In place of our usual content, this week, we are revisiting A COVID Memorial Mixtape. The mixtape, which was released in October of 2020 by Ric Wilson, in collaboration with a number of grassroots organizers, was created as part of a month-long effort to memorialize people lost to COVID-19. It was also played through a loudspeaker outside the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in downtown Chicago. When the tape was created, we had lost over 200,000 people to COVID-19 in the United States. Now, we have lost over 750,000. Globally, more than 5 million people have died. So we're taking a pause this week, and revisiting some reflection, reverence and resistance around those losses.
We’ll be back next week with a regular episode.
You can find a transcript on our website.
Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Self-Governance and Liberation
Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually
“Hope For Me is in The Doing of Things,” Says Mariame Kaba
Family Policing is Part of a "Carceral Web"
Capitalism is Killing Us and Our Work Won't Love Us Back
Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival, Not a Site of Profit Extraction
State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior
Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities Safer – It’s Disempowering Them
Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity
“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
Native Organizers Celebrate Solidarity, Grieve Losses and Work to Reduce Harm
Vigil for Palestine: We Mourn and Consider What Solidarity Demands of Us
Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse
Israel's Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally
To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
We Can Survive Together By Becoming Kin
Our Movements Need Infrastructure for Care, Recovery and Belonging
Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky
AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
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