The Urban Democracy Lab brings together progressive urbanists, social justice activists, and academics committees to a just urban future. In the midst of the terror and crisis of the coronavirus in NYC, we are joining with new mass movements erupting throughout the city and world. While our city is shut down, hundreds of thousands of people are reaching out to help their neighbors, building online mutual aid networks, demanding adequate and just policies from our public officials, and fighting for their survival from employers and landlords. Moved by these projects, we compiled the resources and links below for the UDL community. Please share widely, take care of yourself and your neighbors, and fight together for a just response to COVID-19.
US Mutual Aid & Organizing Resources
- Coronavirus Resource Kit for Mutual Aid Projects
- Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid
- COVID-19 Mutual Aid & Advocacy Resources
- Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon against COVID-19
- Mutual Aid Board – Common Good
- COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources (Google Drive)
- Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 – Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
- The Tenants Will Win: TANC Pandemic Organizing Guide (on rent strikes)
- Rent Strike 2020
- Universal Rent Suspension Survey – Right to the City Alliance
- One Stop Shop for Resources for Organizers
NYC Mutual Aid & Organizing Resources
- Mutual Aid NYC Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response
- NYC United Against Coronavirus Resources and Information
- NYC-DSA Mutual Aid COVID-19 Relief Fund
- Neighbor Support Network NYC
- NYC COVID-19 Resources Mutual Aid
- NYC COVID-19 Response Fund (for Black folk)
- Emergency COVID Relief for Sex Workers in New York organized by Oz Ma
- Let My People Go – Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
- Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund – Brooklyn Community Foundation
- NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund – New York Community Trust
- NYC Low-Income Artist/Freelancer Relief Fund
- Resources for Undocumented New Yorkers – NYS Youth Leadership Council
- Mutual Aid – Woodbine (Ridgewood)
Community-Specific & Sector-Based National Resources
- COVID-19 Response & Resources – The Justice Collaborative (Legal)
- Domestic Workers’ Coronavirus Care Fund – National Domestic Workers’ Alliance)
- COVID19 Emergency Funding Source – New Economic Coalition
- COVID-19 Resources for worker cooperatives, small businesses, and individuals – US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
- Immune Compromised People In Need
- Tangible Support for Undocumented Communities During COVID-19 – Immigrant Rising
- Queer & Trans Resources in the Time of COVID-19
- Coronavirus Response for the Arts – Springboard
- COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources
- Disaster Relief Fund – Restaurant Opportunities Center
- Service Workers Mutual Aid Fund
- An Open Letter to our Allies in the Solidarity Philanthropy Community – Center for Economic Democracy
- Coronavirus Tech Handbook
- COVID-19 Prison Hotline – Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund for LGBTQI+ BIPOC Folks
- Abolition Action Grocery Fund
Movement Statements & Platforms
- 5 Demands For Emergency COVID-19 Survival – Decolonize This Place
- People’s Bailout
- COVID-19 and Housing / Homelessness – People’s Action
- Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession
- Statement and Resources – New Economy Coalition (NEC)
- Pandemic Inequalities, Pandemic Demands – Plan C (UK)
- Call for Urgent Moratorium on Electricity and Water Shut-Offs – NEC
- How we meet this crisis – University of the Poor
- ACT-UP Demands In Response To COVID-19
- Reclaim Our Homes: Rent/Mortgage Suspension Now! – The Action Network (Petition for NYS)
Public Health Information
- Coronavirus Data Interpretation Skillshare For Activists – Icarus Project
- Public Health Best Practices to Fight Coronavirus in our Apartment Buildings
- World Health Organization
- John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
- Center for Disease Control
- NYS Department of Health
- Imperial College of London COVID-19 Report
- New England Journal of Medicine
- National Institute of Health
- Report from the WHO-China Joint Mission
- Cities for Global Health
Analysis
- Coronavirus Readings by The Syllabus
- Coronavirus Readings
- People Are Fighting the Coronavirus With Mutual Aid Efforts to Help Each Other – Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue
- Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus – Democracy Now!
- Coronavirus Demands Social Distancing and Social Movements. Here’s How To Do Both – Paul Engler, In These Times
- The Only Treatment for Coronavirus is Solidarity – Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Jacobin
- Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China – Chuang
- Resisting Coronavirus – Any Climacus, Mute
- The Monster At the Door – Mike Davis
- Autonomous Groups Are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives to Combat the Coronavirus – It’s Going Down
- Alone Against the Virus – Amy Kapczynski & Gregg Gonsalves, Boston Review
- After the Quarantine, The Flood – Natasha Lennard, Commune
- People’s Coronavirus Response (Facebook Group)
- Leftist Coronavirus News and Analysis (Facebook Group)
- Coronavirus Open Syllabus – Pinko