The Best of the Week’s News

• “My Body is a Confederate Monument” (NYT)
   
• The virus gets the upper hand as the U.S. enters a devastating new phase of the pandemic. (Atlantic)
   
• How Arizona lost control of its coronavirus epidemic. (WaPo) 
   
• Survivors of three meatpackers who died of COVID are suing Tyson Foods, alleging the company lied to keep them on the job. (Des Moines Register)
   
• Colorado is reinvestigating the 2019 police killing of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. (AP, Elle)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• A seamstress in a Michael Kors factory in Cambodia served two months in prison for denouncing the covid risks in her workplace. (Buzzfeed)
   
• Dockworkers will shut down West Coast ports on Juneteenth, in memory of George Floyd. (The Nation)
   
• New research confirms that jails and prisons are incubators that spread coronavirus to the larger community. (WaPo)
   
• Coronavirus stalks farm workers in California. (LA Times)
   
• As coronavirus tightens its grip on Brazil, the country’s far-right president flirts with a military coup. (NYT)
   
• Trump’s Department of the Interior argued that migratory birds are a menace to humanity. (Bloomberg Law) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Employers have a legal duty to protect their workers from hazards including coronavirus, but Trump’s OSHA refuses to enforce the law. (TNR)
   
• Harry Sentoso took a job at Amazon’s warehouse in Irvine to bank some quick cash before retirement, 2 weeks later he was dead of COVID-19. (LA Times)
   
• George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer, was a beloved member of his community. (Buzzfeed)
   
• How Wendi C. Thomas built MLK50, a non-profit newsroom dedicated to the low-wage workers of Memphis. (NYT)
   
• A CNN camera crew was arrested live on the air in Minneapolis as they covered the aftermath of last night’s protests against the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. (CNN)

Sidney’s Picks:

• How Virginia is juking its COVID-19 stats. (The Atlantic)
   
• Sanitation workers in New Orleans were demanding hazard pay and PPE, they were fired and replaced with prisoners making $1.33/hr. (PayDay Report)
   
• How the Indian state of Kerala beat COVID-19. (The Guardian)  
   
• Ohio workers got a reprieve thanks to hackers who crashed the state’s snitching website. (Vice)
   
• Remembering Celso Mendoza a Mississippi chicken processor and labor leader who died of COVID-19. (Clarion Ledger)