‘Essential, Not Expendable’—Child care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19
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“If you’re ‘essential’ enough to work through a pandemic, you’re essential enough to be paid a living wage.”
Six Appalachian states did not expand Medicaid. Their free clinics are bearing the burden of COVID-19.
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“I can’t imagine attempting to deal with this pandemic and continuing to deal with the epidemic of addiction, not to mention all the other chronic and acute diseases that people have,” without expanded Medicaid.
COVID-19
‘Total gibberish’—Inside UNC’s failed $2.5 million deal with neo-Confederates
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Shady dealings between UNC Chapel Hill and the Sons of Confederate Veterans show that good ol’ boy networks are still trying to run things in the South.
Combating White Supremacy
How Georgia’s governor is quietly obstructing criminal justice reform
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A quirk in the law gives Gov. Brian Kemp a tool to stop the progressive prosecutor movement from spreading to the Peach State.
Criminal Justice
Profit over people: Inside an Appalachian struggle to save rural healthcare
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For years, hospital privatization schemes have put profit over people.
Health
Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South
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Organizers from AL, GA, LA, and NC sat down with Scalawag to explain what steps renters, homeowners, and others can take to secure their housing in the wake of COVID-19.
Housing
Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South
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Through a variety of legal and organizing efforts, Southerners are banning together to fight not only the immediate COVID-19 crisis but the underlying housing crisis we’ve faced for years. Organizers from AL, GA, LA, and NC sat down with Scalawag.
Housing
‘We don’t want to die here.’ Detained immigrants protest amid pandemic
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Immigrants in detention centers are terrified by what they’re seeing, while ICE denies that anyone’s at risk.
Incarceration & Reform
COVID-19: An extensive—and growing—list of political demands in the South
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Because our survival has always depended on our collective power to build better systems.
Southern Movements
Op-ed: Stay-at-home policy isn’t effective without economic security and education
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"The notion of police officers issuing curfew violation tickets during a time of economic crisis is concerning."