March 29 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

 

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Ableism

 

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The Clampdown

  • We Can’t Police the Pandemic, SATURDAY MARCH 28, 2020 1-3pm, A conversation to address alternatives to policing COVID-19 with a vision for abolition of police. This is the first in a series of dialogues for action to help inform a plan for ongoing organizing and resistance. Speakers: Cécile Kazatchkine, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network/HIV Justice Worldwide; Zoë Dodd, Toronto Overdose Prevention Society, Syrus Marcus Ware, Black Lives Matter Toronto, Maureen Owino, Committee for Accessible HIV/AIDS Treatments, Sandra Wesley, Stella; El Jones, abolition activist and scholar; Colin Hastings, York University; Theodore (ted) Kerr, What Would an HIV Doula Do?; Alexander McClelland, University of Ottawa; Mikiki Mikiki, Queers Crash the Beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6s_FZu9F1s&feature=youtu.be

 

Confined in the Age of COVID-19

 

solidarity with migrants detained by Canada  https://facebook.com/events/2559090111032271

  • call Federal Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair (613-995-0284) and Federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marco Mendocino  (613-954-1064) to say
  • Ten migrant detainees at the Laval Immigration Detention Centre are on hunger strike to demand their release. The situation is urgent and demands  immediate action to ensure their safety.
  • Locking people inside this facility and taking away their freedom is unjustifiable to begin with, but to force people to remain inside in the  midst of a pandemic is beyond unjust, it’s dangerous for everyone
  • I am asking for the immediate release of everyone currently detained and decent and safe housing for all of the people who are released.
  • I am also asking for an end to new detentions

 

Campaign to release vulnerable prisoners in New York state

“release elders and other vulnerable people in state prisons before  COVID-19 inevitably swamps those facilities”

https://counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/fighting-the-cuomo-virus-to-free-imprisoned-elders

Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)  http://rappcampaign.com

 

Palestine: ask Trudeau to “ADD aid for Gaza and other extremely vulnerable  international communities, including refugees, to ADD aid for Canada’s  migrant and undocumented workers, to ADD aid for those under immigration  authority, to ADD aid for Canada’s poor and marginalized.”  https://www.cjpme.org/dont_forget   “demand Israeli authorities take immediate action to release all  Palestinian child detainees in Israeli prisons due to the rapid global  spread of the COVID-19 virus.”  https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/petition_israel_must_release_all_palestinian_child_detainees_amid_covid_19_pandemic

“Palestine on Wednesday [March 25] urged Israel to immediately release over 5,000 Palestinian prisoners [“, including around 300 children,”] from  its jails amidst an outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.”  https://telesurenglish.net/news/Palestine-Demands-Israel-Release-Prisoners-Amid-Virus-Outbreak-20200325-0004.html

 

“The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced that prisoners plan to close their sections and return meals on Friday and Saturday, 20 and 21 March, in protest against the punitive measures carried out against them in the name of infection control while they are denied real resources to help  prevent the spread of coronavirus.  Palestinian prisoners are instead demanding full sterilization, disinfection and cleaning of the prisons as well as proper health treatment for all detainees.”  https://samidoun.net/2020/03/israeli-apartheid-covid-19-and-palestinian-prisoners-freedom-now see also http://addameer.org and  http://mhpss.ps/en/organization/the-palestinian-prisoners-society/MJEN2Ysg-hs

 

Quebec

 

Canada

 

International

 

U.S.

 

Science

 

 

 

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