Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

So for today's Patreon episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about the coronavirus.

I'm going to read some articles about it and about the response to it by the terrible

US government.

I'll give some ideas for things people can do in their communities to help or things

people can do just completely online.

And I'm going to talk about some other things like sanctions, price gouging, and some solutions

that are taking place around the country.

So we're going to touch on a lot of different things.

It's sort of going to be haphazard.

I haven't really fully laid out an outline or anything, so I'm just going to sort of riff

on a lot of different things and bring up as much as I can, hopefully help people sort

of come to a better understanding of what exactly is happening and things we can do

to combat it or help our neighbors, etc.

The first thing I want to do is I want to plug our organization's fundraising drive.

So our local organization, the Nebraska Left Coalition, is conducting its annual spring

fundraising drive and 100% of the money that we get through these fundraisers, they go

into supporting our mutual aid programs.

Our autonomous food networks, our organic garden that we grow and our financial assistance

programs to the most vulnerable people in our community, especially in the face of

an outbreak, especially in the face of a possible recession.

These sorts of programs that local organizations use to go out and meet people's needs are

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