5LL #91 - Reality, Strikes, Rent, Unemployment, Normalcy

Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker

Bernie Sanders’s policy proposals are especially apt now, when the coronavirus crisis is revealing an economy organized around production for the sake of profit, not need.

Every Food and Delivery Strike Happening Now
Bridget Read, The Cut

In response to increasingly precarious working conditions, workers are starting to strike.

Rent Is Due
Brendan O'Connor, Jewish Currents

In response to these conditions, housing activists have seen an upsurge of interest from newly politicized tenants across the country.

Take Care
Malcolm Harris, Commune

What the COVID-19 relief bill offers is a little survival, as a treat. It’s time for a counterproposal.

As Bad as the COVID-19 Crisis Is Now, Life Will Eventually Go Back to Being Normal-Bad Again
Matthew Brian Cohen, McSweeney's

We will not let this virus prevent our insurance companies from gouging us for basic services the way our Founding Fathers intended.

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