Tag: COVID-19
DREAMers Are Awaiting A Supreme Court Decision That Could End Their Legal Status
The decision could impact thousands of frontline medical workers helping to fight the COVID-19 crisis. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Chase Producer: Genevieve Montinar Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Tea Party 2.0? Reopen Government Protests Linked To Right-Wing Donors
The ongoing protests endanger public health, but are supported by Trump and may be funded by right-wing donors. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
The Second COVID-19 Bailout Still Won’t Be Enough
Trump demands that states take the lead on COVID-19 response but won’t give federal support for local governments or workers, and is still fighting oversight for the trillions already spent on stimulus. Director/Video Editor: Bababtunde…
Amazon Workers Hold Nationwide Strikes As COVID-19 Sweeps Warehouses
Fired Amazon employee Chris Smalls says workers will protest until they feel protected, while Amazon-owned Whole Foods is ranking stores where employees are most likely to unionize. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery…
Should Americans Demand A Socialist Shock Doctrine?
The for-profit healthcare system has failed to protect most people during the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s increasing demand for policies like Medicare for All. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Kweisi Mfume Calls Himself A ‘Progressive Moderate.’ What Does That Mean?
Kweisi Mfume wants to return to Congress representing Maryland’s 7th District. He discusses the 2020 elections, the Democratic Party, how governments should respond to COVID-19, and the fifth anniversary of Freddie Gray’s death. Director/Video Editor:…
Apple And Google Are Going To Track You (Even More) To Monitor COVID-19 Spread
Big tech volunteers to create platforms that facilitate digital contact tracing, but how will they protect private health data? Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
Can Sex Workers Survive COVID-19 When The Government Won’t Give Aid?
Sex Workers’ rights advocates have been demanding decriminalization of their work, but now under the pandemic regulations even legal forms of sex work like strip clubs have been targeted by the federal government and alienated…
Correction Officers And Inmate Advocates Prepare For Action At Jessup Prison
Corrections officers and prison abolitionists will join together Saturday to protest the lack of PPE and testing, and the need for parole, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Subscribe…
‘Children Are Infected, Inmates Are Dying’
Maryland’s largest public sector union staged a socially-distanced protest to demand more PPE, testing, and safer working conditions. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
Can Public Education Survive COVID-19?
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted apartheid conditions in US public schools. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden Chase Producer: Genevieve Montinar Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
‘Students Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Planet’
Remote learning has created huge barriers to learning for low income communities of color, where four in ten families lack high speed internet access. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
A Just Reopening Prioritizes People Over Profits
As Trump’s “reopening” endangers lives, Democrats must advance policy that gives working people something to fight for, argues In These Times’ Sarah Lazare. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Chase Producer: Genevieve Montinar…
US Sanctions On Iran Fueled By Hate And Money
John Bolton brought Richard Goldberg from the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies to serve as a senior advisor for the National Security Council, ensuring that sanctions against Iran will intensify even as Iran is…
COVID-19 Exposes The Generational Injustices That Demand Reparations
Generations of racism created the conditions that made African Americans more susceptible to COVID-19, and reparations are the way to address that injustice. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
How Democracy Falls In East Europe And The Balkans
Freedom House says Eastern European and Balkans democracies are in danger. COVID-19 has opened the door to surveillance, and threatens democracies from Hungary to India to Israel. Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Israel Strips Financial Aid From Palestinian Prisoners, Leaving Them To Face COVID-19 Alone
Calls and visits are denied to many of Israel’s Palestinian prisoners, leaving their fate in the pandemic unknown. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
Women In Prisons Say They’re Being Punished For Speaking Out About COVID-19 Risks
Women say they’re being punished for contacting people outside about their living conditions. Activists are planning an action May 23 at Jessup Correctional Facility in response. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Largest Public Utility To Outsource Hundreds Of Jobs Amid Covid-19
Despite Trump’s ‘America First’ policy, the Tennessee Valley Authority is outsourcing hundreds of federal jobs overseas. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Amazon VP Quits In Support Of Fired Whistleblowers
Senior Amazon engineer Tim Bray said the firings were evidence of “a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.” We get a response from Chris Smalls, one of those fired workers. Shortly after recording,…
Yemen’s Civil War Now Has Three Sides
The Southern Transitional Council wants the city of Aden to secede, the Saudi coalition is breaking up, and the Houthis say they weren’t informed of the US-brokered ceasefire. Director/Video Editor: Bababtunde Ogunfolaju Visual Producer: Andrew…
