“Mutual aid is just when people get together to meet each other’s basic survival needs with a shared understanding that we don’t have to wait for someone else, someone we think is more powerful than us, to do it for us,” Kenza Kamal says. #organizeCBUS
https://t.co/1FyfFCQPfk
I hope people take some time to listen to the new @intercepted. We discuss essential workers on strike, hospital workers doing GoFundMe to buy vital equipment, the corporate feeding trough of a bailout and hear powerful stories from our listeners: https://t.co/GpVCaGLGEN
BTW, we have the brilliant @CharleneCac tomorrow talking about her book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Please don’t skip this one. Charlene Carruthers is doing the work out there. https://t.co/1NbxkZgCjG
"Suddenly, all of our PPE is considered recyclable and reusable. We are told by the hospital that there is only one gown or one mask for everyone. The result is that everyone is being exposed to the virus and then contaminating others."
My latest story for @labornotes is an interview w/ courageous nurse activist Diana Torres about the horrific conditions in New York City hospitals & epic failure of politicians & healthcare executives to prepare for #COVIDー19 pandemic. https://t.co/UcNOnHZIEG
Sign and share this petition written by Teamsters working in unsafe conditions at UPS facilities! Demand that UPS protect the workers and the public!
https://t.co/MWxKTRqTIe
Things I'm doing as a #nurse to keep #Covid_19 out of my home:
1. Keeping my work shoes in bag in my trunk. Putting them on/off in work parking lot.
2. Stripping in garage & putting scrubs in washer right away. Washing each night in hot water, along with my husband's UPS uniform
Even as a nurse on the front lines of this crisis, I feel very privileged because I have a safe home to stay in, food in my fridge, and healthcare if we get sick (to name but a few). This pandemic brings privilege and inequality to light in a very concrete way.
i can't remember feeling my privilege more than i do right now during this crisis. maybe because it has so clearly demarcated the haves and the have nots - and in granular ways that sheds light on the things we took for granted. clean water, food, the option to shelter in place-
2. This virus does not discriminate with regards to age or health status. But it does have an affinity for us. Health care workers represent more than 20% of all #COVID19 cases.
@kumailn Just watched @TheBigSickMovie for the first time. Cried through half, laughed the other half. Beautiful film and story. It's *so* scary when the ppl we love are sick. Thank you for advocating for the precautions we need to #FlattenTheCurve.
All Federal student loans can now be suspended for 2 months.
That bill can for sure be taken care of, but it is NOT automatic. You need to call your servicer to get it done:
https://t.co/dJVC7bMFbq