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Son of Baldwin:

“Though workplaces, institutions, and financial sectors have told us that halting and/or erasing debts would totally dismantle the market, yesterday the Italian government announced that they would suspend mortgage payments until the coronavirus crisis has been resolved. Non-profits have also historically discouraged employees’ working from home under the guise that it disrupts work culture, camaraderie, and productivity. This is especially true (and more prevalent) when students/ employees/ volunteers are disabled, Black, and/or poor.

What we know and have always known is the power to pause our debts, from student loans, to parking tickets, to foreclosures, to rent and health care has always been possible. And yet, the systemic barriers that ensure it doesn’t happen are intentional, relegated and static.

While videos of customers fighting for supplies are going viral, employers are rationing cleaning and sanitary supplies that would help protect their employees against contamination and ensure a level of safety for its customers. Capitalism isn’t smart or strategic in the ways that it should be. And it is especially harmful in ways it should not.”

Amber Butts, “Crisis makes clear who can afford to survive (and who cannot)” via Black Youth Project

Crisis makes clear who can afford to survive (and who cannot)

Image description: A rendering from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. a woman is seen from the chest up, eyes closed, hands held up, levitating a mini-world in between her hands, a cosmic landscape in the background.

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