Tag: pandemic
The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix
The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights deep racial inequities in wages, health, and vaccination rates—but it’s a century of racist public policy that…
The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” we get an inside and outside view of the ongoing, slow-moving disaster happening in Maryland prisons, which have…
Worker ownership can save businesses and protect employees
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for workers and small businesses alike. As reopening plans pit employee safety against economic viability for struggling businesses, can…
Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers
Amazon is intensifying the anti-union campaign at its Bessemer, Alabama, plant, where workers are currently voting to unionize. On Feb. 20, Amazon workers and their…
Black mass incarceration in the so-called Free State
Until recently, the horrifyingly unjust reality of America’s mass incarceration system has not been a central concern in popular political discourse. In the past few…
Is freedom possible in the digital era?
A livestream panel discussion and Q & A co-produced by TRNN and Project Censored, which we will host from 8-9:30 pm EST on Wednesday, April…
Can democracy exist in the digital era?
From viral police brutality videos shot by citizen journalists to whisper networks and remote organizing during the pandemic, digital technologies have empowered people around the…
Taharka Bros: Ice cream with a side of worker ownership
The pandemic wiped out 70% of their business, but Baltimore’s Taharka Bros’ worker-owners successfully pivoted to delivery, saving their company and offering insight into how…
What could life & media be without surveillance capitalism?
Twenty years ago, the digital future seemed very bright, indeed. However, as we have examined over the course of this special livestream series, the techno-utopian…
How co-ops across the US weathered COVID-19 by prioritizing their workers
In this TRNN special report, Jaisal Noor investigates the limitations and successes of eight co-ops across four states that were able to successfully weather the…
No funding? No problem, for Baltimore’s co-ops
While large corporations received billions in tax breaks and subsidies, worker co-ops struggled to raise capital. So worker-owners in Baltimore started their own revolving loan…
Americans are saving less, spending “like there’s no tomorrow”
American consumers are spending more and not saving as much, according to reporting by Rachel Wolfe, who covers consumer trends for The Wall Street Journal….
‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’
COVID-19 turned what were already inhumane conditions at Rikers Island, New York’s most notorious jail, into a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Prisoners, activists, and legal advocates…
35,000 Kaiser Permanente workers set to go on strike
35,000 members of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, a coalition of 21 local unions representing over 52,000 workers at the healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente…
