Please register now for the first session in the series, “Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis: Popular Action for Community Solidarity”
The virus crisis has led to widespread failures in healthcare, education, housing, food distribution, and employment. While there have been some efforts to address the impacts in some areas, there’s been a lack of public discussion on the system inadequacies of the social, economic, and political structures that the virus crisis has amplified. In the meantime, many in positions of power, from government officials to corporate directors, are taking measures to impose austerity that further threaten people’s access to healthcare, education, housing, and income. Rather than working to unite people in our common humanity, government officials continue to promote xenophobic and racist ideologies and in response to the uprising against racism, police are responding to peaceful protests with violence and oppression. This forum will provide a space for community members, workers, students, and academics to share perspectives and collaborate on collective actions.
And please stay tuned for future events in this series led by MTA-UMass unions in solidarity with community organizations and students. The series will explore topics not being sufficiently analyzed in mainstream media outlets, such as: the failure of the free-market U.S. healthcare system, neoliberal capitalism, alternative economic models, racial and gendered effects of the crisis, anti-China rhetoric, and system change.
Co-sponsors: Arise for Social Justice, FCCPR, Western Mass Extinction Rebellion, Western Mass Science for the People