[WSMDiscuss] Life under Coronavirus Lockdown

[Tord Björk]

Thankyou for this useful update
Tord Björk

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On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:13 PM Umakant via WSM-Discuss <
wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends
>
> Greetings! Life under coronavirus lockdown has been made unbearable for
> quite a large number of people around the globe. India too faces its own
> unique set of problems. But people who were and are still margninalized in
> different parts of the world face several kinds of discrimination,
> exclusion and even are being labeled as carriers of the coronavirus.
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> How things would unfold in coming days and months remain uncertain.
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> Do pass it on to others in your circle/network.
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> *Migrant workers and their long march to uncertainty*
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> Omar Rashid, Jatin Anand and Ajeet Mahale, The Hindu, April 04, 2020
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> https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-coronavirus-lockdown-migrant-workers-and-their-long-march-to-uncertainty/article31251952.ece?homepage=true
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> Blamed for leaving their homes in defiance of the lockdown, hungry, and
> cash-strapped, migrants struggle in packed shelters, while those who
> managed to reach their native places face hostility.
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> *Bihar Finally Begins Screening of 1.8 Lakh Migrant Workers for COVID-19*
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> Mohd. Imran Khan, NewsClick.in, April 04, 2020
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> https://www.newsclick.in/bihar-finally-begins-screening-1.8-lakh-migrant-workers-COVID-19
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> On Saturday, the government launched a large-scale screening test of close
> to 1.8 lakh migrant workers, as per official figures. Unofficial figures
> doing the rounds say more than 2 lakh migrant workers returned to Bihar
> after March 22.
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> *The Pandemic is a Portal*
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> Arundhatie Roy, Financial Times, April 03, 2020
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> https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
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> How coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world,
> should do next
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> *Coronavirus: Slovakia to test Roma community*
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> BBC, April 03, 2020
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> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52156976?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world/europe&link_location=live-reporting-story
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> Slovakia is to begin testing members of the Roma community for coronavirus
> on Friday.
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> *COVID-19: UN human rights chief “distressed” over plight of India’s
> internal migrants, welcomes measures to limit impact*
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> OHCHR, Geneva, April 02, 2020
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> https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25767&LangID=E
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> UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet said today she was distressed by
> the plight of millions of internal migrants affected by the sudden
> announcement of a lockdown in India. She welcomed subsequent measures to
> address their situation but noted that pervasive challenges remain.
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> *Roma: Europe’s Neglected Coronavirus Victim *
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> Stephan Müller, Fikrija Tair, Bashkim Ibishi and Dragan Gracanin,
> Balkaninsight.com, April 1, 2020
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> https://balkaninsight.com/2020/04/01/roma-europes-neglected-coronavirus-victims/
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> Squeezed into settlements and cut off from healthcare and sanitation, Roma
> communities are especially vulnerable in the face of COVID-19. Helping them
> is in everyone’s interests.
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> *Don’t call us corona. The virus can’t be an excuse to be racist *
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> Angellica Aribam, Times of India, March 29 2020
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> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/dont-call-us-corona-the-virus-cant-be-an-excuse-to-be-racist/
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> As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread, reports of racial attacks on
> Chinese and other South-East Asian people across the world are becoming
> rampant. In India too, there has been a surge in racism against people
> hailing from the northeastern region.
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> *Northeastern Citizens Come Under Attack Amid Coronavirus Panic *
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> India Today, March 28, 2020
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyj-pU-lqG0
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> People from the Northeastern states of India living in Delhi have alleged
> that they are being racially targeted and are being labelled as "Corona".
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> With Regards
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> Umakant, Ph. D
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> New Delhi
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> *My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have
> faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose
> our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the
> fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For
> ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It
> is the battle of reclamation of human personality. B.R.Ambedkar*
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