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Human Rights
In Absence of State Action, Organizers Help Homeless People During Pandemic
Amid systemic failures, mutual aid efforts to address people’s survival needs are ramping up across the world.
Emergency COVID-19 Laws May Become Permanent Features of the Security Landscape
Pandemic containment is giving states an excuse to extend modes of surveillance and control indefinitely.
Duterte Threatens to Kill Citizens Who Disobey COVID-19 Lockdown in Philippines
Duterte has ordered soldiers to shoot to kill residents if they resist a strict lockdown on the island of Luzon.
We Must Cancel Rent Nationwide and Demand Safe Housing for All
Demanding housing during this crisis involves taking on the capitalist state.
Amid Pandemic, Homeless New Yorkers Demand Refuge in Vacant Apartments, Hotels
Tens of thousands of homeless people in New York City have been left with no way to shelter in place.
How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague
Kelly Hayes talks with Shane Burley about organizing for survival and the analysis of state power we need right now.
DOJ Is Using COVID-19 Crisis to Push for Expansive Emergency Powers
The Department of Justice is asking Congress for sweeping emergency powers including the suspension of habeas corpus.
Punitive Measures Worsen the Homelessness Crisis. We Must Guarantee Housing.
Fortunately, many cities are adopting strategies that are geared toward helping people over judging them.
Our Responses to COVID-19 Must Center Disability Justice
Here’s how we can turn these unprecedented and slapdash coronavirus measures into actual disability justice.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis of Capitalism
COVID-19 is another blow to the house of cards that is the existence of the marginalized.