Posted in Disaster Relief News Water

‘It’s like nobody cares’: After two weeks without running water, Jackson, Miss. pleads for help

“Water is a basic necessity and it just brought a lot of frustration, anger, and disappointment,” said one of the city’s residents. “If you don’t know when it’s coming back, what is being done to help…

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Posted in Coronavirus News Pro Publica

The Trump Administration paid millions for test tubes — and got unusable mini soda bottles

The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway. by J. David McSwane…

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Willie Cosme and Wade Rathke sit in the back of the Poetry Passage in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Posted in Columns Community organizing economic justice Off the wire Wade Rathke

Puerto Rico two years after hurricane Maria

San Juan         Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a little over two years ago on September 17, 2017, with more force as a Cat-5 storm than any in the recorded history of the island.  In San Juan,…

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