Mobilizing to Fight the Spanish Flu
May 12, 2020
Author Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier shares a series of stories about taking action in times of crisis from The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement.
Category: Health and Medicine
Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health
May 11, 2020
—Howard Waitzkin
The struggle toward viable national health programs now must become part of a struggle to move beyond capitalism.
A Letter to My Anti-racist Feminist Sisters in the Time of COVID-19
April 27, 2020
—Zillah Eisenstein
“We may not know exactly where we are going, or how to get there, but we are headed there together.”
The Cautionary Tale of 1918
April 6, 2020
—Carol R. Byerly
The influenza epidemic of 1918 offers a cautionary tale of the power of a virus to prey on humans in war and peace and to challenge our ability to control its spread and lethality.
What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families
April 2, 2020
— Andrea Mazzarino
America’s Endless Wars Go On (and On) and the Wounds Multiply
The Trump Administration Has Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Matters During COVID-19, They Should Use it
March 27, 2020
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
In the time of COVID-19, it is crucial that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) maximize its use of prosecutorial discretion for vulnerable immigrants.
Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity
January 9, 2020
—Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet
When we undermine the health of others or neglect their illness, blind to their suffering, we deny their humanity, reinforcing their “otherness”