Corona Chronicles

Mamadou Mignane Diouf, Coordinator of Forum Social Sénégalais, reflects on the precariuos situation of minority groups in Senegal. 
President Macron has acknowledged the link between Covid and the climate crisis, and the need for largescale measures in response. Emerging alliances demand that he move beyond lofty rhetoric, and that the French government take up the challenge of the socio-ecological transformation the moment demands. The world is currently facing a pandemic crisis in the form of the coronavirus, and France is one of the most affected countries with more than 130.000 cases and 24.000 deaths as of this writing. The Gilets Jaunes slogan comparing the end of ...
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For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Marga Ferré, President of FEC and Member of the United Left Board, gives an update from Madrid, the hotspot for coronavirus in Spain.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Enikő Vincze, Professor le Sociology and activist for the right to housing, talks about the difficult situation of Roma during the corona crisis.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Sam O. Ajufoh, Executive Director of Action For Community Development, reports from Nigeria. 
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Dr Amy Niang, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, reports from Johannesburg and presents us the motivations behind the Declaration of African Intellectuals concerning Covid-19 crisis, an open letter signed by her and numerous other intellectuals.

Solidarity in the countryside

Juliane Hartnack, Marcos Paz
Corona Chronicles from ArgentinaHere, the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires blends into the countryside.152 years ago, the vice president that gave this Argentinian district its name, died during a cholera pandemic. Today, Covid-19 puts the world on alert, and the province of Buenos Aires on standby. Due to the national lockdown that was declared by president Alberto Fernández on 19 March and has since then been extended several times, the rural roads of Marcos Paz are empty, far and wide. Only during the opening times which are strictly limited, locals - and ...
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For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Second video from Eva Milsted Enoksen after Denmark lifted some of its lockdown restrictions.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. We are grateful to have received a video from India. Project Manager Tauqueer Ali Sabri, who is working for RLS South Asia since 2015, reports about the sensitive circumstances in his country.f
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Mel Corry of Trademark Belfast talks about responses to coronavirus both sides of the Irish border.