April 9 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

Resources

Google Docs. “Aide Financière Pour Les Travailleuses.Eurs Du Sexe Au Temps Du COVID-19.” Accessed April 6, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lOk1QGGCapaVPuTLJSe2DLHg2p8fRQn/view.

Google Docs. “Foire Aux Questions – Emploi et Logement.” Accessed April 7, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB0nTKNJJXesh8txqPJTt0s2clYySTAZfR8l3PWzYvI/edit.

Analysis & Commentary

Bjork-James, Carwil, and Chuck Munson. “An Anarchist Response to Ebola.” The Anarchist Library, 2014. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carwil-bjork-james-chuck-munson-an-anarchist-response-to-ebola.

Hameed, Yavar. “Defining a Space for Resistance: Countering the Disempowering Effects of Social Distancing.” Canadian Dimension, March 30, 2020. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/defining-a-space-for-resistance-countering-the-disempowering-effects-of-social-distancing.

How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0.

Eventbrite. “How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism (Part 2).” Accessed April 9, 2020. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/101641592740.

Naidoo, Kiasha. “How COVID-19 Reveals the Paradoxes of Neoliberal Logic.” Africa Is A Country, April 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/how-covid-19-reveals-the-paradoxes-of-neoliberal-logic.

Shaikh, Anwar. “‘The Fundamental Questions About Capitalism Seem to Be Coming Back.’” Jacobin, April 2020. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/anwar-shaikh-interview-capitalism-competition-conflict-crises.

Tarnfoff, Ben. “These Are Conditions in Which Revolution Becomes Thinkable | Ben Tarnoff.” Commune (blog), April 7, 2020. https://communemag.com/these-are-conditions-in-which-revolution-becomes-thinkable/.

Ableism

Coleman, Diane. “As the Threat of Triage Grows, Disability Rights Advocacy Is Needed More Than Ever.” Not Dead Yet (blog), April 6, 2020. http://notdeadyet.org/2020/04/as-the-threat-of-triage-grows-disability-rights-advocacy-is-needed-more-than-ever.html.

Gender

Facebook. “Covid-19 En El Salvador: A Critical Feminist View (Translated),” April 7, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/cispes.solidarity.page/posts/3137802892906029.

Facebook. “Covid-19 En El Salvador: Miradas Críticas y Feministas,” April 3, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/notes/resistencia-medio-alternativo/covid-19-en-el-salvador-miradas-cr%C3%ADticas-y-feministas/154082849407032.

Center for Feminist Foreign Policy. “Feminist Resources on the Pandemic.” Accessed April 6, 2020. https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/feminist-resources-on-the-pandemic.

Women Cross DMZ. “Statement for a Feminist Foreign Policy to Confront the Coronavirus Pandemic,” April 5, 2020. https://www.womencrossdmz.org/statement-for-a-feminist-foreign-policy-to-confront-the-coronavirus-pandemic/.

Racism (see also Health Disparities)

Alfonso, Fernando III. “Why Some People of Color Say They Won’t Wear Homemade Masks.” CNN, April 7, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/face-masks-ethnicity-coronavirus-cdc-trnd/index.html.

Curtis, Chelsea. “Police: Man Arrested for Urging Killing of Navajo People He Thought Infected with COVID-19.” AZ Central, April 7, 2020. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2020/04/07/police-man-arrested-urging-killing-navajo-people-he-thought-infected-covid-19/2964960001/.

Jones, El. “Daily COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus Hits the Black Community, with a Predictable Racist Response.” Halifax Examiner, April 7, 2020. https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/daily-covid-19-update-covid-19-hits-the-black-community-with-a-predictable-racist-response/.

Ke, Bryan. “Asian Woman Suffers Burns After Being Doused With ‘Unknown Substance’ Outside Her NYC Home.” Nextshark, April 7, 2020. https://nextshark.com/new-york-asian-woman-doused-brooklyn.

Health Disparities

Alfonso, Fernando III. “Why Some People of Color Say They Won’t Wear Homemade Masks.” CNN, April 7, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/face-masks-ethnicity-coronavirus-cdc-trnd/index.html.

Brown, Lawrence. “The Coronapacalypse: Why COVID-19 Targets Redlined Black Neighborhoods in Hypersegregated Cities.” Medium, April 7, 2020. https://medium.com/@BmoreDoc/the-coronapacalypse-why-covid-19-targets-redlined-black-neighborhoods-in-hypersegregated-cities-cdea3edfea.

Mueller, Benjamin. “Eight U.K. Doctors Died From Coronavirus. All Were Immigrants.” The New York Times, April 8, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-doctors-immigrants.html.

Ossei-Owusu, Shaun. “Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability.” Boston Review, April 8, 2020. http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race-politics/shaun-ossei-owusu-coronavirus-and-politics-disposability.

Poston, Ben, Tony Barboza, and Angel Jennings. “L.A. African Americans Have Higher Coronavirus Death Rate.” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2020. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-07/l-a-releases-first-racial-breakdown-of-coronavirus-fatalities-african-americans-have-higher-death-rate.

Reed, Adolph Jr. “Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine.” Common Dreams, April 4, 2020. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/04/disparity-ideology-coronavirus-and-danger-return-racial-medicine.

Far Right

DeCook, Julia. “Coronavirus and the Radical Right: Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Xenophobia.” openDemocracy, March 13, 2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/coronavirus-and-radical-right-conspiracy-disinformation-and-xenophobia.

O’Brien, Luke. “Far-Right Extremists Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology.” HuffPost Canada, April 7, 2020. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48.

Temperton, James. “How the 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Tore through the Internet.” Wired UK, April 6, 2020. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory.

Economy

BBC News. “Coronavirus: Four out of Five People’s Jobs Hit by Pandemic,” April 7, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52199888.

ILO. “ILO: COVID-19 Causes Devastating Losses in Working Hours and Employment.” Press release, April 7, 2020. http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_740893/lang–en/index.htm.

Michael Roberts Blog. “Lives or Livelihoods?,” April 6, 2020. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/lives-or-livelihoods/.

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

Akhtar, Allana. “HCA Healthcare Suspends Nurse Who Spoke out about Coronavirus.” Business Insider, April 7, 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/hca-healthcare-suspends-nurse-who-spoke-out-about-coronavirus-2020-4 .

Canadian Press. “Walmart Canada to Hire 10,000 Workers and Introduce Other Measures amid COVID-19.” CTV News, March 20, 2020. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/walmart-canada-to-hire-10-000-workers-and-introduce-other-measures-amid-covid-19-1.4861474.

Duchaine, Gabriel, Ariane Lacoursière, and Philippe Teisceira-Lessard. “Incités à travailler malgré des symptômes.” La Presse, April 8, 2020. https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/202004/08/01-5268492-incites-a-travailler-malgre-des-symptomes.php.

Elk, Mike. “COVID-19 Strike Wave Interactive Map.” Payday Report (blog), April 7, 2020. https://paydayreport.com/covid-19-strike-wave-interactive-map/.

Maass, Allan. “Chicago Amazon Workers Picket with Supporters—and Their Cars.” Labor Notes, April 6, 2020. https://labornotes.org/2020/04/chicago-amazon-workers-picket-supporters%E2%80%94and-their-cars.

Monsebraaten, Laurie. “Evicted during the Pandemic, a Toronto Nurse Pleads for Fairness | The Star.” Toronto Star, April 5, 2020. https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2020/04/05/evicted-during-the-pandemic-a-toronto-nurse-pleads-for-fairness.html.

Murphy, Paul P., Ryan Young, and Jake Carpenter. “Detroit Hospital Nurses Refuse to Work without More Help, Ordered to Leave.” CNN, April 7, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/detroit-nurses-sinai-grace-coronavirus/index.html.

Tomesco, Frédéric. “Coronavirus: Dollarama Workers Decry Working Conditions.” Montreal Gazette, April 6, 2020. https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/coronavirus-dollarama-workers-decry-working-conditions.

Work In-Depth

Cole, Matthew. “Why Silicon Valley Loves Coronavirus.” Tribune Mag, March 25, 2020. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/why-silicon-valley-loves-coronavirus.

Shaffer, Blake, and Trevor Tombe. “Opinion: Alberta’s Government Is Using Coronavirus as a Shield for Laying off Education Workers.” The Globe and Mail, April 5, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-albertas-government-is-using-coronavirus-as-a-shield-for-laying-off/.

Scrambling for Supplies

Bradley, Jane. “In Scramble for Coronavirus Supplies, Rich Countries Push Poor Aside.” The New York Times, April 9, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/world/coronavirus-equipment-rich-poor.html.

Mughrabi, Nidal al-. “Gaza Runs out of Coronavirus Tests, Palestinian Health Officials Say.” Reuters, April 8, 2020. https://news.yahoo.com/gaza-runs-coronavirus-tests-palestinian-171108417.html.

Housing

Warburton, Moira, and Denise Paglinawan. “Rent Strikes Loom Across Canada as Coronavirus Kills Daily-Wage Jobs | Investing News | US News.” US News, April 6, 2020. https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2020-04-06/rent-strikes-loom-across-canada-as-coronavirus-kills-daily-wage-jobs.

The Clampdown

Hayes, Molly. “City of Ottawa Accused of Going Too Far with Ticketing Blitz to Enforce Physical Distancing Rules.” The Globe and Mail, April 6, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-city-of-ottawa-accused-of-going-too-far-with-ticketing-blitz-to/.

Nguyen, Michael, and Félix Séguin. “Boisbriand?: Manifestation de Mécontentement Par Les Juifs Orthodoxes Confinés.” Journal de Montréal, April 7, 2020. https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/04/07/boisbriand–manifestation-de-mecontentement-par-les-juifs-orthodoxes-confines.

Confined in the Age of COVID-19

Amnesty International. “Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, US Authorities Must Release Immigration Detainees,” April 7, 2020. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/04/usa-covid19-pandemic-authorities-must-release-immigration-detainees/.

Fight Toxic Prisons. “Alabama Re-Opens Oldest Prison As A Covid19 Death Camp.” #FightToxicPrisons (blog), April 8, 2020. https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/2020/04/08/alabama-re-opens-oldest-prison-as-a-covid19-death-camp/.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, and Naomi Murakawa. “Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition.” Eventbrite, April 16, 2020. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/101585777796?aff=efbneb.

León, Felice. “Yusef Salaam of The Exonerated Five Speaks Out Against COVID-19 and Prison Industrial Complex Injustices.” The Root, April 3, 2020. https://www.theroot.com/the-forgotten-population-yusef-salaam-speaks-out-about-1842654385?utm_medium=sharefromsite.

Madan, Monique O. “238 Inmates at Krome ICE Detention Center Exposed to COVID-19.” Miami Herald, April 8, 2020. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241862246.html.

Rose, Andy. “Nearly 200 Inmates Rioted after Officials Announced Coronavirus Cases in a Washington State Facility.” CNN, April 9, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/us/washington-monroe-prison-riot/index.html.

Solidarity Across Borders “Ex-detainees and hunger strikers speak up about the urgency of releasing all those detained amidst COVID-19 pandemic.” (Laval, Canada) Saturday 11 April, 2pm to 4pm. https://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/hungerstrikelaval-teach-in-the-struggle-continues

Solidarity Across Borders “Act Now: Guard tests positive for COVID-19 at Laval Immigration Holding Centre” (Laval, Canada). https://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/guard-tests-positive

Quebec

Google Docs. “Aide Financière Pour Les Travailleuses.Eurs Du Sexe Au Temps Du COVID-19.” Accessed April 6, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lOk1QGGCapaVPuTLJSe2DLHg2p8fRQn/view.

Google Docs. “Foire Aux Questions – Emploi et Logement.” Accessed April 7, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB0nTKNJJXesh8txqPJTt0s2clYySTAZfR8l3PWzYvI/edit.

Tremblay, Michel-Félix. “Les étudiants du campus des Îles-de-la-Madeleine en grève symbolique.” Radio-Canada.ca. Radio-Canada.ca, April 5, 2020. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1691222/cegep-college-campus-iles-greve-manifestation.

Solidarity Across Borders “Act Now: Guard tests positive for COVID-19 at Laval Immigration Holding Centre” (Laval, Canada). https://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/guard-tests-positive

Canada

Google Docs. “Foire Aux Questions – Emploi et Logement.” Accessed April 7, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB0nTKNJJXesh8txqPJTt0s2clYySTAZfR8l3PWzYvI/edit.

The Canadian Press. “14 Migrant Workers at a Kelowna, B.C. Nursery Tested Positive for COVID-19.” National Observer, April 5, 2020. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/05/news/14-migrant-workers-kelowna-bc-nursery-tested-positive-covid-19.

Interactive map tracking charges & violations related to COVID-19, Policing the Pandemic: Tracking the policing of COVID-19 across Canada, https://www.policingthepandemic.ca/

Indigenous North America

Acee, Agoyo. “‘At This Rate, the Entire Tribe Will Be Extinct’: Zuni Pueblo Sees COVID-19 Cases Double as First Death Is Confirmed.” Indianz, April 8, 2020. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/08/at-this-rate-the-entire-tribe-will-be-ex.asp.

International

BBC News. “Coronavirus: Four out of Five People’s Jobs Hit by Pandemic,” April 7, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52199888.

Riley, Lee W., Eva Raphael, and Robert Snyder. “The Coronavirus Threat for the Billion People Living in Slums.” The New York Times, April 8, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opinion/coronavirus-slums.html.

Africa

Abalo, Joyce, and Sarah O’Sullivan. “Ugandans Brace for the Worst.” Africa Is A Country, April 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/ugandans-brace-for-the-worst-after-museveni-announces-14-day-lockdown.

Chigudu, Simukai. “From Cholera to Corona: The Politics of Plagues in Africa.” Africa Is A Country, April 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/03/from-cholera-to-corona-the-politics-of-plagues-in-africa.

Mwaba, Anna K. “Addressing a Pandemic on a Continental Level.” Africa Is A Country, April 2020. https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/addressing-a-pandemic-on-a-continental-level

Europe

Middle East and North Africa

Le Rif. “Au Maroc, Le Régime Libère 5.654 Détenus Tout En Excluant Les Prisonniers Politiques et d’opinion,” April 5, 2020. https://www.courrierdurif.com/2020/04/au-maroc-le-regime-libere-5654-detenus.html.

Mughrabi, Nidal al-. “Gaza Runs out of Coronavirus Tests, Palestinian Health Officials Say.” Reuters, April 8, 2020. https://news.yahoo.com/gaza-runs-coronavirus-tests-palestinian-171108417.html.

South and Central America

Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. “Call of the Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants and Peoples’ Organizations of Latin America,” April 3, 2020. http://cadtm.org/Call-of-the-indigenous-peoples-afro-descendants-and-peoples-organizations-of.

Facebook. “Covid-19 En El Salvador: A Critical Feminist View (Translated),” April 7, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/cispes.solidarity.page/posts/3137802892906029.

U.S.

Ho, Vivian. “Wasted Time: How San Francisco Failed Its Homeless Population amid Coronavirus | World News | The Guardian.” The Guardian, April 8, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/san-francisco-coronavirus-homeless-shelter.

Hogan, Gwynne. “Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities.” Gothamist, April 7, 2020. https://gothamist.com/news/surge-number-new-yorkers-dying-home-officials-suspect-undercount-covid-19-related-deaths.

Laughland, Oliver. “In the Poorest County, in America’s Poorest State, a Virus Hits Home: ‘Hunger Is Rampant’ | World News | The Guardian.” The Guardian, April 6, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/in-the-poorest-county-in-americas-poorest-state-a-virus-hits-home-hunger-is-rampant.

Lemon, Jason. “Over 7 Million Americans to Lose Health Insurance During Coronavirus Pandemic, 1.5 Million Have Already Lost Coverage, New Study Predicts.” Newsweek, April 8, 2020. https://www.newsweek.com/over-7-million-americans-lose-health-insurance-during-coronavirus-pandemic-15-million-have-1496925.

Marsh, Julia, and Rich Calder. “NYC Rolls out $1.3B in Budget Cuts, Big Hits to Education, Social Services.” NY Post, April 7, 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/nyc-rolls-out-1-3b-in-budget-cuts-big-hits-to-education-social-services/.

Event

Ex-detainees and hunger strikers speak up about the urgency of releasing all those detained amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

When: Saturday 11 April
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Place: Online.
Facebook event

*** Please sign up here and we will send a link on the day of the event! ****

Description:
Between March 24 and 31, migrants detained in Laval’s migrant prison went on hunger strike to demand that the detainees be freed and be given access to necessary health care and housing. Their fight has generated an outpouring of solidarity from coast to coast, and continues to strengthen the movement to free all prisoners.

Migrant detainees remain at an extremely high risk of contracting COVID-19, and currently 15 people remain in detention in Laval Prison. However, immigration judges are proceeding as usual with individual detention reviews and are slowly releasing detainees on a case by case basis.

Once migrant detainees are released, their access to essential services, such as healthcare and housing, is limited by their precarious immigration status. Demands for status for all take on a new urgency in the context of COVID-19 to ensure that no-one is left behind in the response to the pandemic.

Join us for this teach-in as we hear directly from ex-detainees and hunger strikers to learn more about the situation in the detention center, their current challenges and the urgency of the demands to #FreeThemAll and for #StatusForAll.

The struggle continues with demands to free all those confined in prisons and detention centres across Turtle Island/North America. Let’s keep the momentum and the pressure to free all detainees!!

More information!

Struggle and Fightback

Resources

Analysis & Commentary

Ableism

Gender

Racism (see also Health Disparities)

Health Disparities

Far Right

Economy

Work In-Depth

Scrambling for Supplies

Housing

The Clampdown

Confined in the Age of COVID-19

Quebec

Canada

Indigenous North America

International

Africa

Europe

Middle East and North Africa

South and Central America

U.S.

Event

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