Organising in the time of COVID19

TODAY April 2 at 1pm (GMT+1) Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist,  author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012 he was awarded the Rafto Prize. He is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization.

An amazing interview — "what is needed is building community not creating distance"

We discuss the impact of the COVID19 epidemic on the Algerian uprisings  with Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian scholar-activist,  commentator, researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity  Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA).

Sally Kane talks about the role of community radio stations in the USA.  Sally Kane is Chief Executive of the US National Federation of Community  Broadcasters. She has twenty years of experience in the field of  community radio. Based on her travels across the USA, she will speak  about the conditions facing people in rural USA

S'bu Zikode, founder and former president of Abahlali base Mjondolo, the shackdwellers movement in South Africa, speaks to Firoze Manji about the challenges of organising amongst shack-dwellere in South Africa in a time when there are attacks by police on settlements of shackdwellers and in the time of lockdown in the face of COVID19

An enlightening discussion with Gacheke Gachi from the Mathare Social  Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, about the situation facing  shack-dwellers in the face of COVID-19.

Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson and co-editor of Jackson Rising: the struggle for economic democracy and black self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi.

Kali served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding  in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS.  His focus in this role was supporting cooperative development, the  introduction of eco-friendly and carbon reduction methods of operation,  and the promotion of human rights and international relations for the  city.

Here he speaks about the challenges of organising in the time of COVID19.