COVID-19: Left Perspectives ^[a][b][c]

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• Ecology, Nature, Deforestation
• Care, Vulnerability, and Disability Justice
• Globalization, Finance, Disaster Capitalism
• Feminism, Social Reproduction and Care
• Labor and Workers’ Rights
• Immigration and Borders
• Health Inequality and Race  
• International Solidarity
• Coronavirus Science
• Prison Support
• Anti-Colonial and Indigenous Perspectives
• Vulnerability and Housing
• Mutual Aid Networks
• Disaster Communism/Disaster Communities

1. Ecology, Nature, Deforestation 

1. Social contagion: microbiological class warfare in China -- chuangcn.org. Feb 26, 2020.  

http://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ 

2. The Ecology of Disease - Jim Robbins. July 14, 2012.  New York Times. (paywall)

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/the-ecology-of-disease.html 

3. Where did coronavirus come from and where will it take us? -- Rob Wallace. March 12, 2020. Uneven Earth.

http:/unevengh h uhh hh uhh gh earth.org/2020/03/where-did-coronavirus-come-from-and-where-will-it-take-us-an-interview-with-rob-wallace-author-of-big-farms-make-big-flu/ 

        3a. Notes on a Novel Coronavirus — Rob Wallace. Jan. 29, 2020. Monthly Review.

https://mronline.org/2020/01/29/notes-on-a-novel-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR3kil_lv6tB8J        ebsnDFd2Q-WblIq5EX_u1ani_PeIGFkR-3NKg3N9bxwQ

4. Coronavirus and the Need for a Social Ecology. --E.G. Smith. March 14, 2020. Institute for Social Ecology.

http://social-ecology.org/wp/2020/03/coronavirus-and-the-need-for-a-social-ecology/

5. Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again -- Sonia Shah. February 18, 2020. The Nation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-habitat-loss/

6. Dis-Ease: understanding disease through metaphor. Mariam Ghani. March 5, 2020. New Models Podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/ep23-tentacular-disease?fbclid=IwAR2FgFa7uWm        h-WMyDawaT4_AGhgCH0OFhFM0u0Z_PiQoczF27VuODUn6kU.

7. The Monster is at the Door. Mike Davis. March 12, 2020. Haymarket Books.  

https://www.haymarketbooks.org//110-mike-davis-on-covid-19-the-monster-is-at-the-door.

7b. Capitalism’s Virus (Podcast). March 16, 2020. Alberta Advantage.

https://soundcloud.com/albertaadvantage/capitalisms-virus 

8. Big Farms Make Big Flu. Rob Wallace. Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/

8b. Ten Theses of Farming and Disease. Rob Wallace. Farming Pathogens.

https://farmingpathogens.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/ten-theses/?theme_preview=true&        frame=true&frame-nonce=8194e23716 

8c.  Ebola’s Ecologies. Rob Wallace and Rodrick Wallace. December 1, 2016. New Left Review.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II102/articles/rob-wallace-rodrick-wallace-ebola-s-ecologies

9.  Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection. Rodrick Wallace et al. Springer. (Paywall)

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319728490

10. The Pandemic Epicenter: Pointing from Viruses to China’s Wildlife Trade --Lyle Fearnley, March 6, 2020.Somatosphere.

http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/wild-virus/ 

11. Agroecology in times of COVID-19--Miguel A Altieri & Clara Ines Nicholls, March 18, 2020, Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecócigas. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LJzdC8aYRrt_8Qw78Tjxca-RuaHMODf4 

12. Destruction of habitat and loss of biodiversity are creating the perfect conditions for diseases like COVID-19 to emerge -- date? John Vida, Ensia https://ensia.com/features/covid-19-coronavirus-biodiversity-planetary-health-zoonoses/

13. China's Global Reach: Urban Social Lives of the More-than-Human. Jesse Rodenbiker. April 8, 2020. Society and Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/chinas-global-reach-urban-social-lives-of-the-more-than-human.

B. Care, Vulnerability, and Disability Justice

14. Autonomous Groups are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives to Combat Coronavirus. March 14, 2020. It’s Going Down.

https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR30ePddLxStI-3XU-MNDS0oKq6KdoZGFkQw8CRru9tq5d8K1v3MPjal55Q.

15. Caring at a Distance -- Maryse Mitchell-Brody. March 7, 2020. Healing Justice 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILE8kk_zUqMscO8FbdPgrQMLoijoRupuHHIC1YdvRGI/preview?fbclid=IwAR30YSCeYnxeD5SJkGyNrcLGKqchAYQeUgdY4rD99WGUqiXUVVa5ixUvhCo 

16. Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19. Jade Begay. March 13, 2020. NDN Collective.

https://ndncollective.org/indigenizing-and-decolonizing-community-care-in-response-to-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1vggO7_7GN_awAnqfC_dnKEmfzc5p2KCguelKeDrgaLIm2yaXWt5t6FQs

17. In a disaster that calls for Isolation, your community will help you survive. Alissa Walker. March 12, 2020. Curbed.

https://www.curbed.com/2020/3/3/21157918/coronavirus-prepare-home-neighborhood-covid19.

18. Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Inhumanity of Capitalism. What Can Socialists Do? Statement by Alliance of MENA Socialists

https://allianceofmesocialists.org/coronavirus-pandemic-exposes-inhumanity-of-capitali        m-what-can-socialists-do/

19. ‘The Cripples Will Save You’: A Critical Coronavirus Message from a Disability Activist. Charis Hill. March 6, 2020. Creaky Joints.

https://creakyjoints.org/living-with-arthritis/coronavirus-disability-activism/.

20. When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. March 16, 2020.  It’s Going Down.

https://itsgoingdown.org/when-every-community-is-ground-zero-pulling-each-other-through-a-pandemic/.

21. Feminist emergency plan in the face of the Coronavirus crisis. Coordinadora Feminista 8M, Chile. March 18, 2020.

https://towardfreedom.org/blog-blog/chilean-womens-movement-releases-feminist-emegency-plan-in-the-face-of-the-coronavirus-crisis/

C. Globalization, Finance, Disaster Capitalism

22. Naomi Klein: how power profits from disaster. Naoimi Klein. July 6, 2017. The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-dsaster?fbclid=IwAR05e-_J_BWAltSPnw2SevysesRRsi02zyg-7YX-AipjivLLJmhSSvZQUTs.

23. Coronavirus Capitalism --and how to beat it. Naomi Klein. March 16, 2020. The Intercept.

https://theintercept.com/202t0/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/

24. Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics. Socialism is the Solution -- Mike Pappas. March 9, 2020. Left Voice.

https://www.leftvoice.org/capitalism-is-an-incubator-for-pandemics-socialism-is-the-solution?fbclid=IwAR0YjQF1MJo1dfeSrOTKsCrDImsFlkqyOUcJpH7_Gp4_gWtGsIy-CMFAPyI

25. COVID-19 and the Stock Market (video). Richard Wolff. March 11, 2020. Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_46XobpEQ&fbclid=IwAR3W2ZdOJkznJkk8Q01k6Pzhl4B97Ha3Lmt1IpecLQv_4B41yIRa-YsEkF4

26. Coronavirus and Philosophers. European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/ 

27. “This is our version of the coronavirus. We are sick”. Arundhati Roy. March 15, 2020. Jantar Mantar, Delhi.  

https://scroll.in/article/954805/arundhati-roy-on-delhi-violence-this-is-our-version-of-the-coronavirus-we-are-sick

28. COVID-19 Social and Political Analyses. New Politics.

https://newpol.org/covid-19-social-and-political-analyses/.

29. Lifting the Mask of Capitalist Disaster: The Coronavirus Response -- Tariq Khan. March 17, 2020. Black Rose Anarchist Federation Blog.

https://blackrosefed.org/lifting-the-mask-of-capitalist-disaster-coronavirus/ 

30. To Defeat Coronavirus, Media Need to Look at Real-World Examples, Not Play ‘Simulitis’ --Jim Naureckas. March 17, 2020.  Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

https://fair.org/home/to-defeat-coronavirus-media-need-to-look-at-real-world-examples-not-play-simulitis/?fbclid=IwAR0EIpDPxkE_0khWDt664x1FhVC0BUBCAK-91JyuCNnES7pP6Yuad8RJpAo

31. David Harvey. Anti-capitalist Politics in the Age of COVID 19 https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/david-harvey-anti-capitalist-politics-in-an-age-of-covid-19

D. Capitalism, Feminism, Social Reproduction, and care

1. Judith Butler on covid - https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4603-capitalism-has-its-limits
2.  https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4617-covid-19-pandemic-a-crisis-of-care with a link to this https://syllabus.pirate.care/
3. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/social-reproduction-and-the-pandemic-with-tithi-bhattacharya
4. Lewis,https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/
5.  Emily Yates Medical Anthro: http://medanthroquarterly.org/2020/04/08/the-cruelty-of-war-repairing-covid-19-through-healing-and-care/
6. http://somatosphere.net/2020/el-virus-a-contagion-of-racism-how-networks-of-care-can-stop-it.html/
7. Hope for Change: Rebecca Solnit in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/what-coronavirus-can-teach-us-about-hope-rebecca-solnit
8.  https://www.ds4si.org/writings/
9. https://antipodeonline.org/ (See the interventions section)

E. Labor and  Workers’ Rights

32. The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk -- Lazaro Gami. March 15, 2020. New York Times. (Paywall)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/15/business/economy/coronavirus-worker-risk.html

33. What the virus demands, workers need protection. --Deirdre Griswald. March 12, 2020. Workers World.  

https://www.workers.org/2020/03/46817/?fbclid=IwAR0Q2HNMSaUI5tF7e_JzwyeQ2pmvX1wowGD4G4_GT0U1H9PdHR8tRnph0Ok

34. Dossier Coronavirus: La Salud de las Personas Antes de las Empresas (Español). March 15, 2020. Marxist 21.

https://marx21.net/2020/03/15/coronavirus-la-salud-de-las-personas-antes-de-las-empresas/

35. Labor shortages, SNAP cuts, trade deals: How could coronavirus affect our food supply chain? Leah Douglas. March 11, 2020. Fern’s Ag[riculture] Insider

https://thefern.org/ag_insider/labor-shortages-snap-cuts-trade-deals-how-could-coronavirus-affect-our-food-supply-chain/

36. Effects of business shutdown on workers in New York City and elsewhere. Andrew Rigge. March 15, 2020. Forbes Magazine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewrigie/2020/03/15/a-note-and-update-about-covid-19-for-restaurant-and-nightlife-operators-in-nyc-and-elsewhere/#6c28a62173a0.

37. Dispatch from Italy: Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus. Leopoldo Tartaglia. March 20, 2020. Labor Notes.

https://www.labornotes.org/2020/03/dispatch-italy-class-struggle-time-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR1iFtLtWZjn1JojnebxZXSIFH3BQZ0C1j7gTjYsDrZh_vkh1FOtit8blyo

F. Immigration and Borders

38. Health Nativism. Stephanie DeGooyer & Srinivas Murthy. March 17, 2020. Dissent Magazine.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/health-nativism?fbclid=IwAR2t4Zq41U4Zs-Mv0t8FylYzpng1fYxJzGl7HJZGPno0zLiLkXmoGZxc1is 

G.. Health Inequalities and Race^[d]

39. Why Coronavirus Is Killing African-Americans More Than Others. Jamelle Bouie. April, 14, 2020. New York Times (paywall) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/opinion/coronavirus-racism-african-americans.html

40. Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate. April 3, 2020. ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate.

41.  Everyone’s Dying and No One Cares; Are Americans Indifferent to Death on a Mass Scale? Umair Haque. April 22, 2020. Medium

https://eand.co/everyones-dying-and-no-one-cares-d05d97f2b43f

H. International Solidarity  

42. To our friends all over the world from the eye of the Covid-19 storm. Dinamo Press (Italy). March 14 2020.

https://www.dinamopress.it/news/to-our-friends-all-over-the-world-from-the-eye-of-covid-19-storm.

43. Por coronavirus el EZLN cierra caracoles y llama a no abandonar las luchas actuales. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. March 16, 2020. Enlace Zapatista.

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2020/03/16/por-coronavirus-el-ezln-cierra-caracoles-y-llama-a-no-abandonar-las-luchas-actuales/.

44. In the Face of the Pandemic, Lift the Sanctions on Iran Now! Maryan Alaniz March 20, 2020. Left Voice.

https://www.leftvoice.org/in-the-face-of-the-pandemic-lift-the-sanctions-on-iran-now?fbclid=IwAR15s3ut4S6zycnOhg924tabVUp-RMSRd6wZ1Fn0gz-JeI0J2Kbgs-_55FM.  

45.  Why is coronavirus killing so many people in Italy? March 27, 2020. Struggles in Italy.

https://strugglesinitaly.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/en-why-is-coronavirus-killing-so-many-people-in-italy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 

46. Ruthie Gilmore and Naomi Murakaway in conversation https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/128-ruth-wilson-gilmore-on-covid-19-decarceration-and-abolition [Haymarket Books is hosting many excellent conversations for/from the Left]

I. Coronavirus Science

47. Getting Viral: Why COVID-19 is Such a Threat to the 60+ Plus Population and Why the Response May Make It Worse.  Stuart Newman. March 16, 2020. Counterpunch.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/16/why-covid-19-is-such-a-threat-to-the-60-plus-population-and-why-the-response-may-make-it-worse/

48. “Doctor: As Coronavirus Cases Spike Worldwide, We Need Global Cooperation to Halt Spread” Dr. Michele Barry. March 20, 2020. Democracy Now! (human ecology, Anthropocene, climate change)

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/20/coronavirus_dr_michele_barry 

J. Prison Support

49.  Coronavirus inevitable in prison-like US immigration centers, doctors say. Amanda Holpuch, 11 March 2020. The Guardian.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-outbreak-us-immigration-centers?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1h4wbK3-grkCj5dYKHob03lAtXKqdfnO8RUtPizs5npt1V_OEIEmSwvvc 

50. ICE detainees go on hunger strike in N.J amid coronavirus fears, lawyers say. Joe Atmonavage, 18 March 2020. NJ.com.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/we-would-rather-die-on-the-outside-than-in-here-ice-detainees-go-on-hunger-strike-in-nj-amid-coronavirus-fears-lawyers-say.html

51. Policing the Pandemic: security for whom? Iida Käyhkö and Laura Schack. April 2, 2020. ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/policing-the-pandemic-security-for-whomed/

52.  See link to video (in three parts) of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s conversation with Naomi Murakawa, and another interview at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/interviews/prisons-and-class-warfare

K. Anti-Colonial and Indigenous Perspectives

53. COVID-19 Pandemic: Capitalism in Crisis. Red Nation. March 16, 2020.

https://therednation.org/2020/03/16/the-covid-19-pandemic-capitalism-in-crisis/

54. Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19. Jade Begay. March 13, 2020.

https://ndncollective.org/indigenizing-and-decolonizing-community-care-in-response-to-covid-19 

55. The coronavirus is exacerbating vulnerabilities Native communities already face. Maria Givens. March 25. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21192669/coronavirus-native-americans-indians.

L. Vulnerability and Housing

56. Key considerations: COVID-19 in informal urban settlements. Institute of Development Studies. March 2020.

https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15185/SSHAP_COVID-19_Key_Considerations_Informal_Settlements_final.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

57. Citing coronavirus, homeless families seize 12 vacant homes in L.A.: “We have to do this’”. Liam Dillion. March 18, 2020.

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-03-18/homeless-occupy-more-vacant-homes-coronavirus-pandemic-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR3xbLytcOV66aQdGiutx6BQEFTtvgBxJExmR98VWRvhJ8xT69TTKktLkDc

58. America’s inequitable housing system is completely unprepared for coronavirus. Jenny Schuetz. March 12, 2020. Brookings Institution.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/03/12/americas-inequitable-housing-system-is-completely-unprepared-for-coronavirus/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnM1lqSm1PV00wTURWayIsInQiOiJvbGVoRW1JUXhcL1pkdWp5TSt0SWVLR1hcL1NiZU9wZXVtYnREOGVcL1FvMDhKRDFKeWVHZ1B3S0dTZlZcL2ZBM085OWU4MXpieGxJeHJ4RXM2dG5seEJpNis4anhpZDBQdm84bVBJOUpVWmozUHNYdDFuZE1nbVBxaXpoZUxlekhkRjIifQ%3D%3D

M. Mutual Aid Networks

59. Mutual Aid Network Library (Google Doc) (USA-wide)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRks16AM9mtiFCCdEJmckD9IszC7rHkvfRj6xxspMB4BBB8n_SiUsHCfbHbDCixmvNGTSPm7PEii2nP/pubhtml?fbclid=IwAR1_amDkCxCV7cYBO-CxVrVyzz9ckI3l9MEdeAs4Q6LsqoFuC_Xj_QPAnCk.

30a.COVID-19 Mutual Aid and Advocacy Resources. (Google Doc) (USA-wide) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpMzMzsA83jbVEXS8m7QKOtK4nj6gIUk1U1t6P4wShY/edit 

30b. Covid-19 Mutual Aid Resource Links (Los Angeles) Audrey Kuo https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d4fgYbzC4B1o1CQOIWbTxTUnE5VUIxv04EqeBjR2Fhc/edit

30c. Reach Out For Help, Donate or Volunteer (Google Form) (Los Angeles) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGfypKKirsvUQCX5eVix86nIrTaf5atsnhn8bWxpCRn_lM9Q/viewform

60. Collective Care is our Best Weapon Against COVID-19. WORLDWIDE MUTUAL AID RESOURCE LIST. (Google Doc). Anarchist Agency.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uP49OQGhosfBN4BOYQvyy_Mu3mpCSOYzip13LksC-S8/edit

61. COVID-19 Prison Hotline Donations (Go Fund Me) (USA)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/covid19-prison-hotline?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1 

62. COVID-19 Mutual Aid Initiative: Prison Support. Deeper than Water.

https://deeperthanwater.org/2020/03/17/mass-incarceration-mutual-aid-and-covid-19/ 

63. Demands for the Prison Industrial Complex (Google Drive). Justice Collaborative

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ij398L3VqVUNAJE9kPsPzZ1vPJPkiEqy

N. Disaster Communism/Disaster Communities

64.  The Uses of Disaster. Out of the Woods. Oct. 22, 2018. Commune. https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/ 

65.  Disaster Communism Part 1: Disaster Communities. Out of the Woods. May 8, 2014. Libcom.org.

https://libcom.org/blog/disaster-communism-part-1-disaster-communities-08052014

66.   Disaster Communism Part 2: Communisation and Concrete Utopia. Out of the Woods. May 8, 2014. Libcom.org.

http://libcom.org/blog/disaster-communism-part-2-communisation-concrete-utopia-14052014.

67. From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the Emergency. Woodbine. MArch 22, 2020. ROAR Magazine https://roarmag.org/essays/from-mutual-aid-to-dual-power-in-the-state-of-emergency/