Resources

In these compiled lists, you will find links and resources that cover a large array of information. From covering general support and information, mutual aid support networks, emergency funds, and mental health details.

This is a moment when people’s anxiety can be greatly increased—and that makes sense given all that is coming at us and happening around us. We know that our health, including our mental health, is inherently political. We offer these resources as part of the Center’s Politicized Healing framework that understands we get to transformative justice when we heal from and dismantle systems of harm while creating new systems of care. Please check out our short workbook, Trauma-Informed Practices During the Coronavirus Pandemic, for support in thinking about how to develop a routine for yourself that can help reduce anxiety and increase resilience. If you are experiencing anxiety, this short workbook provides some tools that you may find helpful.

In response to COVID-19, numerous public health and national security measures are being proposed and implemented across the nation. Historically, states of emergency, mandatory quarantines, and curfews have often been used to expand state control over political and civil freedom. Emergency powers often criminalize movement, freedom of expression, protest, and marginalized communities. Nevertheless, it is important that we know what rights exist to protect ourselves and resist increased policing.

As the new coronavirus spreads through the U.S., Reveal chronicles how it came to California, with the voices of first responders, experts and passengers quarantined on a cruise ship docked in San Francisco Bay. Additionally, hear the story of an African American man who decades ago was shot and killed by a police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Episode 1: Your phone knows if you’re staying at home and it is telling the government. The Verge’s Casey Newton explains how location data is helping fight coronavirus, and why even privacy advocates don’t think that’s such a bad thing.
Episode 2: Does stopping coronavirus require more surveillance? The cost of China’s high-tech response to contain the coronavirus.

This is a difficult time, and most of us are under enormous pressure. We might be experiencing isolation, illness, income loss, fear for loved ones, loss of loved ones, anxiety, and many other painful circumstances. A mad map is a guide we can make for ourselves, usually best worked on in moments were we are feeling more centered or having more capacity, that we can turn to in moments where things go sideways or we feel ourselves slipping into more difficult states.

Wall Street Journal reporters Zusha Elinson and Ben Chapman discuss how the pandemic has changed law and order across the country.

For those interested in understanding the policing responses during the COVID-19 crisis overseas. This is a joint collaboration by Netpol and the Undercover Research Group aiming to collect examples and publish them in daily diary entries, putting them in context by providing some background reading. Now that the government has announced a lockdown of the population backed by police enforcement, this resource intends to monitor the everyday impact of the new policing powers and whether they are used proportionately.

The global spread of COVID-19 has highlighted a longstanding public health emergency. Due to the lack of a public health infrastructure or social safety net in the United States, vulnerable, structurally marginalized, and oppressed people are (and will continue to be) disproportionately harmed during this crisis. This is nowhere more evident than the country’s treatment of criminalized and imprisoned people, who come from communities already subjected to state disinvestment and poor health conditions, and who are put in further danger through their contact with the criminal legal system. These demands, developed by a coalition of organizers across New York, provide a clear and urgent path to free them all and bring our loved ones home from jail, prison, and immigration detention.