This week, Eamon and I wrap up our dialogue on COVID-19, specifically with an eye toward what we can do to confront this crisis. We chat about the surge of mutual aid organizing and base-building, the wave of rent strikes hitting major urban centers, and community-organizing in a time of self-quarantining. Above all else, Eamon and I talk about how we can all live our lives so fucking brilliantly that even death will tremble to take us.
If this is your first time checking out Coffee with Comrades, we encourage you to check out Ep. 80: “The Virus is the Profit Motive,” the first half of our two-part series on COVID-19.
We encourage you to get involved in Mutual Aid organizing in your neck-of-the-woods. Check out this round-up of mutual aid organizations all across the so-called United States.
Resources:
- Ventilator shortages expose the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism
- Democrats roll over for the Trump Administration’s “stimulus package”
- Leaked documents expose how Amazon tried to frame warehouse strike organizer
- Neo-Nazis plot to bomb hospital amidst COVID-19 crisis
- White supremacists plan to cough on Jews if they contract COVID-19
- Mutual aid activity explodes across the so-called U.S.
- Organize a Rent Strike with these resources from IGD and CrimethInc. and Rebel Steps
- Expected 32% of U.S. workforce will be out of a job
- Coronavirus is a labor crisis: will a general strike follow?
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Music:
- Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie
- Interlude: “Mean Demeanor”
- Outro: “Alibi” by Hawk
