A young girl looks at a memorial in the front of Amaral’s Central Market, a pillar of Fall River's Portuguese community. said Sunday. The United States is now well into its third and by far biggest surge of its epidemic. On Wednesday, funeral-style actions in more than 20 states across the country will mourn the nearly 90,000 people who have died of Covid-19 and denounce President Donald Trump and the GOP for failing to take sufficiently urgent and bold action against the pandemic. ? Workers know that if we wait until the science is certain before implementing protections, many workers will pay the price. The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is partnering with interfaith leaders calling for people to remember the dead and pray for healing during our respective religious services during the weekend of May 29, 30, and 31. “Not only are Senate Republicans refusing to consider the House-passed HEROES Act, they don’t even have an alternate plan.”. As people of faith, we cannot allow this grim number to go unnoticed. Click to learn more. Use the hashtags #DayofMourning, #Lament100k. The number of infections by COVID’19 per 100,000 inhabitants almost doubled in Portugal within a week. Copyright © 2020 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 |, MoveOn stages a protest against President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic (Saul Loeb:AFP), New: Shop to Support Independent Journalism. The decree was approved by the Council of Ministers last week, at the same meeting the Government banned nonessential domestic travelling, between October 30 and November 3. Click to learn more. The right to refuse is not the first step to protect workers. But we need a day to mark this moment, this sad, sad milestone of loss. And if that day is a year or two away? Immigrant communities, minorities, and the poor were particularly hard hit too, but no demographic group was spared. We encourage you to join with other people of faith to honor those who have died, and remember especially those who suffer the most during this crisis: the elderly, poor, black, brown, and native communities, those in prison, and those without a livable wage, sick leave or a social safety net. Among the 100,000 are our neighbors and friends, too many of their death notices containing the words “memorial service to be held later.”. ET on June 1 in taking a moment of silence to honor those who have died of COVID-19. 2. This must be a day not for self-congratulatory speeches or even for debating the horrifying numbers, but a time for acknowledging that behind each of those numbers was a flesh-and-blood human being. With the 100,000th recorded death due to COVID-19 in the United States, our nation marks a somber milestone. We must ensure every person in this country receives $2,000 a month for the duration of this crisis.” Canada, phone: (613) 228-9800 Because without acknowledging that loss, without letting it seep into our very souls, we will never be able to truly heal and eventually put behind us the daily trauma of watching that death toll mount. The head of Zelensky's office Andriy Yermak also said that he had contracted the coronavirus. Shortly before 1400 GMT Monday the tracker by the Baltimore-based university showed 10,018,278 cases recorded in the United States since the pandemic began, and 237,742 deaths. Traditionally, Day of Mourning ceremonies and events have helped us mark an important day in the labour movement, allowing workers and their families to come together every year to mourn for the dead, and re-commit to our fight for the living. As the world has faced this new and unknown contagion called COVID-19, governments and employers should be outfitting workers with all available protections, until the source of transmission is determined – not the other way around. We need a National Day of Mourning Without acknowledging the losses to COVID-19, we will not be able to truly heal. NASHUA, NH — City officials participated in a national day of mourning to remember those who lost their lives to COVID-19 Monday. catholic_prayers_for_the_dead_and_mourning.pdf. Here's how you can participate in this day. McConnell said last week that Republicans have not yet felt the “urgency” to act quickly on another relief package, and that attitude does not seem to have changed even after House Democrats on Friday passed the HEROES Act, a $3 trillion bill that would extend beefed-up unemployment benefits, provide another round of one-time $1,200 direct stimulus payments, and authorize $1 trillion in funding for state and local governments. Raw Story is independent. Those three basic rights are: 1. Right to participate in decisions that could affect their health and safety. https://t.co/AOkBSaYwy0, — Caroline Behringer (@CarolineBehr) May 17, 2020, In response to the GOP’s refusal to quickly move ahead with additional economic elief, progressive activist Jordan Uhl tweeted Monday that “millions of people are suffering and Congress is just giving them the finger.”. Unhinged from corporate overlords, we fight to ensure no one is forgotten. ON THE PODCAST: Election Day 2000... all over again? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. We’ve exposed billionaire tax evasion and uncovered White House efforts to poison our water. There has been no day of mourning, like the one to commemorate victims of Hurricane Katrina. Three days after thousands of lives were lost on 9/11, the United States marked a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.
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