(2022-02-06). Reclaman en Brasil justicia por refugiado congoleño asesinado. telesurtv.net Ciudadanos movilizados en al menos 30 ciudades brasileñas denuncian violencia estructural y racismo que persiste en Brasil.
(2022-02-06). Tuesday 2/8: Mental Health Rights: Dependent Adults & Elders Rights to be Free of Abuse & Neglect. indybay.org Online webinar…
(2022-02-06). Saturday 4/2: #M4A: 2022 Medicare For All Virtual Strategy Conference (Day 1). indybay.org Virtual conference – join online…
(2022-02-06). Wednesday 2/16: Black Liberation and Pedagogies – Presented by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…
(2022-02-06). Wednesday 4/13: Students as Agents of Transformative Change – Hosted by John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…
(2022-02-06). Wednesday 3/30: Social Movements for a Just Society- Hosted by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…
(2022-02-06). Wednesday 3/2: Solidarities for Justice – Presented by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…
(2022-02-06). Wednesday 4/6: Pathways to Thriving Communities- Presented by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…
(2022-02-06). Sunday 4/3: #M4A: 2022 Medicare For All Virtual Strategy Conference (Day 2). indybay.org Virtual conference – join online…
(2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Ayoade Alakija: advancing equity in the COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is running late for our video call because of back-to-back meetings in Geneva as the newly appointed WHO Special Envoy and Co-Chair of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), a global collaboration to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 health tools. Her Geneva visit will help her "join the dots to help move us from working in silos to working better collectively to overcome COVID-19", she tells me in between her last meeting and catching a flight back home to Abuja, Nigeria.
(2022-02-05). In New Zealand, rising inflation, inequality intensify social crisis. wsws.org The Labour-Green Party government's pro-business policies, imposed since it assumed office in 2017, have produced an unprecedented explosion in social inequality since the onset of COVID-19.
(2022-02-05). Bomb threats sent to historically black colleges across the United States. wsws.org The series of threats against historically black colleges and the law-and-order response of authorities follow protests and demonstrations at schools and universities against inequality and the spread of COVID-19.
(2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Xenophobia, prejudice, and blame in pandemic times. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us time and time again, through deeply painful lessons, that epidemics of infectious diseases may be biological in origin but our collective understandings of them and their impacts are social. From US Supreme Court rulings on mask and vaccine mandates in December, 2020, and as recently as January, 2022, to xenophobia, racism, and the blaming of disease spread on those marginalised within society, COVID-19 has laid bare what historians of epidemics have long understood—that epidemics expose, reproduce, and harden existing prejudices and inequalities within societies.
(2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Beyond Trans competency: imagining a Trans liberatory future. thelancet.com "But can you give me some examples of how you're oppressed?" asked the doctor. "There aren't any laws against being transgender in the USA." One of us (GKR, a non-binary Trans man) was wrapping up an educational workshop for medical practitioners on how to provide care for Trans patients and the structural obstacles Trans people face when seeking health care. The doctor continued: "You mentioned that some Trans women are forced to go to men's prisons when they are incarcerated. Can you tell me about that?" In that moment, GKR feared he had failed as an educator.
(2022-02-05). Sunday 2/27: Online Reading and discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…