Criminalizing COVID-19

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">We speak with <a href="https://twitter.com/alexmcclelland">Alexander McClelland</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ZoeDodd">Zoë Dodd</a> about criminalization in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, they published “<a href= "https://www.alexandermcclelland.ca/postervirus-1">An Anarchist Response to Hep C & HIV</a>.” We spoke about the Canadian healthcare system, the problem with government approaches to “Public Health,” Hep C & HIV criminalization and what it can tell us about what’s happening in the present crisis.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">Resources:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/TorontoOPS">Toronto Overdose Prevention Society</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;">“<a href= "https://nowtoronto.com/news/coronavirus-we-cant-police-our-way-out-of-pandemic/">We can’t police our way out of a pandemic</a>” by Alexander McClelland</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><a href= "https://www.policingthepandemic.ca/">Interactive map</a> of charges and violations related to COVID-19</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/cathyacrowe">Cathy Crowe</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><a href= "https://howtohavesexinapolicestate.tumblr.com/">How to Have Sex in a Police State</a></p>