March 28 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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Care & Getting By

• Solidarity, Collective Responsibility, and Shared Humanity, by Griffin Payne, March 26, https://medium.com/@griffin.payne/solidarity-collective-responsibility-and-shared-humanity-5562d2ce497a
• COVID-19 pandemic: A Crisis of Care, by The Care Collective, 26 March, https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4617-covid-19-pandemic-a-crisis-of-care

 

Analysis

• Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilisation: A bubble has finally been burst – but will we now attend to the other threats facing humanity?, George Monbiot, The Guardian 25 March, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/covid-19-is-natures-wake-up-call-to-complacent-civilisation
• Coronavirus, by Raoul Vaneigem, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-coronavirus
• COVID-19: events reveal that we are in the antechamber of socialism, ISKRA March 2, https://www.iskra-pcr-rcp.ca/en/2020/03/23/covid-19-events-reveal-that-we-are-in-the-antechamber-of-socialism/
• This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such, Adam Hanieh on the COVID-19 pandemic, https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4623-this-is-a-global-pandemic-let-s-treat-it-as-such
• The Coronavirus and the Crisis of Global Capitalism, by William I Robinson, Mutiny 26 March, https://www.timetomutiny.org/post/the-coronavirus-and-the-crisis-of-global-capitalism
• Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China, Chuang February, http://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion
• The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism, Debs Bruno and Medway Baker, Cosmonaut March 26, https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/03/26/the-end-of-the-end-of-history-covid-19-and-21st-century-fascism
• The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal, by Joe Pinsker, March 26, https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-social-distancing-over-back-to-normal/608752/
• One Question: COVID-19 and Capitalism, State of Nature 27th March, Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes with answers by Cinzia Arruzza; Neel Ahuja; Neil Faulkner; Seiji Yamada; Helen Yaffe; Michael Roberts; Sandro Mezzadra; Lindsey German; Dario Azzellini; Jodi Dean, http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-covid19-coronavirus-capitalism
• COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital, by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace, Monthly Review March 27, https://monthlyreview.org/2020/03/27/covid-19-and-circuits-of-capital/
• The Rise of the Party of Death, by Peter Frase, Jacobin, https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/coronavirus-economy-public-health-exterminism

Racism

• Asian Americans report over 650 racist acts over last week, new data says, by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil,
• NBC March 26, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-report-nearly-500-racist-acts-over-last-week-n1169821
• Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety, by Sabrina Tavernise and Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times March 23, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html

Work

• No Masks, No Hand Sanitizer, Filthy Facilities: A Sick UPS Worker Speaks Out, by Sarah Jones, March 26, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/sick-worker-says-ups-puts-profits-over-people.html

 

The Clampdown

• DOJ Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely, Marjorie Cohn, Truthout March 27, https://truthout.org/articles/doj-seeks-to-exploit-coronavirus-emergency-to-detain-people-indefinitely/

Far Right

• Fascists Impersonate Climate Group to Say Coronavirus is Good for Earth, by Ben Makuch, Vice March 25, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jmmx/fascists-impersonate-climate-group-to-say-coronavirus-is-good-for-earth
• The Coronavirus-Denial Movement Now Has a Leader: Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has lashed out against local officials who have implemented severe lockdowns, accusing them of destroying the country, Uri Friedman, The Atlantic March 27, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/bolsonaro-coronavirus-denial-brazil-trump/608926
• As world struggles to stop deaths, far right celebrates COVID-19, by Michael Colborne, Al Jazeera 26 March, https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/world-struggles-stop-deaths-celebrates-covid-19-200326165545387.html
• White Supremacists See Coronavirus as an Opportunity, SPLC March 26, by Cassie Miller, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/26/white-supremacists-see-coronavirus-opportunity
• Humans Are Not The Virus—Don’t Be An Eco-Fascist, Sherronda J. Brown, We Are Your Voice March 27, https://wearyourvoicemag.com/news-politics/humans-are-not-the-virus-eco-fascist

Confined in the Age of COVID-19

• Coronavirus Fears Spark Prison Strikes, Protests, and Riots Around the World, Intelligencer March 27, by Zak Cheney-Rice, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/coronavirus-fears-spark-prison-unrest-worldwide.html
• Demands from Stevie, March 25, https://abolitioniststudy.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/demands-from-stevie
• COVID-19 Behind Bars (map) https://covid19behindbars.com/
• Un premier détenu atteint de la COVID-19 en prison, La Presse 26 mars, Daniel Renaud, https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/202003/26/01-5266597-un-premier-detenu-atteint-de-la-covid-19-en-prison.php
• Senator calls for inmate release to prevent potential prison COVID-19 ‘disaster’, by Rachel Ward, CBC News March 25, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/senator-calls-release-inmates-covid-19-1.5509086
• All Prisoners Are Political Prisoners: Rethinking the Campaign to #FreeThemAll Beyond Borders and Beyond COVID-19, by Golnar Nikpour, Jadaliyya March 25, https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40865

 

 

Quebec

• MTL COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resource List // Mobilisation d’entraide liste des ressources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PgbUR1gT1PKIDPJFuWXhqieFLY7TAxxl4r_9dsaB05w/editand link to add info: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-XBgn1HXA-lPPtCPFQSUqr_H1tViUkHk8KpkCbV-MJ4h4RQ/viewform
• COVID19: Des mesures d’urgences requises pour la population autochtone en situation d’itinérance à Montréal, https://mailchi.mp/exeko/covid19_reseua_exeko
• Québec paiera pour les sans-papiers, Lisa-Marie Gervais, Le Devoir 27 mars, https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/575868/covid-19-la-gratuite-pour-les-sans-papiers-demandent-des-organismes

 

Canada

• Organizations who need help during COVID-19 : NEEDS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WNpOcyOpqO8ed9h37THfgUK2nbrXg0DLJf0rYzjg4ws/htmlview?

 

International

• CPI Maoist Condemn Government Of India For Insufficient Response To COVID-19 Pandemic, March 25, https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/cpi-maoist-condemn-government-of-india-for-insufficient-response-to-covid-19-pandemic/
• Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You: Why is Venezuela doing so much better than its neighbors in the region?, by Leonardo Flores, Common Dreams March 25, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/25/venezuelas-coronavirus-response-might-surprise-you
• ‘Hunger Can Kill Us Before the Virus’: Migrant Workers on the March During Lockdown, The Wire 27 March, by Kabir Agarwal, https://thewire.in/labour/coronavirus-lockdown-migrant-workers-walking-home
• Dispatch #4 From Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid, March 27, IJV Canada, https://www.ijvcanada.org/dispatch-4-from-palestine-on-covid-19-curfews-and-mutual-aid/

U.S.

• Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus, by Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica March 26, https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus
• COVID-19 survey of New York CIty residents: Job loss in NYC disproportionately impacts Hispanics and lower income city residents, CUNY March 24, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324102718.htm

 

Science

• Misrepresenting traditional knowledge during COVID-19 is dangerous: Indigenous scholars say claims of herbal cures amounts to malpractice, by Rosalyn LaPier and Abaki Beck, High Country News  March 23, https://www.hcn.org/articles/covid19-misrepresenting-traditional-knowledge-during-covid-19-is-dangerous
• COVID-19 transmission: What we know, Japan Times, by Faye Flam, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/28/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-transmission-know
• 8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here’s what clues they’re giving scientists,  by Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY March 28, https://www.yahoo.com/news/8-strains-coronavirus-circling-globe-182338255.html

 

Bonus

• Watch The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY
• Take Faith This Will All Burn soon, A Quaran-Zine, by Briana L. Ureña Ravelo, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZVGPZDT8YDyY73E0HmCeXv87PMCCmPqg/view?fbclid=IwAR2rfESmvspEeY0DK1WKB5CPNPl5S3rLGnTA2IkWg657mDBK0JfqRo5WyEE
• The Byline Times: https://bylinetimes.com/