April 25 COVID News

The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not on this list, send me an email and let me know.

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Struggle and Fightback

A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World, Cooperation Jackson March 31, https://cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/towardsageneralstrike

Li, Waynee. “Vancouver Police End Occupation of School by Homeless Advocates Citing COVID-19 Fears.” The Star, April 19, 2020. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/04/19/vancouver-police-end-occupation-of-school-by-homeless-advocates-citing-covid-19-fears.html.

Menitoff, Rachel. “Coronavirus Latest: Protesters Interrupt Baltimore Mayor Jack Young During COVID-19 Press Conference – CBS Baltimore.” CBS Baltimore, April 21, 2020. https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-latest-protesters-interrupt-baltimore-mayor-jack-young-during-covid-19-press-conference/.

Care

Kistler, C., and PCR-RCP. “The COVID-19 Pandemic: In Canada, Revolutionaries Are Building Networks of Solidarity.” Redspark (blog), April 12, 2020. https://www.redspark.nu/en/imperialist-states/the-covid-19-pandemic-in-canada-revolutionaries-are-building-networks-of-solidarity/.

Resources – Information

“COVID-19 Behind Bars.” Accessed April 17, 2020. https://covid19behindbars.com/.

National Commission on Correctional Healthcare. “Study of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities,” April 13, 2020. https://www.ncchc.org/study-of-covid-19-in-correctional-facilities.

COBP. “Surprise, on a Encore Des Droits?!!,” April 15, 2020. https://cobp.resist.ca/fr/node/19186.

Analysis & Commentary

Altenberg, Jason. “‘Since Covid Began, We’ve Seen the Highest Number of Overdoses since 2017’: What Happens When the Opioid Epidemic Meets a Global Pandemic?” Toronto Life, April 14, 2020. https://torontolife.com/city/since-covid-began-weve-seen-the-highest-number-of-overdoses-since-2017-what-happens-when-the-opioid-epidemic-meets-a-global-pandemic/.

Food Secure Canada. “Covid-19: Food Systems Policy Proposals from the Food Movement,” April 8, 2020. https://foodsecurecanada.org/covid-policy-spreadsheet.

Davis, Mike. “The Monster Enters.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/mike-davis-in-a-plague-year.

D’Eramo, Marco. “The Philosopher’s Epidemic.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/marco-d-eramo-the-philosopher-s-epidemic.

Gazi. “Keep Colonialism Closed and Lets Reopen The Revolution!” Hood Communist (blog), April 23, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/23/keep-colonialism-closed-and-lets-reopen-the-revolution/.

Keith, Njera. “The Ballot Won’t Beat It: Race, Democracy, and Coronavirus in America.” Hood Communist (blog), April 23, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/23/the-ballot-wont-beat-it-race-democracy-and-coronavirus-in-america/.

Macfarlane, Laurie. “A Spectre Is Haunting the West – the Spectre of Authoritarian Capitalism.” openDemocracy, April 16, 2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/a-spectre-is-haunting-the-west-the-spectre-of-authoritarian-capitalism/.

McNeil, Donald G. Jr. “The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead.” The New York Times, April 18, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/coronavirus-america-future.html.

Moody, Kim. “How ‘Just-in-Time’ Capitalism Spread COVID-19.” Spectre Journal, April 8, 2020. https://spectrejournal.com/how-just-in-time-capitalism-spread-covid-19/.

Murphy, R. Taggart. “East and West.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/r-taggart-murphy-east-and-west-76ba12e6-a597-495b-83c6-6e56479ebc5c.

NLR Editors. “A Planetary Pandemic.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/a-planetary-pandemic.

Google Docs. “Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of Covid-19,” April 22, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EK9MSBySLHLk9aqADj2k3i5Z7RD-fKpLdAVplKBFw8w/edit.

PCFMLM. “L’irruption de la crise de Covid-19 comme test d’économie politique?».” Materialisme Dialectique (blog), April 12, 2020. https://materialisme-dialectique.com/lirruption-de-la-crise-de-covid-19-comme-test-deconomie-politique/.

PCR-RCP. “COVID-19, the Canadian State, and Global Capitalism.” Revolutionary Communist Party (blog), March 25, 2020. http://www.pcrrcp.ca/en/6124.

Prashad, Vijay. “Either Socialism Will Defeat the Louse or the Louse Will Defeat Socialism.” MR Online, April 24, 2020. https://mronline.org/2020/04/24/either-socialism-will-defeat-the-louse-or-the-louse-will-defeat-socialism/.

Rameu, Max. “A Critical Analysis of the Response to COVID-19.” Hood Communist (blog), April 23, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/23/a-critical-analysis-of-the-response-to-covid-19/.

Roy, Arundhati. “Pandemic Is a Portal: Arundhati Roy on COVID-19 in India, Imagining Another World & Fighting for It.” Democracy Now!, April 16, 2020. https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/16/arundhati_roy_coronavirus_india.

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. “What COVID-19 Tells Us about Racial Capitalism.” Daraja Press (blog), April 24, 2020. https://darajapress.com/2020/04/24/what-covid-19-tells-us-about-racial-capitalism.

Shoki, William. “Out of Sight.” Africa Is A Country, April 21, 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/out-of-sight.

Via Campesina English. “To Change the World, Support Peasant Agriculture!,” April 20, 2020. https://viacampesina.org/en/to-change-the-world-support-peasant-agriculture-reminds-ecvc-through-17april-actions/.

Tooze, Adam. “How Coronavirus Almost Brought down the Global Financial System.” The Guardian, April 14, 2020, sec. Business. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/14/how-coronavirus-almost-brought-down-the-global-financial-system.

Ableism

Page, Julia. “With ‘no End in Sight’ to COVID-19 Lockdown in Long-Term Care Homes, 43-Year-Old Wants Out.” CBC News, April 21, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-chslds-young-adults-living-with-disabilities-autonomous-1.5538583.

Whittington-Walsh, Fiona. “COVID-19 and the Crisis in Memory and Compassion.” rabble.ca, April 22, 2020. https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/04/covid-19-and-crisis-memory-and-compassion.

COVID-19 The Virus

Karedes, Drew. “CDC Reviewing ‘Stunning’ Universal Testing Results from Boston Homeless Shelter.” Boston 25 News, April 15, 2020. https://www.boston25news.com/news/cdc-reviewing-stunning-universal-testing-results-boston-homeless-shelter/Z253TFBO6RG4HCUAARBO4YWO64/.

Economy

Hanieh, Adam. “When Oil Markets Go Viral.” Versobooks.com, April 8, 2020. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4651-when-oil-markets-go-viral.

Harvey, Fiona. “Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Will Cause Famine of Biblical Proportions.’” The Guardian, April 21, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/21/coronavirus-pandemic-will-cause-famine-of-biblical-proportions?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1587508755.

Nikiforuk, Andrew. “For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue.” The Tyee. The Tyee, April 18, 2020. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/18/Code-Blue-for-Oil/.

Elders

Johnson, Lisa. “For-Profit Nursing Homes Provide ‘inferior’ Care, New Report Claims.” CBC News, April 19, 2016. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/for-profit-nursing-homes-plos-medicine-1.3541402.

Livesay, Chris. “Italian Police Probe Nursing Home with 190 Reported COVID-19 Deaths.” CBS News, April 17, 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-italy-nursing-home-190-reportedly-dead-covid19-police-investigation-today-2020-04-17/.

MacFarlane, John, and Verity Stevenson. “COVID-19 in Quebec: In Mea Culpa, Legault Says He Should Have Raised Wages of Long-Term Care Workers Long Ago.” CBC, April 17, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-19-quebec-april-17-1.5535556.

MacLellan, Ainslie. “Mask, Gown and Glove Shortages Persist at Quebec Long-Term Care Home Hit Hard by COVID-19.” CBC News, April 23, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-lack-protective-gear-chsld-quebec-1.5541940.

McKenna, Kate. “At Quebec Nursing Home, Orderlies Worked without PPE, COVID-19 Patients Wandered Halls | CBC News.” CBC, April 17, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chsld-herron-ciusss-ouest-de-l-%C3%AEle-de-montr%C3%A9al-slow-to-act-1.5536996.

———. “Orderlies Worked without PPE, COVID-19 Patients Wandered Herron’s Halls for Days after Health Agency Took Over.” CBC News, April 17, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chsld-herron-ciusss-ouest-de-l-%C3%AEle-de-montr%C3%A9al-slow-to-act-1.5536996.

Pouliot, Gaetan, Daniel Tremblay, and Marie-Maude Denis. “Court Documents Reveal Owner of CHSLD Herron’s Lengthy Criminal Past.” CBC, April 16, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/samir-chowieri-katasa-group-chsld-herron-criminal-past-1.5533934.

Richer, Jules. “Aînés Affamés et Déshydratés: «ils Ont Crevé de Faim».” Journal de Montréal, April 23, 2020. https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/04/23/aines-affames-et-deshydrates.

Far Right, Conspiracies, weird things people believe

Costache, Ioanida. “‘Until we are able to gas them like the Nazis, the Roma will infect the nation:’ Roma and the ethnicization of COVID-19 in Romania.” DoR (blog), April 22, 2020. https://www.dor.ro/roma-and-the-ethnicization-of-covid-19-in-romania/.

Harriot, Michael. “‘Open the Economy’ Protesters Only Care About White Lives.” The Root, April 22, 2020. https://www.theroot.com/open-the-economy-is-the-new-white-lives-matter-1842987034?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_facebook.

Huffpost. “The Extremists And Grifters Behind Many Of The Anti-Lockdown Protests.” HuffPost, April 22, 2020. https://va.news-republic.com/a/6818573519106867717?app_id=1239&c=fb&gid=6818573519106867717&impr_id=6818599926374729989&language=en&region=wd&user_id=6593853322267262982.

Kampeas, Ron. “Trump Administration Health Spokesman Tweets about Soros and Rothschild Family ‘Control.’” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog), April 23, 2020. https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/trump-administration-health-spokesman-tweets-about-soros-and-rothschild-family-control.

Kilgore, Ed. “The Lockdown Backlash May Be the New Tea Party Movement.” Intelligencer, April 16, 2020. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/the-lockdown-backlash-may-be-the-new-tea-party-movement.html?utm_source=fb.

Shaw, Donald. “Group Promoting COVID-19 ‘Liberate’ Protests Tied to Hydroxychloroquine Push.” Truthout, April 24, 2020. https://truthout.org/articles/group-promoting-covid-19-liberate-protests-tied-to-hydroxychloroquine-push/.

Wilson, Jason. “The Rightwing Groups behind Wave of Protests against Covid-19 Restrictions.” The Guardian, April 17, 2020, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions.

Gender

Canadian Press. “As Millions of Workers Apply for Help, Mothers-to-Be Say They Can’t Get CERB.” CityNews Montreal (blog), April 17, 2020. https://montreal.citynews.ca/2020/04/17/as-millions-of-workers-apply-for-help-mothers-to-be-say-they-cant-get-cerb/.

teleSUR English. “Domestic Violence Increases 431% in Brazil Amid Lockdown,” April 20, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Domestic-Violence-Drastically-Increase-in-Brazil-Amid-Lockdown—20200420-0019.html.

Grierson, Jamie. “Domestic Abuse Killings ‘more than Double’ amid Covid-19 Lockdown.” The Guardian, April 15, 2020, sec. Society. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/15/domestic-abuse-killings-more-than-double-amid-covid-19-lockdown.

Masbourian, Patrick. “Les femmes racisées «?exploitées?» pour leur travail auprès des personnes âgées, selon un chef syndical.” Radio-Canada, April 21, 2020. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/tout-un-matin/segments/chronique/166242/femmes-racisees-exploitation-chsld-cisss-centre-sud.

Yazer, Jon. “Coronavirus: Outbreak in Federal Women’s Prison Validates Worst Fears of Advocates.” NOW Magazine, April 20, 2020. https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/bd64648c-830a-11ea-803a-1244d5f7c7c6/.

Racism

Brown, Lawrence. “The Coronapacalypse: COVID-19 And Racial Segregation.” Hood Communist (blog), April 9, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/09/2757/.

Carabin, François. “La Crise Sanitaire Encourage Le Profilage Racial, Dénonce Une Avocate.” Metro, April 23, 2020. https://journalmetro.com/actualites/montreal/2439898/la-crise-sanitaire-encourage-le-profilage-racial-denonce-une-avocate/.

Dillahunt, Ajamu. “What Covid Tells Us about Racism and Labour Practices in USA.” Daraja Press (blog), April 22, 2020. https://darajapress.com/2020/04/21/racism-usa-covid19.

Duncan, Josh. “Assault of 92-Year-Old Man with Dementia Was a COVID-Related Racially-Motivated Attack: VPD.” Kamloops Now, April 22, 2020. https://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/news/news/Provincial/Assault_of_92_year_old_man_with_dementia_was_a_COVID_related_racially_motivated_attack_VPD/.

Gervais, Lisa-Marie. “Québec Repousse l’offre de Médecins Étrangers.” Le Devoir, April 22, 2020. https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/577474/quebec-repousse-l-offre-de-medecins-etrangers.

Keung, Nicholas. “Black, Latin American and South Asian Canadians Face Biggest Financial Problems Caused by COVID-19, Survey Suggests.” The Star, April 13, 2020. https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2020/04/13/black-latin-american-and-south-asian-canadians-face-biggest-financial-problems-caused-by-covid-19-survey-suggests.html?__twitter_impression=true.

Marfice, Christina. “U.S. Citizens Married To Immigrants Are Blocked From Getting Stimulus Checks.” Yahoo News, April 22, 2020. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-citizens-married-immigrants-blocked-145343198.html.

Pereira, Sydney. “NYC Human Rights Commission Forms COVID-19 Team After Anti-Asian Discrimination Skyrockets.” Gothamist, April 19, 2020. https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-human-rights-commission-forms-covid-19-team-after-anti-asian-discrimination-skyrockets.

Richardson, Lindsay. “Inuit Getting Caught up in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in Montreal, Advocates Say.” APTN News, April 14, 2020. https://aptnnews.ca/2020/04/14/inuit-getting-caught-up-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes-in-montreal-advocates-say/.

Singha, Lotika, and Sarbjit Johal. “Under the Surface: Covid-19 and the Tiered British Domestic Work Industry.” Discover Society, April 23, 2020. https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/23/under-the-surface-covid-19-and-the-tiered-british-domestic-work-industry/.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. “The Effect of the Coronavirus on America’s Black Communities.” The New Yorker, April 16, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-black-plague.

Uddin, Rayhan. “UK Forcing Foreign Health Workers and Their Families to Pay Increased Levy to Use NHS.” Middle East Eye, April 23, 2020. http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-nhs-immigrant-health-workers-pay-increased-surcharge.

Walker, Chris. “Trump’s New HHS Spokesman Tweeted About Chinese People Sucking ‘Blood Out of Rabid Bats.’” Truthout, April 24, 2020. https://truthout.org/articles/hhs-spokesman-tweeted-about-chinese-people-sucking-blood-out-of-rabid-bats/.

Walsh, Marieke. “Trudeau Slams ‘Racism’ of Conservative MP’s Call for Tam to Be Fired.” The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-scheer-refuses-to-comment-on-conservative-mps-call-for-top-doctor-to/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=Referrer%3A+Social+Network+%2F+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links.

Economy

Hanieh, Adam. “When Oil Markets Go Viral.” Versobooks.com, April 8, 2020. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4651-when-oil-markets-go-viral.

Nikiforuk, Andrew. “For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue.” The Tyee. The Tyee, April 18, 2020. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/18/Code-Blue-for-Oil/.

Work News (see also COVID-19: News from the world’s trade unions, LabourStart, https://www.labourstart.org/covid-19.php)

Conley, Julia. “‘Enough Is Enough’: In Largest Strike Yet, Amazon Workers Call In Sick Over Unsafe Working Conditions.” Common Dreams, April 21, 2020. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-largest-strike-yet-amazon-workers-call-sick-over-unsafe-working?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.

Hanna, Jason. “A Grocery Clerk with Cerebral Palsy Died of Coronavirus. She Had Kept Working to Help Seniors.” CNN, April 9, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-leilani-jordan-grocery-worker/index.html.

Common Dreams. “‘Listen… And Take Action’: In Front of White House, Nurses Read Names of Colleagues Who Have Died From Covid-19,” April 21, 2020. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/listen-and-take-action-front-white-house-nurses-read-names-colleagues-who-have-died.

National Nurses United. “Nurses to Protest at White House to Demand OSHA Standard and Mass Production of Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers,” April 20, 2020. https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-protest-white-house-demand-osha-standard-and-mass-production-protective-equipment.

Work In-Depth

Bejan, Raluca. “COVID-19 and Disposable Migrant Workers.” Verfassungsblog (blog), April 16, 2020. https://verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-and-disposable-migrant-workers/.

Bryant, Jeff. “How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Exploiting the Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas.” Alternet.org, April 22, 2020. https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-betsy-devos-and-the-charter-school-movement-are-exploiting-the-pandemic-to-advance-their-agendas/.

Collins, Christopher, and Sophie Novack. “COVID-19 Cases Now Tied to Meat Plants in Rural Texas Counties Wracked with Coronavirus.” The Texas Observer, April 22, 2020. https://www.texasobserver.org/east-texas-coronavirus-chicken/.

teleSUR English. “Delivery Workers Call for a 24-Hours Strike in Seven Countries,” April 22, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Delivery-Workers-Call-for-a-24-Hours-Strike-in-Seven-Countries-20200422-0004.html.

Dryden, Joel, and 2020 1:43 PM MT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago. “What Led to Alberta’s Biggest Outbreak? Cargill Meat Plant’s Hundreds of COVID-19 Cases.” CBC News, April 19, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cargill-alberta-covid-19-deena-hinshaw-1.5537377.

Good Morning America. “Grocery Workers Push to Close Stores to Customers amid Coronavirus Pandemic.” ABC News. Accessed April 21, 2020. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/grocery-workers-push-close-stores-customers-amid-coronavirus-70260537.

teleSUR English. “Guatemala: Discrimination Against Domestic Workers Rises,” April 20, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Discrimination-Against-Domestic-Workers-Rises-20200420-0005.html.

Hanes, Allison. “Quebec Is Now Paying the Price for Undervaluing Caregivers.” Montreal Gazette, April 16, 2020. https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/allison-hanes-quebec-is-now-paying-the-price-for-undervaluing-caregivers/.

Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW). “Open Letter to Workplace Safety Insurance Board Regarding COVID19, Workers Compensation and Migrant Farm Workers (Ontario).” Harvesting Freedom, April 17, 2020. https://harvestingfreedom.org/2020/04/17/open-letter-to-workplace-safety-insurance-board-regarding-covid19-workers-compensation-and-migrant-farm-workers-ontario/.

teleSUR English. “Protests Follow Deaths at US Factories in Mexican Border Town,” April 16, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Protests-Follow-Deaths-at-US-Factories-in-Mexican-Border-Town-20200416-0015.html.

Ramsaroop, Chris, and Kevin Edmonds. “Critical, but Expendable – Migrant Agricultural Workers in the Time of Covid-19.” Stabroek News, April 21, 2020. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/04/21/features/in-the-diaspora/critical-but-expendable-migrant-agricultural-workers-in-the-time-of-covid-19/print/.

Sharp, Alastair. “Bike Couriers in Toronto Risking Illness to Deliver ‘Junk Food to Rich People.’” National Observer, April 20, 2020. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/20/features/bike-couriers-toronto-risking-illness-deliver-junk-food-rich-people.

Tracy, Marc. “News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic.” The New York Times, April 10, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/media/news-media-coronavirus-jobs.html#click=https://t.co/06g44sM8Qu.

teleSUR English. “Whole Foods Uses Map Tool to Track Workers’ Potential Unions,” April 20, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Whole-Foods-Uses-Map-Tool-to-Track-Workers-Potential-Unions-20200420-0017.html.

Workers Health & Safety Centre. “WHSC – COVID-19 Resources.” Accessed April 24, 2020. https://www.whsc.on.ca/Resources/Publications/COVID-19-Resources.

Scrambling for Supplies

Davies, Harry. “Revealed: Private Firm Running UK PPE Stockpile Was Sold in Middle of Pandemic | World News.” The Guardian, April 22, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/revealed-private-firm-running-uk-ppe-stockpile-was-sold-in-middle-of-pandemic?CMP=share_btn_fb.

Morning Star. “Brazilian Communists Sneak in Ventilators to Avoid Confiscation by Bolsonaro or U.S.” People’s World, April 23, 2020. https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/brazilian-communists-sneak-in-ventilators-to-avoid-confiscation-by-bolsonaro-or-u-s/.

Housing & Being without a home

Brown, Lawrence. “The Coronapacalypse: COVID-19 And Racial Segregation.” Hood Communist (blog), April 9, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/09/2757/.

Kines, Lindsay. “Helps Wants B.C. to Seize Hotel Rooms, Put Homeless People in Them.” Times Colonist, April 16, 2020. https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/helps-wants-b-c-to-seize-hotel-rooms-put-homeless-people-in-them-1.24118738.

Moore, Oliver. “Refugee Shelter in Toronto Sees Jump in COVID-19 Cases from 11 to 74, Many with No Symptoms.” The Globe and Mail, April 20, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-refugee-shelter-in-toronto-sees-jump-in-covid-19-cases-from-11-to-7/.

Google Docs. “Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of Covid-19,” April 22, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EK9MSBySLHLk9aqADj2k3i5Z7RD-fKpLdAVplKBFw8w/edit.

The Clampdown

International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. “Call for Human Rights Oversight of Government Responses to COVID-19.” International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (blog), April 15, 2020. https://iclmg.ca/human-rights-covid-19/.

Muller, Sean. “South Africa’s One-Sided Lockdown: Coercing the Poor, Coddling the Rich?” Africa Is A Country, April 17, 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/south-africas-one-sided-lockdown-coercing-the-poor-coddling-the-rich.

Musahar, N. R. “India’s Starvation Measures.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/india-s-starvation-measures.

Google Docs. “Stand Up For Our Communities! Stop Expanding Police Powers!” Accessed April 24, 2020. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsvfFCfqwAyGj4H7HNRIrtaHxe2klEJ9vV4DlgXD9s92vJoQ/viewform?usp=embed_facebook.

Valiante, Giuseppe. “Harsh Fines and Policing Don’t Protect People from COVID-19, Criminologists Say.” Global News, April 15, 2020. https://globalnews.ca/news/6825280/coronavirus-harsh-policing-fines/.

Agence France-Presse. “Violence and Looting Point to Food Crisis in S.Africa Lockdown,” April 18, 2020. https://this.kiji.is/624208867263808609.

Walia, Harsha. “Our Civil Liberties Matter during Crises.” Vancouver Sun, April 18, 2020. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/harsha-walia-our-civil-liberties-matter-during-crises.

Confined in the Age of COVID-19 (see also: https://perilouschronicle.com/list-of-events-by-date/)

Boynton, Sean. “Issues Continue to Plague Coronavirus-Ravaged B.C. Prison, Officers’ Union Says.” Global News, April 18, 2020. https://globalnews.ca/news/6837283/coronavirus-mission-institution-issues-officers/.

Byung-Moon, Bin. “‘There’s No Such Thing as Social Distancing in Here’: An Inmate Tells His Story.” Toronto Life, April 3, 2020. https://torontolife.com/city/theres-no-such-thing-as-social-distancing-in-here-an-inmate-tells-his-story/.

Canadian Press. “Coronavirus: Quebec Federal Inmates File Application for Class-Action Lawsuit.” Global News, April 17, 2020. https://globalnews.ca/news/6847470/quebec-coronavirus-federal-inmates-lawsuit/.

Chappell, Bill. “73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus.” NPR.org, April 20, 2020. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/20/838943211/73-of-inmates-at-an-ohio-prison-test-positive-for-coronavirus.

teleSUR English. “Colombia: 40 New COVID-19 Cases in the Villavicencio Prison,” April 22, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-40-New-COVID-19-Cases-in-the-Villavicencio-Prison-20200422-0013.html.

“Demonstration in Solidarity with Inmates at Barton Street Jail.” The Hamilton Spectator, April 13, 2020, sec. Hamilton Region. https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2020/04/13/demonstration-in-solidarity-with-inmates-at-barton-street-jail.html.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. “Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition.” haymarketbooks.org, April 17, 2020. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/128-ruth-wilson-gilmore-on-covid-19-decarceration-and-abolition.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. “Protect and Free Prisoners During COVID-19.” Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, April 15, 2020. https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/protect-and-free-prisoners-during-covid-19.

Jackson, Angie. “Michigan Man Who Died of COVID-19 in Prison Was Weeks from Parole.” Detroit Free Press, April 18, 2020. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/18/michigan-prisons-coronavirus-infections-deaths-william-garrison/5156073002/.

Johnston, Janice. “Edmonton Institution Inmate Alleges Abuse behind Bars during Pandemic.” CBC News, April 16, 2020. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/edmonton-institution-inmate-alleges-abuse-behind-bars-during-pandemic/ar-BB12IPbR.

———. “Punishment Reversed for Edmonton Institution Inmate Who Spoke to Media.” CBC News, April 15, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/punishment-reversed-for-edmonton-institution-inmate-who-spoke-to-media-1.5533459?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar.

Kerr, Lisa. “Coronavirus in Prisons: How and Why to Release Inmates in a Pandemic.” The Conversation. Accessed April 24, 2020. http://theconversation.com/coronavirus-in-prisons-how-and-why-to-release-inmates-in-a-pandemic-136676.

Lacy, Akela, Alice Speri, Jordan Smith, and Sam Biddle. “Prisons Launch ‘Absurd’ Attempt to Detect Coronavirus in Inmate Phone Calls.” The Intercept (blog), April 21, 2020. https://theintercept.com/2020/04/21/prisons-inmates-coronavirus-monitoring-surveillance-verus/.

Ling, Justin. “#320 Coronavirus Is In Our Prisons And Trudeau Is Doing Nothing.” Canadaland, April 6, 2020. https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/320-coronavirus-is-in-our-prisons-and-trudeau-is-doing-nothing/.

———. “Inside the Canadian Prison Hardest Hit by the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Vice, April 21, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/4agjyq/inside-the-canadian-prison-hardest-hit-by-the-coronavirus-pandemic.

———. “Tear Gas Launcher Deployed as Coronavirus Tensions Spiral in Canadian Prisons.” Vice, April 24, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3a8343/tear-gas-launcher-deployed-as-coronavirus-tensions-spiral-in-canadian-prisons?utm_campaign=sharebutton.

Metcalfe, J. “PLS Urges Minister Blair to Depopulate Prisoners with Low Public Safety Risk.” West Coast Prison Justice Society (blog), April 10, 2020. https://prisonjustice.org/pls-urges-minister-blair-to-depopulate-prisoners-with-low-public-safety-risk/.

NBC4 WCMH-TV. “More than 1,800 Inmates at Marion Prison Test Positive for Coronavirus,” April 19, 2020. https://www.nbc4i.com/community/health/coronavirus/more-than-1800-inmates-at-marion-prison-test-positive-for-coronavirus/.

WeCopwatch. “Ramsey Orta Has Fallen Sick After Officers Threaten To Give Him Covid-19,” April 19, 2020. https://wecopwatch.org/ramsey-orta-has-fallen-sick-after-officers-threaten-to-give-him-covid-19/.

WeCopwatch. “Ramsey Orta’s Life Is Being Threatened by C.O’s at Midstate Correctional Facility!,” April 15, 2020. https://wecopwatch.org/ramsey-ortas-life-is-being-threatened-by-c-os-at-midstate-correctional-facility/.

Ready for Revolution. “The Vulnerability of Prisoners amidst a Global Health Crisis.” Hood Communist (blog), April 23, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/23/the-vulnerability-of-prisoners-amidst-a-global-health-crisis/.

Rye, Lyn. “The Courts Won’t Free Migrant Children Because of COVID-19. We Must.” Truthout, April 24, 2020. https://truthout.org/articles/the-courts-wont-free-migrant-children-because-of-covid-19-we-must/.

Canadian Human Rights Commission. “Statement: Release Low-Risk Inmates to Slow Spread of COVID-19 in Prisons,” April 15, 2020. https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/statement-release-low-risk-inmates-slow-spread-covid-19-prisons.

The Globe and Mail. “A Pandemic in Prisons Forces a Rethink of Why so Many Are behind Bars.” The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-a-pandemic-in-prisons-forces-a-rethink-of-why-so-many-are-behind-bars/.

Theodore, Terri. “COVID-19: Doctors Say Governments Should Release as Many Inmates as Possible.” CTV News, April 7, 2020. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-doctors-say-governments-should-release-as-many-inmates-as-possible-1.4887159.

Surveillance

The Conversation. “Australian Police Are Using the Clearview AI Facial Recognition System with No Accountability,” March 3, 2020. https://theconversation.com/australian-police-are-using-the-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-system-with-no-accountability-132667.

Gurman, Mark. “Apple, Google Covid-19 Contact Tracing to Require Verification.” Yahoo News, April 13, 2020. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-google-covid-19-contact-221757927.html.

Macleod, Alan. “Google’s Dystopian Crisis Tracking Could Be Straight out of George Orwell’s 1984.” MintPress News (blog), April 8, 2020. https://www.mintpressnews.com/google-coronavirus-tracking-privacy/266453/.

Dying to Go Back to Work: Premature Reopening

Goodman, Amy, and Nermeen Shaikh. “Infectious Disease Expert Warns Against Reopening States Too Soon.” Truthout, April 23, 2020. https://truthout.org/video/infectious-disease-expert-warns-against-reopening-states-too-soon/.

International

Murphy, R. Taggart. “East and West.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/r-taggart-murphy-east-and-west-76ba12e6-a597-495b-83c6-6e56479ebc5c.

Thomas, Kendrick. “The U.S. Is Using COVID-19 for Imperialist Propaganda.” Hood Communist (blog), April 16, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/16/no-shame-4-ways-the-u-s-is-using-covid-19-to-push-imperialist-propaganda/.

Africa

Broadway, Sam. “Uganda’s People Power in the Age of COVID-19.” Africa Is A Country, April 20, 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/people-power-in-the-age-of-covid-19.

Crush, Jonathan. “Will COVID-19 Keep out of Africa?” Africa Is A Country, April 16, 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/will-covid-19-keep-out-of-africa.

teleSUR English. “Nigeria: Police Brutality Is More Lethal Than COVID-19,” April 17, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/nigeria-police-brutality-is-more-lethal-than-covid19-20200417-0001.html.

Shoki, William. “Out of Sight.” Africa Is A Country, April 21, 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/out-of-sight.

Democracy Now! “South African Troops to Enforce Quarantine in Largest Mobilization Since Apartheid Era,” April 23, 2020. https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/23/headlines/south_african_troops_to_enforce_quarantine_in_largest_mobilization_since_apartheid_era.

Agence France-Presse. “Violence and Looting Point to Food Crisis in S.Africa Lockdown,” April 18, 2020. https://this.kiji.is/624208867263808609.

Europe

Bejan, Raluca. “COVID-19 and Disposable Migrant Workers.” Verfassungsblog (blog), April 16, 2020. https://verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-and-disposable-migrant-workers/.

Middle East and North Africa

Ameli, Vira. “Sanctions and Sickness.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/vira-ameli-sanctions-and-sickness.

Munif, Yasser. “Covid19 and Popular Struggles of Syria.” Daraja Press (blog), April 22, 2020. https://darajapress.com/2020/04/22/covid19-and-popular-struggles-of-syria.

Nithya, G. N. “‘Between the Rock of the Occupation, and the Hammer of Coronavirus.’” The Bullet, April 19, 2020. https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/between-rock-of-occupation-and-hammer-of-coronavirus/.

North America and Caribbean

Hammond, Charlotte. “‘The Question Was Whether to Die of Hunger or Coronavirus’: Garment Factories Reopen in Haiti despite Fears.” Haiti Support Group. Accessed April 23, 2020. https://haitisupportgroup.org/garment-factories-reopen-haiti-covid19/.

Quebec

CBC News. “Cancer, Dialysis Patients Infected as COVID-19 Sweeps through Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital,” April 21, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sacr%C3%A9-c%C5%93ur-de-montr%C3%A9al-hospital-montreal-covid-19-1.5540492.

Langlois, Sophie. “La Dre Joanne Liu écartée par Québec car on la craignait «?incontrôlable?».” Radio-Canada. Radio-Canada.ca, April 19, 2020. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1695332/coronavirus-reponse-quebec-liu-experts-msf.

Richer, Jules. “Aînés Affamés et Déshydratés: «ils Ont Crevé de Faim».” Journal de Montréal, April 23, 2020. https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/04/23/aines-affames-et-deshydrates.

Canada

———. “Coronavirus: Quebec Federal Inmates File Application for Class-Action Lawsuit.” Global News, April 17, 2020. https://globalnews.ca/news/6847470/quebec-coronavirus-federal-inmates-lawsuit/.

International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. “Joint Statement: Digital Surveillance Technologies and COVID-19 in Canada.” International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (blog), April 15, 2020. https://iclmg.ca/digital-surveillance-covid-19/.

PCR-RCP. “COVID-19, the Canadian State, and Global Capitalism.” Revolutionary Communist Party (blog), March 25, 2020. http://www.pcrrcp.ca/en/6124.

Indigenous Americas

Norrell, BS. “Navajo Nation Coronavirus Cases Increase to 1,042, with 41 Deaths, as Weekend Curfew Extended.” Censored News (blog), April 17, 2020. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/04/navajo-nation-coronavirus-cases_17.html.

U.S.

Brown, Lawrence. “The Coronapacalypse: COVID-19 And Racial Segregation.” Hood Communist (blog), April 9, 2020. http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/04/09/2757/.

Dillahunt, Ajamu. “What Covid Tells Us about Racism and Labour Practices in USA.” Daraja Press (blog), April 22, 2020. https://darajapress.com/2020/04/21/racism-usa-covid19.

Finnegan, Connor. “75% of Migrants Deported to Guatemala on Single Flight Tested Positive for Coronavirus: Health Minister.” ABC News, April 15, 2020. https://abcnews.go.com/International/75-migrants-deported-guatemala-single-flight-tested-positive/story?id=70156471.

Hicks, Nolan. “Most NYC Coronavirus Testing Done in Wealthiest Zip Codes: Analysis.” NY Post, April 16, 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/most-nyc-coronavirus-testing-done-in-wealthiest-zip-codes-analysis/.

McNeil, Donald G. Jr. “The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead.” The New York Times, April 18, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/coronavirus-america-future.html.

Miller, Stetson. “‘It’s A Blessing’: Baltimore’s Arabbers Distribute Food To Residents In Need Amid Coronavirus Pandemic – CBS Baltimore.” CBS Baltimore, April 21, 2020. https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-help-baltimore-arabbers-latest/.

Morris, Frank. “Missouri Sues China, Communist Party Over The Coronavirus Pandemic.” NPR.org, April 21, 2020. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/21/840550059/missouri-sues-china-communist-party-over-the-coronavirus-pandemic?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com.

Santa Cruz, Nicole. “Coronavirus: L.A. Gang Intervention Workers Are Lifelines for Communities.” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2020. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-19/coronavirus-gang-intervention-workers.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. “The Effect of the Coronavirus on America’s Black Communities.” The New Yorker, April 16, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-black-plague.

South and Central America

teleSUR English. “Bolivia: Social Leaders Denounce Gov’t for Rights Violations,” April 22, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-social-leaders-denounce-government-for-hr-violations-20200422-0003.html.

teleSUR English. “Chile: Social Leaders Demand Real Emergency Aid For COVID-19,” April 21, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/chile-social-leaders-demand-real-emergency-aid-for-covid19-20200421-0004.html.

teleSUR English. “Chile: Teachers Reject Resuming School Year Over COVID-19,” April 20, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/chile-teachers-rejects–school-year-restart-amid–the-pandemic-20200420-0002.html.

teleSUR English. “Colombia: Duque’s Administration Disrespect Health Workers,” April 17, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-government-mocks-its-doctors-health-specialists-said-20200417-0003.html.

teleSUR English. “Colombia: Protests Breakout Due to Lack of Food Aid,” April 22, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-protests-over-lack-of-food-aid-amidst-quarantine-20200422-0012.html.

Conti, Mario Sergio. “Pandemonium in Brazil.” New Left Review, April 2020. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/mario-sergio-conti-pandemonium-in-brazil.

teleSUR English. “El Salvador: Bukele Imposes Total Closure of Municipality,” April 20, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/el-salvador-bukele-imposes-total-closure-in-municipality-20200420-0008.html.

teleSUR English. “Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population’s Health at Risk,” April 18, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Police-Put-Cochabamba-Populations-Health-at-Risk-20200418-0005.html.

teleSUR English. “Guatemala: Social Organizations Dennounces Massive Layoffs,” April 17, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/guatemala-social-organizations-dennounces-massive-layoffs-20200417-0009.html.

teleSUR English. “Hunger Protests Grow in Colombia Amid Coronavirus Lockdown,” April 22, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Hunger-Protests-Grow-in-Colombia-Amid-Coronavirus-Lockdown-20200422-0026.html.

“‘Let Young People Live’ to Become Brazil’s Healthcare Logic.” TeleSUR English, April 17, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Let-Young-People-Live-to-Become-Brazils-Healthcare-Logic-20200417-0002.html.

Events

Multi-City Caravan Against Imprisonment, April 26, 12pm-5pm, across Canada, For those looking to join the Tio’tia:ke / Montreal event, please message anticarceralgroup@riseup.net; For those looking to join the Algonquin Territory / Ottawa event, please message cpep.action@gmail.com; Vancouver https://www.facebook.com/events/1145408909134769; Toronto https://www.facebook.com/events/290164021976097/; Please message Anti-Carceral Group to add your city’s contact info to this event

Institute for Anarchist Studies. “Call for Submissions: Perspectives on Anarchist Theory / Special Issue: ‘Pandemics from the Bottom Up,’” April 7, 2020. https://anarchiststudies.org/call-for-submissions-perspectives-on-anarchist-theory-special-issue-pandemics-from-the-bottom-up/.

Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Use. “Indigenous Knowledge & Abolition.” Facebook, April 30, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/events/345679286397980.

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Scrambling for Supplies

Housing & Being without a home

The Clampdown

Confined in the Age of COVID-19 (see also: https://perilouschronicle.com/list-of-events-by-date/)

Surveillance

Dying to Go Back to Work: Premature Reopening

International

Africa

Europe

Middle East and North Africa

North America and Caribbean

Quebec

Canada

Indigenous Americas

U.S.

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