“Often missing in police brutality debate: Latinos” reads the June 3 Washington Post below the foldheadline. Gringos who took high school Spanish and graduated college with grievance exploitation majors shouldn’t take this lying down. Don’t editors know how hurtful it is to anyone laying the multicultural minefield not to use the term “Lantinx”? The martyr highlighted for this episode of dimming the facts was Ernie Serrano who “…was at a Stater Bros. market picking up snacks that night.” We still don’t know if any of them included Skittles. Author Silvia Foster-Frau leaves out a few other things that might be more germane … Continue reading →
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Worcester,
Mass. On May Day outside of St. Vincent Hospital here, there was a sing-along going on. It was the 55th day that the nurses, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, had been on strike at the hospital, and the sunny weather and blooming flowers meant morale was high.
Supporters, from local City Council member Khrystian King to the Worcester branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as members of other unions like the Teamsters and IATSE, joined the nurses to celebrate the worker’s holiday and to demand that the hospital, as the thematically rewritten lyrics to one song went, “bring in more nurses to care in there!”
Sense of guilt and being haunted by patients’ cries: Riverside nurse on long fight against COVID MORE Erin McIntosh, a rapid response nurse at Riverside Community Hospital, remembers how fearful her patients looked when they realized they’d have to be intubated. “Those looks and those cries, they haunt me. I think about them often. It’s been hard to move on,” she says. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.
The coronavirus pandemic made 2020 one of the darkest years for a lot of people. COVID-19 swept the globe, upending life as we knew it and killing millions. Hospitals were pushed to the breaking point.