How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism
Event Information
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
https://naomiklein.org/
Astra Taylor
https://www.whatisdemocracy.info/
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
http://www.keeangataylor.com/
Lia Rose
Haymarket Books
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
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The Leap
Debt Collective
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Democratic Socialists of America
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Organizer Haymarket Books
Organizer of How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism
Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, international left.
We take inspiration and courage from our namesakes, the Haymarket Martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. Their 1886 struggle for the eight-hour day – which gave us May Day, the international workers’ holiday – reminds workers around the world that ordinary people can organize and struggle for their own liberation. These struggles continue today across the globe—struggles against oppression, exploitation, poverty, and war.
