https://www.facebook.com/174912008599/posts/10157683665508600/?vh=e The video shows the officer with his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck begging the officer to allow him to breathe, but the officer refused while continuing to apply more pressure until the paramedics came.

Every day we live with the threat of coronavirus, our children suffer. Many are watching family members and friends get sick and die. Most are losing out on milestones like end of year activities, graduation, sports seasons and time with friends. We need to get them back in the classroom and connected to the academic, social and emotional services they need to meet their full potential – but we have to make sure they are safe and the health of everyone is the school community is protected. And that means monitoring and testing everyone entering the building, extra disinfecting cleanings, smaller class sizes and extra supports for traumatized students. It also means boosting broadband services and supplying technology for the entire community for distance learning so no one is left behind. We know this will take more – not fewer – resources, and the House made a great start. Now we need the Senate to pass the recovery package with at least what the House has provided: Nearly $1 trillion for state and local services like public safety, healthcare, mental health and opioid treatment and public education, including at least $100 billion in direct aid to our K-12 public schools and public colleges and universities.

I agree with the Fed Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (appointed by the current president), that Congress must keep these millions of people in their homes with food in their refrigerators. This once in a 100 yr catastrophe is custom made for government help. $3T is generous and appropriate. Now we must keep the funds moving the country forward.

This is important to the senior class, because they have gone through so much this year. Spring sports have been cancelled, events such as prom, senior trip, and much more has been cancelled, along with the remaining school year. These students at least deserve to graduate together, not separately. If the staff truly believes 2020 is the vision for the future, then let the class see it’s own choice.

This is important because there are several minorities testing positive for Covid-19 because they are not provided with the safest level of PPE as anyone else in the hospital and that is not fair! Everyone that is on these frontlines working and being in contact with people who are already struggling with underlying issues should always be protected, for the employees safety to have to be at work to feed their family all the way up to the employees who are being forced to work in these conditions and then bringing it home to their families as well!!!!

We the people are affected by this pandemic as well! If someone who owes the IRS, or the government in any way can get one, we should be able to get help as well! If someone is behind on child support/TANF it is the same as owing the government, why are we excluded? I understand we have the responsibility to care and provide for the children we created. However, we are out of work and struggling to make ends meet as well! We deserve help like anyone else!

We are demanding hazard pay for working during Coronavirus considering we are essential during this epidemic and we should at be paid for it. The union is no help to employees during this at all they should be fighting for this hazard pay. Hopefully this is an outlet to make the change happen.

TO STOP THE DICTATORIAL TAKEOVER OF THE UNITED STATES

Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the entire world. Hundreds of thousands of people have already died (nearly 100,000 Americans alone), and the disease is spreading by the day. As long as vaccines and treatments remain unattainable, people will continue to get sick and die. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Oxfam has called on world leaders to come together, and take concrete steps to ensure that we find a vaccine for Coronavirus as quickly as possible. The leaders of South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, and Pakistan have already pledged their support to a People’s Vaccine, as has the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. We are now calling on the White House and U.S. Congress to sign on and pledge full support for a People’s Vaccine. As per Oxfam’s People’s Vaccine campaign, the commitments include the following: A mandatory worldwide pooling of patents and sharing of all COVID-19-related knowledge, data and technologies in order to ensure that any nation can produce or buy affordable doses of vaccines, treatments and tests. The rapid establishment of an equitable global manufacturing and distribution plan for all vaccines, treatments and tests that is fully funded by rich nations and which guarantees transparent “at true cost prices” and supplies in accordance with need rather than the ability to pay. This would include urgent action to massively increase manufacturing capacity to produce the vaccines in sufficient quantities and train and recruit millions of health workers to distribute them. A guarantee that COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests are provided free of charge to everyone, everywhere, with priority given to frontline workers, vulnerable people and poor countries with the least capacity to save lives. If U.S. leaders signed onto this agreement, the impact would be felt worldwide: It would open the door for more leaders of Western countries to support this agreement, as well. We will undoubtedly quicken the process of finding treatment for Coronavirus by all coming together and pooling together resources and knowledge -- hundreds of thousands of lives (and possibly more) would be saved, and immeasurable pain and suffering will have been prevented. More information: "World leaders unite in call for a people’s vaccine against COVID-19,” May 14, 2020. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/world-leaders-unite-call-peoples-vaccine-against-covid-19 "OPEN LETTER: Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19," Oxfam International, Medium, May 13, 2020. https://medium.com/@Oxfam/uniting-behind-a-peoples-vaccine-against-covid-19-87eec640976

Silence in this case presents a level of acceptance that is as deplorable as the act itself, and anything less than speaking out proves what we have been fighting against for decades: a bigotry that confines women – Latinas and women of color in general - to a place of subjugation that erases our accomplishments and contributions to this city and society at large. In Power, Tahanie A. Aboushi, Esq. Aliya Allen Catherine Almonte Gabriela Álvarez, Liberation Cuisine Rocio Aranda-Alvarado Maritere Arce Caron Atlas, NOCD-NY Alexa Aviles, Community Leader & BK Community Board 7 Member Councilmember Diana Ayala, Council District 8, Manhattan Lilliam Barrios Paoli Elizabeth Bhargava
 Maggie Castro, Women’s advocate Ischia Bravo, Bronx Community Activist Jazmin Chavez, Former Deputy Director of Public Tech, NYC Council Solana Chehtman Ana Chireno Gabri Christa, Artist Karina Claudio Betancourt, Former Senior Director for Community Engagement, NYCC Daughters of the Movement Stacy Lynch Gina Belafonte Suzanne Kay Hasna Muhammad Dominique Sharpton Keisha Sutton-James Ilyasah Shabazz Susan R. Delvalle Assemblywoman Carmen De La Rosa Daisy Dominguez, Diversity and Inclusion thought leader Councilman Daniel Dromm Abigail Disney Congressman Adriano Espaillat Amanda Farias, State Committee Member 87AD Annalicia Finol, Chief of Staff, Office of State Senator Gustavo Rivera Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez Jasmine Fernandez Sandra A. Garcia Betancourt Alexis Grenell, Writer & Co-Founder of Pythia Public Erica Gonzalez, Former Executive Editor, El Diario/La Prensa
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It's important because we been working through this crisis the whole time. We never shut down working 12hrs 6 days a week. We risk our lives an family lives because we go home to them not knowing if we have the virus or not. An the Bosses are at home with there family safe not really caring about us. I know that people at my facility have the virus an the company just send them home spray the machine down an keep it moving. If we are going to risk our lives we need to get paid. I work for a billion dollar company an they will not pay us.

Black American wealth is shrinking daily and our median net worth is projected to be zero by 2056. This reparations plan will pump billions of dollars into Black Businesses each year (for 225 years) and greatly increase the net worth of Black Americans. Black Americans are owed reparations and must receive it NOW!!!.