Jack Geiger was a true giant of social medicine: the father of the community health center movement and a relentless opponent of racism and militarism. His was a life truly well lived.
He was my mentor and friend. I will be ever grateful to him.
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This was an extremely disturbing video to watch. It was unacceptable in so many ways: violating someone’s rights just because of the color of their skin, is always unacceptable. Also unacceptable is the fact that ICE hasn’t confirmed or denied that these were their agents.
Without #OSHA, there is little incentive for employers to protect workers from COVID-19 at work. Especially outside of health care, OSHA leaves it to employers to control the virus in their workplaces. Workers will get sick and die. https://t.co/GWxry27JsW
Black and Latinx people are being infected and dying due to the coronavirus at higher rates around the United States, though this disease is incapable of racism. Our country's preexisting infection of racial oppression set us up for this. https://t.co/z9NZbWG8DH
Doctors and nurses are the superheroes of our day. My new column looks at how hospitals are punishing and sometimes firing them for speaking up about inadequate personal protective equipment. This is where the unconscionable meets the idiotic: https://t.co/8Bwmh9WKO9
I appreciate that @Amazon, @Walmart & @McDonalds have kept their doors open so people have access to food. But they also need to protect the health of workers & the American people. I’m urging them to do the right thing & give all workers paid sick leave. https://t.co/kutTFsbi42
We all are going to be spending more time at home and perhaps outside. Ticks are out in force, check carefully you don't want to add Lyme disease to everything else going on.
I’ve covered warlords, dictators and corrupt authoritarians for decades, Mr. President, and they always threaten journalists. But in the end, they have a way of being toppled, even imprisoned, sometimes together with their corrupt family members. We will continue to do our jobs.
My #obama colleague and former head of OSHA @drdavidmichaels knows how to handle workplace crises and why the current Trump policies are deficient. Read his excellent piece on handling the #CoronaVirusChallenge here.https://t.co/UrcQc2TMxG
I live in Roslindale. My son bikes to work out at the #parkwayymca after school. Centre Street is so dangerous that he rides on the sidewalk. We need bike lanes.