Organizing and Covid-19 (Part 1) (02/16/23)

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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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 (beginning at 03:30), a student organizer at a university in the northeast US, and Reina Sultan (beginning at 54:30), a co-creator of 8 to Abolition. Part 2 will be released as next week's public episode. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organizing-and-covid-19-part-1 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

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0:00.0	What I really needed to hear when protection started to be ripped away in 2022 was that it's not too late.
0:09.0	And that just because we're three years or more into a pandemic does not mean that it's too late to start organizing or it's too late to join organizing around the pandemic.
0:19.7	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 of color, people with disabilities, elders, like people who are already oppressed in so many ways. Every chain of transmission that is broken is valuable.
0:41.3	Every person that doesn't get sick, that doesn't lose that week of work
0:45.3	or doesn't become disabled or die, from the minors of inconveniences
0:49.3	to the greatest of losses, every single one of those things is valuable. The Welcome to the death panel.
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1:42.0	So today we have a very special episode for you.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:45.7	So today's show is very different from usual with the public health emergency ending May 11th
1:51.2	and the conversation we've been having about how the end of many aspects of the federal
1:56.8	COVID response is going to affect our social movements.
1:59.6	We thought that right now would be a really
2:01.5	important time to talk to a few organizers and political activists or advocates about exactly that.
2:10.9	Specifically, while some of the people you're about to hear from across these interviews have
2:14.9	done some COVID-specific work, for this, we wanted to talk to organizers who work on other issues, actually,
2:22.1	about the importance for the left and for social movements in general in taking COVID seriously
2:27.3	and everything that entails.
2:29.3	You know, what successes have they had and what failures and especially what gives them resolve to keep
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