How COVID Changed Everything - Part 3 - Acting

Imperfect Paradise

LAist Studios

Society & Culture

4.5 • 535 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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LAist Studios & USC Annenberg's School of Journalism Present: How COVID Changed Everything

A series where graduate students in the USC Annenberg School of Journalism examine the many ways—both dramatic and nuanced—that the pandemic has changed life in ways we are only now beginning to understand.

Part 3: Acting

While the pandemic caused a lot of stasis, it also inspired plenty of action. Once we accepted the changes that the pandemic brought, what did we do with them? How did we take action? In this episode: LA cultural workers fight for better work conditions, one survivor decides to fight back against domestic violence, a small foundation keeps the legacy of a ground-breaking Finnish gay artist alive, and a nurse rethinks the way we process death and dying.

Content Warning: This series contains sensitive subject matter and mentions of domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

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0:34.4	From LAS Studios and USC Annenberg Media, this is imperfect paradise.
0:40.1	How COVID changed everything.
0:42.6	Stories by USC grad students who come from all over the world.
0:47.1	I'm Kelly McEvers.
0:49.4	Now that the World Health Organization has declared,
0:52.7	COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency,
0:56.4	a lot of us are thinking about all the changes in our lives.
1:00.4	Change, of course, is inevitable during and after a massive event like this.
1:05.8	But now what? Things are different.
1:09.2	What do we do with all the change? That's what we'll be talking about in this episode, acting on it. See, Lali Chavez has the story of what workers are doing.
1:19.4	In 2009, I moved to L.A. for college and quickly became captivated by the city's labor history and cultural life.
1:27.4	After graduating, I was offered a job as a rep for one of LA's most iconic labor unions, United Service Workers West. I worked with the janitors, or as they're known in LA labor circles, the Jays, or Los Janitors. Back in the 80s, the labor movement had not yet embraced immigrant workers,
1:46.4	but the Jays showed this country it was possible for immigrant workers to organize, like Latina
1:51.7	immigrant women. And lately, everywhere I look, workers are unionizing. They're all saying enough.
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