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17/04/20
Author: 
Abrahm Lustgarten
Patients were quickly evacuated from Feather River Hospital as it burned during the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, on Nov. 8, 2018. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

[BC has wild fires and dry creekbeds in mid-April. Come fire season, where does one evacuate to? Hurricanes would be even worse!]

April 15, 2020

The next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic currently raging through the country. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation?

17/04/20
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International Viewpoint

16 April 2020

This statement was issued by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 16 April 2020.

17/04/20
Author: 
Alfredo Saad-Filho
Failing austerity

April 17, 2020

Suddenly, we find ourselves in a transformed world. Empty streets, closed shops, unusually clear skies, and climbing death tolls: something unprecedented is unfolding before our eyes.

17/04/20
Author: 
Chris Campbell
Extinction Rebellion protesters at Trans Mountain's Burnaby tank farm. Submitted

APRIL 15, 2020

Trans Mountain’s tank farm in Burnaby was the scene of a protest today (Wednesday), with the company accused of not following social distancing measures amid the COVID-19 crisis.

17/04/20
Author: 
Yeva Nersisyan and L Randall Wray
 ‘Buying into the deficit myth, for generations we have been living below our means – paralyzed by the belief that finance is the constraint.’ Photograph: Evan Vucci/A

17 Apr 2020

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17/04/20
Author: 
Rural America In These Times
Chicken in a business suit - (Image: Farming Pathogens)
JUNE 9, 2017
 
The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic to emerge directly out of livestock or poultry or indirectly out of wild animals subjected to Big Ag-driven deforestation is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it.
 
17/04/20
Author: 
Macdonald Stainsby
Photograph Source: Jernej Furman – CC BY 2.0

We all have this feeling right now. Fear, sometimes verging on terror, and the main strategy to stay human is to never panic. Still, there is a lot of reason to be greatly afraid. Covid-19 has passed into every country, and most people on earth are on some variant of lockdown. The psychology of it is immense. There is an invisible enemy, somewhere out there, and it is threatening immediately our families and loved ones, and it has removed all outdoor life, socialization, schooling, etc.

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