health and safety
Coronavirus comeback boomerangs into a disaster
July 1, 2020The coronavirus pandemic is roaring back with Dr. Fauci warning now that we may see 100,000 new COVID 19 cases per day.
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Sanders: ‘National security involves a lot more than bombs’
July 1, 2020The senator introduces an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that slashes the military budget by 10 percent and redirects billions of dollars into eradicating poverty and homelessness."
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UFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
June 26, 2020LOGANSPORT, Ind.—The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a “rival” of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport,...
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As COVID-19 rages, America’s meatpacking workers battle for their lives
June 26, 2020Their sons and daughters, the Children of Smithfield, organize to save their parents, their children, and themselves.
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Native Alaskan village’s water under threat after 15,000 gallon oil spill
June 24, 2020It is one of the only two spawning grounds for the Kobuk/Selawik population of sheefish and also an important habitat for grayling, arctic char, whitefish, chum salmon and lake trout.
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