Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
Finance capitalists collected nearly $1 million in the first three months of the year to oust Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million.
Before Cuba experienced its first COVID-!9 case it had already updated a plan to prevent and control the disease.
Capitalist globalization means accepting a permanent triage of humanity and dooming part of the human race to eventual extinction.
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
