Month: March 2020

https://www.detroitdisabilitypower.org/ As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, it is becoming increasingly evident how dire our collective situation is. It’s also becoming clear that ableism (the systemic discrimination of disabled people) and ageism (the systemic discrimination of older people) are alive and well. In a country with massive wealth inequality and entrenched racism, sexism, xenophobia, […]

Voces de la Frontera

ACSO Requests $255 Million in New Funding Over Three Years; COVID-19 Reaches Santa Rita Jail With No Comprehensive Plans for Prevention or Further Releases  March 28, 2020 Oakland IWOC Just over a week into the “shelter in place” directive that is now statewide, COVID-19 has reached Santa Rita Jail. The County confirmed on March 26 […]

You are invited to a Zoom meeting/conference call. When: Saturday Apr 4, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time The whole world is grappling with how best to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.  One country, Cuba, is sending its doctors and nurses around the world to help beleaguered health care systems and making available a Cuban produced […]

Amazonians United New York City

https://bit.ly/33Um5qt Listen to the Sat. March 28, 2020 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the declaration of a lockdown in the Republic of Zimbabwe in response to the rising threat of the COVID-19 […]

MSDF Car Parade Noise Demo SAFER AT HOME means PRISONERS, TOO! JOIN US on Tuesday, March 31 from Noon to 1PM for a social-distancing rally demanding release of EVERYONE from MSDF. We’re calling this action a “car parade”–we will drive cars around the facility, playing music or audio clips from our incarcerated friends and family […]