream media. I was saying this too. It will be a “tidal wave.” We can see the “tidal wave” coming in[…]

How the Passive Voice Allowed Flint’s Water Crisis to Persist

June 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty, Racism, The War at Home

by Kitanya Harrison, Published on Zora, June Flint still doesn’t have clean water. This statement has become a rallying cry, from city streets to social media. Yet it’s bothered me ever since I first heard it. Yes, it’s true that Flint’s water remains tainted and unsafe after five years. But the fact that we use the passive tense to talk[…]