Organizing and Covid-19 (Part 2) (02/22/23)

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In Part 2 of 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 2, we speak with Becca (beginning at 02:30), Raia Small (beginning at 32:00), and Kelly Hayes (1:01:20). As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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.
0:37.9	Every chain of transmission that is broken is valuable.
0:41.7	Every person that doesn't get sick, that doesn't lose that week of work or doesn't become
0:46.1	disabled or die, from the minarest of inconveniences to the greatest of losses, every single
0:52.3	one of those things is valuable. The Welcome to the debt panel.
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1:45.2	underscore so we're here with part two of our conversation with organizers again just in case you
1:52.0	haven't heard part one we're talking this week and we talked last week with some organizers
1:57.3	what successes they might have had what what failures they've had, and especially
2:01.7	what gives them resolved to keep pushing for COVID protections, even when some of their
2:05.9	comrades are not on the same page.
2:08.5	It's a great episode.
2:10.4	In part two today, we have Becca, Reyes Small, and Kelly Hayes.
2:14.9	So without further ado, let's get to the interviews. I'm Becca. She her pronouns, and I do some organizing and activism in Atlanta.
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