' Long before coronavirus hit, medical care in prisons was substandard. Conditions inside and the land many prisons are on is toxic. Many facilities are old, dilapidated and unsanitary...I hear about black mold, brown water and food unfit for consumption. The combination of conditions and prisoners increased susceptibility to chronic illnesses brings us beyond crisis to extreme urgency.

– Shandre Delaney, Pennsylvania (Human Rights Coalition - Fed Up!) '

Poverty Amidst Pandemic: Everybody’s Got A Right to Live Digital Mass Meeting includes testifiers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan shining ' a light on the plight, fight and insight of those leading this movement, and how crucial this work is during the double pandemic of COVID-19 and systemic poverty. '

Joined by PPC Co-Chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II & Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and Special Guests Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and Dr. Sharelle Barber of the PPC’s COVID-19 Health Justice Advisory Committee.

https://youtu.be/jNdHuvqljcg

' What I love about the art of photography is that images can produce dialogue and the viewers contemplate and experience the images in their own way.
After many years working as a photographer and teaching artist, I am certain that collaborating with the community and sharing my knowledge with the next generation of potential artists and photographers will remain a key component of my mission.
My true passion is to expose the community to the arts and to teach them how to use photography as well as video, as a means of expression, empowerment, and a tool for social engagement and change. '

Curtis Reaves Design Studio
https://www.curtisreaves.com/about

By what steps do we restore economic independence, media privilege, and professional authority to survivors of severe disability, violence, and sex trafficking?

Upcoming Daily: Intuitive Public Media, 7am Eastern.

Each day, we ask this question: By what steps do we restore economic independence, media privilege, and professional authority to survivors of severe disability, violence, and sex trafficking?

This daily community group is sponsored by the courageous compassion of our community members.

All participants welcome. No money required (but donations appreciated, https://Intuitive.community/donations).

Email grow@Intuitive.community for access info and how to participate with the group from outside our scheduled time frame.

Arnold Mindell writes,

' RACISM in the USA (and hatred towards minority peoples worldwide) is a painful problem with historical roots. For world change, if you notice a tendency in yourself or others to hurt minorities, please S T O P IT....STOP ACTING SUPERIOR TO OTHERS. AND INSTEAD LEARN TO RELATE and SUPPORT OTHERS FOR A BETTER WORLD '

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3538488799499209&id=116357551712368

Vesper Moore's post, including this article by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu vehemently supported by community members:

' We need more peer support and community response networks. We need to put power back into the hands of the people. We need the people most impacted to not only give input but to run and be responsible for the inception of all system services. We need those who are marginalized to take the lead in each community not out of expectation or tokenization but humanization.

“Replace the cops with mental health workers!” is a really well-intentioned statement, but the current mental health system is also a white-dominated, violent, coercive, and unaccountable structure that disproportionately harms people of color.” — Morgan M. Page '

https://medium.com/@stefkaufman/we-dont-need-cops-to-become-social-workers-we-need-peer-support-b8e6c4ffe87a

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2667570800186841&id=100008018411161

Zoom meeting @ 0830a Eastern today, information about halfway down the page: https://pendlehill.org/explore/worship/

With Kimberlé Crenshaw: https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1271759281281470464?s=19

' If this plan sounds skeletal, Gregory says that’s by design. ”It gets filled in appropriate to the region that we’re trying to reach,” she explains. “As we know, viruses, like racism, have different expressions in different regions, and that’s how the public health approach can be so incredibly appropriate for racism. Because we know that racism — just like a virus — doesn’t look the same in Philly as it does in L.A. It doesn’t express in the same way. And to address it, we need regionally appropriate interventions.”

But there is one consistent aspect of all of Gregory’s plans, regardless of region: that the work must be done with love and compassion. This means not only being able to sit face-to-face with a clinician and getting human-to-human contact, it also involves recognizing the humanity in medicine and health by telling and listening to personal stories, so others are able to put faces on an otherwise overwhelming systemic problem. '

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/racism-public-health-crisis-1014162