RISING
FOR A POST
COVID-19
WORLD
The Covid-19 virus has in a short time blown open and revealed the destructive veins of neo-liberal capitalist racist patriarchy . With each day , we see that the majority of people who are dying are those who have been historically exploited , oppressed and marginalized by poverty , racism , xenophobia . The virus is revealing the violent , broken , greed and growth systems that we have been both tolerating and forced to live with for far too long .
As we envision a post Covid-19 world , we now MUST ASK ourselves ; “ what is essential ”, “ who is essential ”, ‘ what would it mean to live with just what is essential ”, and “ how would we value , protect and uplift those who are doing the essential work ”?
The Earth , most essential to all life , is the most violated . Indigenous people of the earth have taught , embodied and been calling for the true alignment of humanity and the earth .
Across the planet , the majority of front line workers , health care workers , home care workers , domestic workers , farmworkers – are women . As with the EARTH , they are the least valued , underpaid and least protected . Health workers without necessary personal protective equipment ( PPE ) despite putting themselves at risk every day , food and agricultural workers providing the food on our tables while they cannot feed their own families , the list goes on .
Now is the moment for our movement and movements across the planet to open the window to a new world , to refuse to go back to a “ normal ” that was never fair or functional for the majority of people .
It is up to us to envision and demand this future as we collectively rise in global solidarity and organized creative resistance .