By Infoshop
Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread.
From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through information suppression, governmental inadequacy and unpreparedness as well as supply shortages in panic-economies with global financial markets plummeting.
The global pandemic is a disaster enveloping all of the intersections where climate catastrophes typically surge, storm-batter and strand impacted regions, but when every community is a different version of ground zero, sourcing from within, in as much as possible, becomes a critical component.
Piecing together carefully constructed information on defending our communities, building bridges over access and info gaps for folks with differing vulnerabilities and sharing comprehensive information on harm reduction, DIY resource building and responding with best practices is the radical solidarity being generated by folks across the world.
A compendium of this information below constructs this piece, every bit as much as it deconstructs the notion that the state will save us in a time of crisis.
As this piece is being written, so is a bailout package for industries whose profit-losses have pushed public safety to the back-burners in a time when we face desperate testing capability shortages, medical facility supply shortages, thousands of Covid-19 deaths and over 120,000 cases of infection worldwide.
Don’t panic. Organize […]
via When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Notice how radioactive shit-holes, like France and the USA, have the highest Covid mortalities. Community efforts are important. We must also work to rid ourselves, of the massive amounts of radioactive pathogens in our radioactive shithole societies.
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Excellent point, Gemma. For any new system to have any kind of longevity, some of us will have to learn how to safely dismantle nuclear facilities.
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