Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves.
Tag: Global Health
Right wing media figures and Republican elected officials could save lives and prevent illness by championing COVID vaccines
There’s an opportunity right now to save a lot of lives from being unjustly taken by a deadly virus. A really big opportunity.
From chaos to coherence: President Joe Biden’s worldview comes into focus
When he says that he is fighting to save our democracy against all threats, foreign and domestic, natural or manmade, believe him. This is a politician who means what he says and says what he means. That’s what coherence sounds like.
Biden-Harris administration says yes to suspending patents on coronavirus vaccines
The United States has decided to join most of the world community in endorsing a policy of suspending patents on coronavirus vaccines, in a win for global health.
Equity, climate justice, and public health go hand in hand, Netroots Nation panelists say
The world is grappling with a novel coronavirus pandemic while climate damage grows ever worse. Netroots Nation 2020 decided to explore how systemic inequality defines both fights.
COVID-19 Update: Food, transparency, and the fallout in our hardest hit communities
Food processing facilities remain a primary coronavirus outbreak nexus. We look at the fallout in that industry and highlight two areas within the Pacific Northwest hard hit by the pandemic in this installment of COVID-19 Update.
COVID-19 Update: Food, fraud, the homeless, strikes, the courts and miscalculations
In Washington, food processing plants are becoming hotspots for both disease and dissatisfaction, Oregon’s Supreme Court has told a circuit court judge to explain at length why he thinks Governor Brown overstepped her authority, and Idaho is implementing a new plan for testing and tracking.
The Pandemic is Personal: Ed Hodapp on staying at home in America’s wealthiest city
A Sammamish resident discusses what it’s like to live with two other people who are also at higher than average risk from COVID-19 under one roof.
COVID-19 Update: Illegal openings, legal confusion and questionable tests
Two gyms were given cease and desist orders in Washington State, while Oregon’s stay at home order is under review by the state’s Supreme Court, and a test used in Eastern Idaho is being questioned as to its accuracy.
Laborers fight for safe working conditions while the media chases right wing protesters
While big media has focused on protests organized by covidiots, one hundred and ninety worker actions resulting from refusing to be victims of COVID-19 are largely ignored.
COVID-19 Update: New mask requirements, threats, lawsuits, and antibody tests
King County has announced new mask-wearing requirements, while the religious right in Oregon has joined militant Republicans in Washington in launching legal maneuvers against stay at home orders.
The Pandemic is Personal: Sedro-Woolley’s Germaine Kornegay on small town resilience
One of Skagit County’s local elected officials writes about what it’s like to live in a rural community during a time of great stress and hardship.
COVID-19 Update: Elected officials call for testing, tracing, and mitigation
Both Governors of Washington and Oregon have extended their stay at home orders, and both have unveiled plans for reopening their states in conjunction with plans for testing, tracing and mitigation.
The Pandemic is Personal: David Johnson of NPI on rooming during a public health crisis
NPI’s Literary Advocate writes about what it’s like to live with housemates during the worst public health emergency the United States has seen in decades.