Best of 2023: Organizing and Covid-19 (Parts 1 & 2)

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🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 163 minutes

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As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This two-part episode was originally released on February 16th and 22nd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: In this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing work, wins and losses they've encountered, and why it's so important for the left to take covid seriously, even as the public health emergency comes to a close. In Part 1, we speak with Alex, a student organizer at a university in the northeast US, and Reina Sultan, a co-creator of 8 to Abolition. A transcript of Part 1 can be found here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organizing-and-covid-19-part-1 In Part 2, we speak with Becca, Raia Small, and Kelly Hayes. A transcript of Part 2 will be posted shortly. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	Hello, Artie here, and welcome to something new we're trying out, which is our roundup of some of our favorite episodes from the last year, 2023.
0:09.9	So over the holidays, and as this year comes to a close, we're releasing a Best of 2023 series.
0:16.2	This is by no means objective and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out,
0:21.3	but also featuring some newly unlocked patron episodes that people have been asking for
0:25.5	for a while. So we'll be releasing one every weekday, and we'll be back with the first
0:30.1	episode of the new year on January 8th. In the meantime, we want to say thank you to all of our patrons.
0:35.3	It means a lot to us that we're entirely independent. We don't do ads or sponsored content and are entirely listener supported,
0:42.3	so your support goes directly to helping us make deeply researched episodes just like the
0:47.2	ones you'll hear this week. And if you're listening to this and you're not a patron,
0:49.9	you can support us at patreon.com slash death panel pod. As always, stay alive another week and see you all in the new year.
0:58.4	What I really needed to hear when protection started to be ripped away in 2022
1:03.9	was that it's not too late.
1:06.5	And that just because we're three years or more into a pandemic
1:10.2	does not mean that it's too late to start organizing or it's too late to join organizing around the pandemic.
1:17.2	Personally, I feel like I can't really trust an organization that's not taking on such a huge issue that is affecting everyone, but particularly poor people, working class people, people
1:28.8	of color, people with disabilities, elders, like people who are already oppressed in so many
1:34.5	ways.
1:35.4	Every chain of transmission that is broken is valuable.
1:39.2	Every person that doesn't get sick, that doesn't lose that week of work or doesn't become
1:43.6	disabled or die, from the
1:45.4	minarist of inconveniences to the greatest of losses, every support the show and get access to all of our weekly Welcome to the Death Panel.
2:18.3	To support the show and get access to all of our weekly bonus episodes, become a patron at patreon.com slash deathpanel pod.
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