Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human
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The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the globe, leaving immeasurable human suffering in its wake. Who is left behind, struggling to survive on the frontlines of precarity, is \\u2013 as with all things \\u2013 determined primarily by wealth, privilege, and access to resources and political capital.
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This fact has been starkly on display in recent days, as Congressional Democrats began debating their response to the crisis: corporations, wealthy investors and industry were prioritized, formal wage workers were given crumbs, and the undocumented and informal economy workers \\u2013 such as domestic caregivers; undocumented workers; sex workers; and freelance, contract, and off-the-books workers \\u2013 were ignored completely.\\xa0
On this week\'s episode, we analyze a 48-hour time period of coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post when the discussion of who was going to be prioritized and aided \\u2013 and who wasn\'t \\u2013 cemented in popular discourse with little logic or meaningful debate.
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We are joined by Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM).