Se pueden trazar muchos paralelismos entre el enfoque de los gobiernos con respecto a la guerra mundial contra el terrorismo y el tipo de respuestas que han adoptado para hacer frente a la pandemia de COVID-19. Ellas incluyen la restricción al movimiento de las personas, el cierre de fronteras, el aumento de la vigilancia y el encarcelamiento y la exclusión de quienes son considerados un riesgo... Read more
There are many parallels between the approach of governments to the Global War on Terror, and the kind of responses we have seen to the Covid-19 pandemic. These include restriction on movement, the shutting of borders, increased surveillance and incarceration, and an othering of those perceived as risky and to be controlled. Instead of fostering an environment of solidarity and care, coercive... Read more
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Last month, the mayors of Barcelona, Budapest, Warsaw, Paris and other major cities sent an open letter to the EU institutions, recommending that cities should be given direct access to funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the EU’s corona crisis financing package. This was one of the key issues debated in the opening panel on ‘the role of municipalist cities after the C... Read more
Lucia Martín, counselor at Barcelona City Hall and a previous housing activist, kicked off the session by sharing the observation that COVID-19 and the mandate to stay at home has turned houses into extremely important spaces. At the same time, however, rents in many European cities are rising to astronomical heights. Thus, there is a need to change the regulation of housing prices―B... Read more
Image by MTST Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The combined wealth of the poorer half of Brazil's population, some 100 million people, is less than the combined fortune of its six richest individuals. Fully 16 million people – roughly equivalent to the population of Cameroon or the Netherlands – live below the poverty line. With 51% of tax receipts coming from consump... Read more
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Video of Webinar: Building an internationalist response to Coronavirus The panel featured the following guests: Sonia Shah, author of Pandemic: Tracking contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2017) Luis Ortiz Hernandez, public health professor in UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico. Expert on social and economic health inequities. Benny Kuruvilla, Head of India Office, Focus on the Gl... Read more
El presente análisis es el resultado de una conversación entre los trabajadores y trabajadoras del TNI sobre las múltiples dimensiones de la pandemia de COVID-19, basada en los conocimientos de organizaciones aliadas y amigas. Esperamos que ayude a entender algunas de las interconexiones entre los diversos componentes de esta compleja emergencia sanitaria que aún se está desarrollando, y que s... Read more
