Tag: public health
Baltimore Organizers Say Climate Justice Is Also Health, Housing, and Transit Justice
The Baltimore People’s Climate Movement says that climate isn’t just an issue for our natural world; it also impacts our infrastructure and most vulnerable communities Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work…
Making Global Climate Change Local
At the Sanders Institute Gathering, Abdul El-Sayed, the runner-up in Michigan’s Democratic 2018 governor’s race primary, talks about how to bridge fights for environmental health and justice with the global fight to reduce carbon emissions…
“We can’t flush our toilets, we can’t take baths, it’s a crisis situation”
Residents at the Edgar Allan Poe Homes say they remain without adequate running water one week after a water main break ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak: ‘We’re At the Beginning’
Lack of tests and testing facilities has the United States playing a dangerous game of catch up Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for…
Biden Is Wrong—Single-Payer Healthcare Does Help Fight Pandemics
In the last Democratic candidate debate, Biden claimed that single-payer healthcare didn’t help Italy fight the coronavirus. Health system expert Dr. James Kahn explains why he was wrong. Producer: Gregory Wilpert Video Editor: Bababtunde Ogunfolaju…
The Politics of a Public Health Failure, and the Way Forward
TRNN’s Marc Steiner talks to a social futurist about how progressive governing creates a future for us all in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Producer: Marc Steiner Video Editor/Visual Producer: Cameron Granadino Chase Producer:…
Surviving The Coronapocalypse
How apartheid and redlining are fueling the global COVID-19 pandemic and how people can fight back. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational…
Activists Win Earth Day Victory Against Dirty Trash Incinerator
Activists held a die-in at the incinerator to demand its closing while wearing face masks and gloves to protect against COVID-19. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…
COVID-19 spikes in prison will spread to the larger community
The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice—whose mission is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system—reports that the rate of COVID cases in federal and state prisons is more than four…
Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUS
Public health experts and advocates continue to shine a light on the horrifying statistics of COVID-19 infections within the prison-industrial complex. Those same experts, moreover, have shown that outbreaks in prisons and jails spread quickly…
How an entire Black community was poisoned
What does ‘environmental racism’ mean? What does it look like in practice? When researchers discovered that residents of the small, unincorporated, predominantly Black community of Tallevast, Florida, were experiencing abnormally high rates of cancer and…
The drug-resistant bacteria crisis no one’s talking about
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world for the past two years, but there’s a potentially deadlier threat creeping across the globe right now that hardly anyone is talking about. According to a recent report…
