December 2020 | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

December 2020

Sidney's Picks: Racial Dialysis and Breathing on a Jet Plane

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Duncan C, Renal Dialysis, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney’s Picks: My COVID Vaccine; NYC Delivery Drivers Organize; Terror in Spokane

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“The District Vaccinator,” Harper’s, National Library of Medicine. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • When will I get my COVID vaccine: An epidemiologist and veteran activist explains. (The Nation)
     
  • NYC delivery workers organize for a better life. DoorDash drivers would have to work for two days to buy a single share in the company. (The City)
     
  • A man with a political manifesto and an alleged pipe bomb threatened to blow up Teamster headquarters in Spokane, he has also been charged with setting a fire that nearly consumed the office of the Spokane County Democrats. (Fox 28)
     
  • The GOP’s poison pill to sabotage COVID relief. (American Prospect) 

Unifor's Triumph; Google's Surveillance

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Unifor president Jerry Dias, by People’s Social Forum, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News: