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Your MCW team is taking our own advice this week to take care of ourselves, so we’re keeping it simple with a mix of actions.
Keep the Postal Service Alive!
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Last week, one of our workouts was to support universal voting by mail. But to vote by mail, there has to be mail—something that is, bizarrely, actually being debated at this moment. The US Postal Service is at risk of bankruptcy, and Republicans would like it to go broke. So, this week, let’s take a stand for the USPS.
When White Folks Catch a Cold, Black Folks Get Pneumonia...
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With the U.S.’s history of institutional, structural, and medical racism, it is unsurprising that communities of color are being hit the hardest by COVID-19. In Louisiana, black people make up one third of the population but 70% of coronavirus deaths; in Michigan, black people make up 14% of the population but 40% of deaths. Meanwhile, American Indians face health disparities which make them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, at the same time that they are facing health services funding disparities. Time to get to work.
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