Pandemic solidarity : mutual aid during the Covid-19 crisis / edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar, foreword by Rebecca Solnit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Rebecca Solnit -- Introduction / by Marina Sitrin -- About Colectiva Sembrar -- Communal lifeboat : direct democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) / Emre Sahin and Khabat Abbas -- "Capitalism kills, solidarity gives life" : a glimpse of solidarity networks from Turkey / Seyma Özdemir -- Solidarity network in Iraq during Covid-19 : this time the enemy is invisible / Midya Khudhur -- Sharing spaces and crossing borders : voices from Taiwan / Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang -- Standing in solidarity with those who must refuse to keep a social distance : disability activism in South Korea / Ji Young Shin ; translated by Han Gil Jang -- Rethinking minority and mainstream in India / Debarati Roy -- Confronting state authoritarianism : civil society and community-based solidarity in southern Africa / Boaventura Monjane -- On intersectional solidarity in Portugal / Lais Gomes Duarte and Raquel Lima -- Solidarity flourishes under lockdown in Italy / Eleanor Finley -- Solidarity networks in Greece / EP and TP -- Viral solidarity : experiences from the UK / Neil Howard -- Turtle Island / carla bergman and magalí rabasa with Ariella Patchen and Seyma Özdemir -- Argentina : injustices magnified, memories of resistance reactivated / Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese -- On grassroots organizing : excerpts from Brazil / Vanessa Zettler -- Concluding to begin / Colectiva Sembrar.

In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of Covid-19. The world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience - a housewife in Istanbul supports her neighbour in the same way as a teacher in Argentina, a punk in Portland, and a disability activist in South Korea does. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.

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