coronavirus
The Ex-worker #76: Anarchist Nurses Speak Out on Survival and Resistance
From CrimethInc.
Interviews with anarchist nurses on health, mutual aid, survival, resistance
Anarchists and the coronavirus
From Winter Oak
Moments of crisis like the one we are currently experiencing can allow us to see through the surface of our world and grasp with greater clarity some hitherto hidden truths. It is with this in mind that we present this provisional and far-from-comprehensive analysis of the reaction to the coronavirus situation from anarchist and left-libertarian outlets.
Anarchism and Pandemics
From C4SS by William Gillis
Anarchists face the question: *Without nations and states wouldn’t a free society be especially ravaged by pandemics? Who would enforce quarantines without rebuilding a centralized institution of violence?*
It’s a fair question.
INTERRUPTION, SUSPENDED
From ill will editions
QUARANTINE LETTER #2
A second letter in our quarantine series, penned in response to “Destitution, interrupted.”
Conspiring to Keep People Alive
From Gods and Radicals By Rhyd Wildermuth
Seven years ago I found myself sitting in the passenger seat of my best friend’s truck, driving through the Olympic Peninsula in Northwest Washington State. We’d made many such trips, usually for camping on the Hoh river, where the two of us would sit next to a fire as the evening set, watching elk drink at the river’s edge as the sky above us exploded in stars...
Let’s Not Spread the Cop Virus!
from anarchists worldwide
Originally published on Nantes Indymedia on 27.03.2020
APPEAL TO CITIZENS TO AVOID CONTAMINATION
If you see a street vendor on the street, don’t call the police to report them. Go and buy something from them.
200 People Take to the Streets for Unregistered Protest
Motto: Time does not stand still – Mindful protest in times of corona and state of emergency.
The protesters gathered individually and in groups of two, kept a distance of 2 meters apart and most of them wore mouth / nose protection. After 30 minutes, those assembled disbanded their protest. Prior to that, the police had asked them to end the protest.
Against Social Distancing: A Critique of the Ideology of Isolation
As of now, multiple states and cities have been put into what amounts to near-complete lockdown. Most of the East Coast of the U.S. has prohibited mass gatherings of people and forced restaurants to stop serving people in the building. Some states have even started to enforce curfews and travel restrictions.
At this point, the speculation is not when this will abide, but how much worse it is going to get.
Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon against COVID-19
From Outside the Circle
While “social distancing” is a necessary tool to help stop the spread of this virus, it will only be effective if it’s grounded in an ethics and practice of social solidarity and collective care. COVID-19 clearly demonstrates that only by deeply looking out for each other — acting as if everyone’s life has inherent worth and is at risk; as if the health of one is the health of all — will we actually be able to lessen the amount of sickness and death, not to mention the emotional weight on us all. Unless everyone cooperates, the virus exponentially spreads.
The Ex-Worker #74
From Crimethinc.
The COVID–19 crisis presents both extreme dangers and opportunities. As our lives are threatened by a new virus, our freedom is menaced by authoritarians intent on using this opportunity to set new precedents for state intervention and control. On the other hand, the collapse of the global capitalist economy and unprecedented social crisis are opening possibilities for refusal and resistance that we could not have imagined even a month ago.
Announcement re: the Montreal 2020 bookfair
We're inviting you to share imaginative ideas with us. How can we take or make, and then share, space to be together? Are there novel ways to dialogue about ideas, play, grieve, make art and music, offer care, show solidarity, dance, and so on, that remind ourselves we're still here, we're still strong--ways that might allow some of us to gather at a "safe" distance in person in Montreal and/or others to engage in highly participatory long-distance ways, including physically in their own locales at the same time?
24th Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair / ROAR Conference - Postponed
Coronavirus and Mutual Aid- Nowadays we are living in a common History
from Void Network
We are facing a pernicious virus which terrifies the world. To comfort our anxiety, we say to ourselves, that if we take precautions, we will survive. In the meantime, we try to reduce the hours we watch television. In fact, watching the news has become an essential activity to get through the day. Our traumas from the fake news, and our lack of trust in the media, have been replaced by a deeper wound, that of the constant briefing on a pandemic affecting us all.
The Pandemics of Capital
It’s difficult to write a text like this one right now. In the current context, in which coronavirus has busted – or soon threatens to – the living conditions of many of us, the only thing you want to do is go out to the street and set everything ablaze, with a mask on if needed. That’s what it deserves.