Mar

How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism

Event description

An online teach-in with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

About this Event

Please join an online teach-in with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a musical performance by Lia Rose

Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5 PM Eastern

Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Leap, Debt Collective, and Democratic Socialists of America

The event will begin at 5:00 PM EDT (2:00 PM PDT) and will be streamed live on Youtube through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0

The current crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and inequalities of our economic and social system.

We are in a battle of visions for how we’re going to respond to this crisis. We will either be catapulted backward to an even more brutal winner-takes-all system — or this will be a wake-up call.

Ideas that were dismissed as too radical just a week ago are starting to seem like the only reasonable path to get out of this crisis and prevent future ones.

We need to use every tool that we have that allows us to hear each other’s voices, to read each other’s words, to see each other’s faces, even if it’s just on screens, to stay organized and stay connected. We have to create spaces where we’re able to deliberate and strategize about what it means to protect our neighbors, our rights, and our planet.

We have to have the confidence to say this is the moment when we change everything.

Further info:

Watch Naomi Klein’s latest video at The Intercept, “Coronavirus Capitalism — And How to Beat it”

Naomi Klein

@NaomiAKlein

https://naomiklein.org/

Astra Taylor

@astradisastra

https://www.whatisdemocracy.info/

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

@KeeangaYamahtta

http://www.keeangataylor.com/