Comrades, stop playing ‘normal’
by Maarten Steenhagen

#CovidIsNotOver #LeftistsForPrecautions

"eugenics requires mass support to succeed. Really, socialists shouldn’t be giving it that support! And yet, here we are…"

https://msteenhagen.medium.com/comrades-stop-playing-normal-b633933de149

Rethinking 'Back to Normal' in the Pandemicine

Organizers of events need to take COVID precautions into account and make clear their provisions for safer access, disability solidarity, and community health & safety.

#CovidIsNotOver
#NotMild
#LeftistsForPrecautions

Audio and text at
https://kboo.fm/media/115259-rethinking-back-normal-pandemicine

This week I responded to two event announcements from groups I've been involved with, and asked what their covid precautions for the event were going to be, and sent them information about why there should be precautions and what those might look like. In both cases the reponses were positive (though not yet definite--going to be discussed at next organizing meetings).

We can push our comrades to do better.

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

https://spore.social/@emeritrix/110108861164834785

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths, by Mia Mingus

#CovidIsNotOver
#DisabilitySolidarity
#LeftistsForPrecautions

"Pandemics, climate change, pollution and toxins have tilted the scales and upped the ante that disability is our collective future.... Individual safety by itself is a myth. There is no individual safety without collective safety and collective safety requires that no one is safe unless everyone is safe."

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
by Mia Mingus

#CovidIsNotOver
#DisabilitySolidarity
#LeftistsForPrecautions

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
by Mia Mingus

#CovidIsNotOver
#DisabilitySolidarity
#LeftistsForPrecautions

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence

by Mia Mingus

#CovidIsNotOver
#DisabilitySolidarity
#LeftistsForPrecautions

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/

Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 2

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"May we re-member and re-embody the knowing that resisting abled supremacy is a love practice. Reducing community transmission in the spirit of collective responsibility is a love practice that is liberatory to every bodymind where abledness is temporary."

https://www.itsjiyounkim.com/blog/love-ethic-in-a-pandemic-2

Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Pt 1

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"Given that abled supremacy is normalizing disabled death, what is needed to resist the disposability of the most marginalized, such as poor and working class, disabled, queer and trans, [BIPOC] in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic?"

https://www.itsjiyounkim.com/blog/love-ethic-in-a-pandemic-1

a thread on ableism in the UK queer community from activist https://twitter.com/SaliWho

"Due to abandonment during the AIDS crisis, queer activists perfected harm reduction.

If you can give out condoms, you can give out masks at the door with a flyer explaining why they’re vital for survival and solidarity.

You can open windows. Get an air filter. Meet outside."

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1641184252929736712.html

Ableism Is Oppression. We Need Disability Justice.

by Mecca Monarch,Truthout

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"Shifting the focus from the individual to the many oppressive forces against us is at the heart of disability justice, an ongoing activist legacy that we have at our disposal for our collective survival."

"Practice disability justice however you can, whatever chance you get. This is our collective lifeline, whether you’re disabled or not."

https://truthout.org/articles/im-immunocompromised-i-know-ableism-is-oppression-we-need-disability-justice/

Let them Eat Plague!

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"Not only have [experts] failed [to convey truth and give guidance] they have engaged in an active disinformation campaign dedicated to making the pandemic “disappear”. This has not been the result of a classic caricature of conspiracy... What we’re actually witnessing is the quiet collusion of class interest.

https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2023/01/09/let-them-eat-plague/

DSA Disability Working Group
has proposed three resolutions for DSA's 2023 Convention!

https://linktr.ee/DSADisability

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

300 signatures from DSA members needed by April 14th!
DSA Members: sign and share with others!

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/disability-working-group-resolutions-for-dsa-convention-2023?source=direct_link&

Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?
by Raia Small

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"We’ve seen the triumph of a capitalist ideology that tells us that if we get sick, we should continue to work, and if we die or become disabled, it’s our own fault. To challenge the ruling class who have made record profits over the last two years and the political parties who manage affairs for them, we need to organize collective action that builds bridges"

https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/why-has-the-left-deprioritized-covid/

Keep Us Safe

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

https://twitter.com/SultanReina/status/1637907446252335109?s=20

We Keep Us Safe

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

As Queer Spaces Return to “Normal,” Disabled LGBTQ+ People Are Being Left Behind

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

“If we're not thinking about the idea of collective liberation in all of our activism, then what are we doing?” says Wilder. “I want to live in a world where I care about you and you care about me and that we do things to make sure we can have the healthiest and happiest existence while we're here.”

https://www.them.us/story/queer-spaces-covid-disability-disabled-creating-change-conference

Advanced Covid FAQ
from the Jewish Covid Resilience Network

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"Envisioning an equitable, sustainable, hopeful future for our communities, based in Jewish values."

https://www.covidresilience.org/advanced-covid-faq

Don’t look away from the implicit eugenics of “living with COVID”

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

'“Collective responsibility” poses an ideological threat to the Late Capitalist order; it had to be seen as a drastic temporary measure....being a leftist means to carve out values and principles of intersectional solidarity against social injustices—against the common current....Organized action on the Left is both a moral imperative and our only hope.'

https://rabble.ca/health/dont-look-away-from-the-implicit-eugenics-of-living-with-covid/

"The fascistic core of health supremacism is the idea that those who are healthy are somehow ‘better’ people, and that society may and must protect their interests and flourishing (rather than [that of] members of society at large)"

#LeftistsForPrecautions
#CovidIsNotOver

"Do you shrug when someone is not able to access the meeting you organised due to a health condition? ... Do you go barefaced even when people around you mask up? Stop doing those things."

https://msteenhagen.medium.com/loathe-fascism-then-dont-be-a-health-supremacist-c8841acdf69