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An-Nas in Solidarity with BLM and Anti-Racism Protests
An-Nas stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the people protesting across the United States following the recent murder of George Floyd by a police officer who was called to an Arab-American owned convenience store. The murder of George Floyd is one on a long list of other Black Americans who have had their lives stolen by racist violence at the hands of police, citizens, and carceral institutions throughout centuries of slavery, segregation, police brutality, and a racist justice system in the United States.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed my conviction that we cannot continue to consume with reckless abandon on a finite planet. A larger crisis looms ahead. The current pandemic feels like a mere rehearsal for the massive disruption to come. Catastrophic climate change is a reality. The current pandemic has brought the fragility of our interconnected systems into stark relief. There’s no sugarcoating this.
Our lack of preparedness has cast a dark shadow. We are living in an apocalyptic moment. Apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokalyptein which means to uncover, disclose or reveal. The pandemic has revealed the fragility of our interconnected systems and the cascading challenges that lie ahead.
At the Intersection of Coronavirus and Capitalism
A few days ago, prominent Jordanian businessman Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, said in an interview that “we should not allow our economic system to collapse in order to save lives. We lose lives at wars; let’s consider fighting the coronavirus pandemic a war.” Similar implications were echoed by Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, when he vowed to “help businesses recover from this pandemic because it’s not their fault,” all the while making no economic recovery plan that includes helping small businesses recover from the pandemic. What these businessmen and politicians mean to say is that we are not willing to spend our money to save lives.
#Coronavirus | How to Help Strangers
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House declared a state of emergency, unsettling millions of people living in the United States. The pandemic has exposed the deep flaws in many social safety nets, such as housing, single-payer healthcare system, adequate sick leave, and remote accessibility for schools, work places, and events, that activists have been fighting for as fundamental human rights.
While for some, the transition to social isolation has been easy, there are many who have become more vulnerable or even in danger. At An-Nas, we value the importance of community and forming coalitions to create a safer and more empathetic and just world. So, we put together a list of ways you can use to help those most affected.
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