Transformation

What History Can Tell Us About Today’s Coronavirus Pandemic

May 1, 2020 Veronika Hachenbroch, Spiegel.de. Educate! COVID-19, Health Care, Pandemic, Transformation

All too often, this is the fate of Cassandra. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the U.S., explained the situation graphically in 2006: If you live in the Caribbean, climate scientists will tell you that a hurricane is inevitably going to come. They cannot tell you the date, and they cannot tell you how powerful the hurricane is going to be, but it is very important that you prepare for it. It is exactly the same with a pandemic. But what did we do? Following a brief phase of anxiety after SARS and avian influenza, we forgot all about the pandemic threat! So now we don't have common pandemic policies in the European Union, the World Health Organization is underfunded, and we are lacking hospital surge capacities.

Out Of The Coronavirus Tragedy May Come Hope Of A More Just Society

April 26, 2020 Michael D. Higgins, SocialEurope.eu. Create! Ireland, Pandemics, Solidarity, Transformation

The global loss of life and disruption to our daily lives resulting from the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented in living memory. We have learned through tragedy that we have a shared, globalised vulnerability common to all humanity. We are learning how we, as a matter of urgency, must make changes to improve resilience in a range of essential areas: employment, healthcare, housing. We have been forced to recognise our dependence on our public-sector frontline workers, and the state’s broader role in mitigating this crisis and saving lives. The coronavirus has magnified the scale of our existing social crises and has proved, if ever proof were required, how government can act decisively when the will is there.

The Pandemic Is An Opportunity For Major Change

April 22, 2020 George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! COVID-19, Global Recession, Pandemic, Transformation

The pandemic is many things for many people. For a lot of activists, it offers both frustration and opportunity. It’s frustrating not to be able to stage a sit-in or picket line. The opportunity, though, is the shake-up in politics and society: History shows many examples of when a convulsive historic event altered conditions in such a way as to promote positive change. That happened with the Great Depression in the United States and World War II in the U.K. Both societies took a leap forward in terms of progressive social, economic and cultural change. It’s not that anyone would wish for the shake-up, given its enormous pain and suffering. But massive history-making events don’t ask our opinion. They are what they are. The question is, what do we make of them? In Christopher Fry’s anti-war play, “A Sleep of Prisoners,” a character says, “Affairs are now soul size.”

COVID-19 Chronicles: How The World Will Change After The Coronavirus

April 7, 2020 Frank Barat, Popular Resistance Resistance Report Activism, COVID-19, Transformation

COVID-19 Chronicles are a series of interviews and conversations with personalities, analysts, doctors, thinkers, activists and politicians on the meaning of the coronavirus crisis and its impacts on the world’s politics. Eventually, we will get past the virus. But will we get past the problems the virus has identified? How will the world change? A line in history is being drawn by COVID-19, how will the post-COVID world be different from pre-COVID. The interviews are conducted by Frank Barat. He is an activist, journalist, and producer. He has worked on books with Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Ken Loach. His latest with Angela Davis "Freedom is a Constant struggle" is out now.

Israel’s Settler Railway Could Be Going Nowhere Fast

May 28, 2019 Ali Abunimah, Electronicintifada.net Resist! Human Rights, Israel, Transformation, Unions

Trade unions and human rights organizations in France are celebrating as a victory the withdrawal of train manufacturer Alstom from the Jerusalem light rail. Meanwhile, it has also been confirmed that a Greek-led consortium failed to submit a bid. France’s Alstom confirmed to media last week that it had dropped plans to bid on the extension of the Israeli railway that links settlements in the West Bank to each other and to Jerusalem. Israel’s construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is a war crime.

Transformation: Means And Measure Of Revolutionary Change

January 31, 2017 Richard Moser, www.counterpunch.org Create! Change, Revolution, Transformation

By Richard Moser for Counter Punch - Truly massive movements take shape around affirmations of goodness most powerfully represented by the promise of universal values. Our task is to fulfill this promise, recognizing that we doom our efforts to win people’s support and allegiance if we too often rely solely on criticism, resistance, and opposition. It is far, far better thing that we be authors of a new world rather than critics of the old one. If we envision revolution as radical departure or complete discontinuity from the existing world we are likely to both overlook real change and leave the millions behind. A transformative movement works on culture and works with history.

Creating Truth & Transformation Drawing On MLK + 50

January 5, 2017 Rabbi Arthur Waskow, www/theshalomcenter.org Strategize! Donald Trump, MLK, Transformation

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow for the Shalom Center. The election brought an unexpected outpouring of the “Old American left-outs” – blue-collar white men and women –-- into a moment’s triumph. We have already seen a first response from the “New American left-outs” in the spontaneous demonstrations that erupted all over America within 24 hoursof the election, and in many commitments to resistance and opposition that have arisen since. We need to crystallize this outburst into a broadly embracing movement of movements that can pursue acts of nonviolent, loving, assertive, and empowering creativity. Acts that reach across the present barricades to make sense to both the “Old” and “New” Americas, to nurture the seeds of a new society and to challenge institutions that are domineering and destructive.

Chomsky The Desire for Transformation Is Bubbling Below the Surface

April 17, 2016 Noam Chomsky, www.thenextsystem.org Educate! Capitalism, Next System Project, Noam Chomsky, Transformation

By Noam Chomsky for the Next System Project. Philosopher, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky recently spoke about his experiences in campus activism and his vision of a just society to help inaugurate the Next System Project’s ambitious new teach-ins initiative taking place across the country. An initial signatory to the Next System statement, Chomsky explores the connections between culture, mass movements, and economic experiments—which in “mutually reinforcing” interaction, may build toward a next system more quickly than you may think. Chomsky: "The political system was never really responsive to the mass of the population, but it’s now changed to the point where it’s a virtual plutocracy. . . Capitalism responded to the system-changing ambitions of the 19th century labor movement with state and paramilitary violence."

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