“Wake up! Wake up humanity! There’s no more time.
Our consciences are shaken by the mere thought of self-destruction
by capitalist, racist, and patriarchal depredation.”
- Berta Cáceres

“The most misleading cliche about Covid19 is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it arrives. Before long, this will cause social turmoil, up to and including uprisings and revolutions.”
(Andreas Kluth)

Unless one means “we are all in this together” literally, like during the times of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave-based economies in the European-colonized lands of the Americas, then no we are not “all in this together”. Covid19 – and its varying direct and indirect impacts on humans inside nations and between nations across the planet – is exposing profound fault-lines of wealth and power / exploitation-poverty and powerlessness, and of racism.

What a great salute. Folks in Burlington, Vermont, driving by the home of Bernie and Jane Sanders, honking, hooting and hollering their thanks, even in these times of Covid19.

Rights Action’s priority work right now is providing emergency support funds to as many partner groups as possible in Guatemala and Honduras, and to send funds to a number of forced migrants/ refugee claimants from Honduras and Guatemala, stuck in terrible limbo in the Mexico and the U.S.

'For export’ sugarcane industry in Honduras:
Corruption and repression “business as usual”

Rights Action is providing COVID response funds to our partner groups in Honduras and Guatemala, that are taking the lead on trying to save lives in their own communities – given the corrupt, exploitative nature of their military-backed, ‘open for global business’ regimes that have no fundamental concern for the well-being of their majority populations.

Since March 15, 2020, Rights Action has been sending small grants (your donations) to community groups we have supported for years, courageous Indigenous and non-Indigenous people involved in land, human rights and environmental defense struggles related to mining and hydro-electric dams, tourism, and the ‘for export’ production of sugar cane and African palm.

ICE Detainees Are Being Quarantined
A leaked document about the Department of Homeland Security’s Covid-19 response suggests that the crisis has made its way to border detention facilities.

OFRANEH is weaving networks of community self-protection. To date, 14 Garifuna communities have organized COVID-19 Attention Centers, providing information and preparing communities for what is coming. Community organizing is the only safeguard we have.